Society

Terms and Conditions May Apply

Terms and Conditions May Apply, by Cullen Hoback, addresses the so-called privacy of information shared on the internet. The film features appearances by Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of G...

8 Minutes and 46 Seconds: The Killing of George Floyd

8 Minutes and 46 Seconds delves into the death of a Black man at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, which sparked Black Lives Matter protests across the world. The title of the documentary refers to the lengt...

Utopia

Utopia chronicles filmmaker John Pilger’s investigation into the plight of Aboriginal people in Australia. Pilger journeys to the town of Utopia, one of the most impoverished areas in the country, where an Aboriginal communit...

War on Whistleblowers

War on Whistleblowers describes the trials and tribulations faced by whistleblowers and the sacrifices they make as they dare to speak the truth and expose corruption in both government and the private sector. It highlights t...

Banaz: A Love Story

Banaz: A Love Story, directed by filmmaker Deeyah Khan, chronicles the life of Kurdish-British woman Banaz Mahmod and her eventual death at the hands of her own family. Her murder, labelled by her family as an “honour killing...

The Jihadis Next Door

The Jihadis Next Door follows and challenges the behaviour of Islamic extremists preaching their message in Britain. One of the most memorable individuals featured is Abu Rumaysah, a former bouncy-castle salesman whose journe...

Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North is a silent documentary filmed and produced by Robert J. Flaherty which follows the everyday lives of an Inuit family in the Canadian Arctic. Set in northern Quebec, the film stars Nanook, his wife Nyla, a...

Finding My Twin Stranger

Finding My Twin Stranger delves into the unusual realm of doppelgangers—people who look exactly alike but are not genetically related. The film explores the lives and potential connections of seven pairs of strangers whose fe...

3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets

3½ Minutes, 10 Bullets, directed by Marc Silver, recounts the events surrounding the killing of seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis, as well as the trial and social fallout that followed. On the day after Thanksgiving in 2012, Da...

The Hacker Wars

Adopting the label hacktivist—a hacker who uses obtained information for political or activist causes—three young men set out to challenge the future of freedom and privacy on the internet. Operating on the edge of legality a...

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, by Robert Greenwald, explores the multinational American retail giant Walmart and the negative effects of its business practices. Set across three continents, it shares the personal stori...

J. Cole: 4 Your Eyez Only

Most entertainers strive to be the centre of attention, but for rapper J. Cole’s documentary effort, he chose to focus on an issue he cares about deeply: the experiences of impoverished Black Americans in southern cities such...