Subgenre Sampler
Sociology: 249 Films to Buy & Rent
- My America (2011)
- Dir. Peter Hegedus
- Documentarian Peter Hegedus draws on his unusual upbringing – as a child of socialist Hungary who used movies to form his image of the United…
- Samsara (2011)
- Dir. Ron Fricke
- The director of BARAKA expands our minds with another impressive, visually astonishing meditation on global spirituality and the human experience,…
- Young Ones, The (2011)
- The latest in a series of age and era–based social experiments, this BBC documentary asks six elderly celebrities – among them, cricket…
- Babies (2010)
- Dir. Thomas Balmes
- The first year ahead of four newly born infants from different parts of the world (Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and California) forms the irresistible…
- Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (TV Series) (2010)
- The lives and wedding celebrations of Britain's outcast gypsy communities are documented, warts and all, in this loud and proud social anthropology,…
- Catfish (2010)
- Dir. Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
- Astonishing documentary follows the interactions between a New York–based photographer and a young woman from rural Michigan who make contact…
- Digital Nation (digital_nation) (2010)
- Dir. Rachel Dretzin
- From the maker of GROWING UP ONLINE, this is another quality PBS documentary about the complexities of modern culture. The focus is how the web and…
- Faces of America (2010)
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the cultural and ethnic roots behind America today in this salient social documentary. Participants keen to share their…
- Freakonomics (2010)
- Dir. Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Heidi Ewing
- The authors of 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist' pass on the baton to six documentarians in this diverse exploration of social phenomena through (and…
- Michael Wood's Story of England (2010)
- Feat. Michael Wood
- Michael Wood (STORY OF INDIA) embarks on an archeological profile of the village of Kibworth in Leicestershire in this fascinating,…