Political Documentary Movies

In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various...

Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers an alarming global...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in...

Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his...

A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in...

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing,...

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the...

Crump's mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking...

In 2020, the USA experienced a multiple catastrophe: No other country in the world was hit so badly by the coronavirus pandemic, the economic slump...

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president...

A portrait of Argentine libertarian politician Javier Milei.

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

A look at the role of the Buckeye State in the 2004 Presidential Election.

While much of the world struggles to keep the planet going, a frighteningly large group of American fundamentalist Christians are working to promote...

An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.