r/Documentaries Aug 05 '20

Society The Untold Story Of America's Southern Chinese (2017) - There's a rather unknown community of Chinese-Americans who've lived in the Mississippi Delta for more than a hundred years. [00:08:20]

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6.6k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Aug 07 '24

Society Why is anti-immigrant sentiment on the rise in Canada? (2024) - Canada has long been celebrated for its welcoming stance towards immigrants, fostering a prosperous, multicultural society. But lately, things have shifted sharply [00:12:59]

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493 Upvotes

r/Documentaries Apr 16 '23

Society How Millions Are Trapped In Modern-Day Slavery At Brick Kilns In Pakistan | Risky Business Title (2023) - [00:18:10]

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2.8k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Feb 04 '20

Health & Medicine/Society Wuhan after the Lockdown (2020) - "Ongoing series. This guy has been documenting life in wuhan after the shutdown there over the coronavirus. Really insightful, this series has gone viral in China"

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7.7k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Sep 22 '19

Society No more fish - Empty Net Syndrome in Greece (2019) - The EU says 93% of Mediterranean fish stocks have been overfished, and blames big trawlers in particular. The fish are getting smaller, and some species have disappeared completely.

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6.7k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Apr 25 '22

Society Antivaxxers are building cult communes in Mexico (2022) [00:14:48]

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2.0k Upvotes

r/Documentaries May 19 '22

Society BBC: Feminist Journalist Sophia Xueqin (2022) disappeared by China State Security [00:17:33]

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4.1k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jan 29 '20

Society Living with the Coronavirus (2020): Short depicting the reality of what's happening in China right now

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5.6k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Mar 10 '19

Society Bulgaria's Abandoned Children (2007) - documents the horrifying conditions of the Bulgarian institutions that home children with disabilities NSFW

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7.6k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jan 21 '23

Society Why Americans Feel So Poor (2023) - A documentary about the chronic poverty in America [00:52:24]

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1.8k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Sep 19 '19

Society Coca-Cola's plastic secrets (2019) - By 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the sea. Ten tons of plastic are produced every second. Sooner or later, a tenth of that will end up in the oceans. Coca-Cola says it wants to do something about it, but does it really?

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6.4k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Feb 01 '22

Society Poverty in the USA: Being Poor in the World's Richest Country (2022) [00:51:36]

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2.3k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jun 22 '22

Society The Caste System in India (2018) This Caste System in India is a three-thousand-year-old Hindu system that is still affecting Indians to this day. This documentary Mateus Berutto Figueiredo shows how Indians are still being affected by this form of stratification. [00:35:06]

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2.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jun 27 '21

Society Slaves in Italy? (2019) Yvan Sagnet from Cameroon is battling modern slavery in Italy's agricultural sector. Sagnet once worked as a low-wage farmhand. Now he is fighting for the rights of seasonal farmworkers, taking criminal recruiters, or gangmasters, to court. [00:28:26]

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4.3k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Aug 30 '18

Society Citizenfour (2014) " The oscar award winning film that uncovers the secret and illegal practices of the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programme using classified documents revealed by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden." [1:53:12]

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6.9k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Sep 17 '17

Society "Video I shot of my typical day of a high school student" (1990)

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6.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Dec 04 '19

Society Hong Kong: Made Suicide (2019) - English-subtitled KBS documentary about (1) Non-suicide declarations of HK protestors; (2) 15-yo girl naked & dead in the sea; (3) Police’s deliberate inaction during mob attack; (4) Rape & sexual assault by police [46:50]

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6.1k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Dec 27 '21

Society Hostile Architecture: The Fight Against the Homeless (2021) [00:30:37]

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2.3k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Feb 29 '20

Society Social Media Dangers Exposed by Mom Posing as 11-Year-Old (2020)

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4.5k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jul 03 '20

Society Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2020) - The story of a woman who recorded American television 24 hours a day for over 30 years. It is the world's most complete collection of American TV news and is now being digitized by The Internet Archive. [01:25:05]

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r/Documentaries Aug 14 '18

Society ‘Young carers: looking after mum’ (2007) A harrowing look into families where children are carers to their parents. Warning; some scenes of child neglect.

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r/Documentaries Jan 15 '23

Society Working But Poor (2023) - Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An indepth investigation into the precariat, a social class of financially insecure citizens who, although they are employed, find it very difficult to make ends meet. [01:29:00]

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r/Documentaries Jul 04 '17

Society A Certain Kind of Death (2003) - A look into what happens when someone dies without next of kin. This brutally honest doc follows body discovery, body removal, attempts at finding relatives, cremation, estate auctions, ect. (1:09) NSFW

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r/Documentaries Mar 03 '23

Society The Dark Side of Winning the Lottery (2023) - the lives of a diverse group of six multi-million dollar lottery winners to showing how life-changing the experience can be for the average person; they share their personal stories of success, failure, luck, loss, and redemption. [01:34:45]

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1.8k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jan 30 '21

Society Back from Jupiter (2012) A man breaks a 45 year-long self-imposed isolation caused by a lifetime of abuse and bullying. A touching story about alienation and human warmth. [00:59:00]

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4.9k Upvotes