SocThroughDocFilm

Sociology Through Documentary Film

This list was originally created by Jessie Daniels, PhD (Hunter College-CUNY).  Now that the list is a wiki, everyone is invited to create a login, update and add to the list.

 

The top-level of organization is that this list includes only documentary films, not feature films (if you're not sure of the difference, read this).  Please only add documentaries to this list.  

 

Following that, the films are organized first by category (roughly these categories correspond to some of the key concepts within the field of sociology).  Within each category, each sub-list of films is arranged from oldest to most recent.  If you add a film, please be sure to follow the organizational schema. 

 

 

When possible, the information about each film that's listed includes the following:  1) the year it was released, 2) a hyperlink to additional information about the film (ideally, a link to where the film can be ordered) and, 3) the director listed.  If you add a film, please be sure to add this information.

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The Sociological Imagination

• The Up Series (1964-2005). Directed by Michael Apted.  A sociological cross-section of children in England are interviewed about their hopes for the future.  The children are revisited every 7 years as they progress into adulthood.  Each film in the series is emotional and moving.  Currently concludes with 49 Up.
• “49 Up.” (2005) Directed by Michael Apted.

 

Sociological Investigation / Research Methods / Research Ethics

• “Obedience” (about Milgram experiments).
• “Quiet Rage” (about Zimbardo experiments).
• “The Deadly Deception” (1993) Directed by Denisce DiAnni. (Excellent documentary about the Tuskegee study, including interviews with men who were unwilling subjects of this study and doctors who conducted it, and others who objected to it.) Originally distributed by WGBH/ Films for the Humanities and Sciences. (Can be hard to locate, but worth questing for if your library doesn’t already own it.)
• "The True Meaning of Pictures" (2002) Directed by Jennifer Baichwal.  A documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
• “The Human Behavior Experiments” (2006) Directed by Alex Gibney. (about both Milgram, Zimbardo and more contemporary examples, such as Abu Gharib). oyunlar1

 

Culture

• "The Cry of Jazz" (1959) Directed by Edward Bland.
• “A Man Called Bee” (1974) Directed by Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon (but, not without controversy, see here, here, and here).
• “American Tongues” (1987) Directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker.
• “Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh” (1993) Produced/Directed by John Page, Chris Beeman, & Helena Norberg-Hodge.
• “The Primal Mind” (1996) Directed by Jamake Highwater.
• “The Merchants of Cool” (2001) Directed by Douglas Rushkoff.
• “The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America” (2001) Directed by Taggart Siegel.
• “Daughter from Danang” (2002) Directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco.
• “The Devil’s Playground” (2002) Directed by Lucy Walker.
• "Spellbound" (2002) Directed by Jeffrey Blitz.
• “The Persuaders” (2004) Directed by Douglas Rushkoff.
• “Do You Speak American?” (2004) Directed by Robert MacNeil.
• “I for India.” (2005) Directed by Sandhya Suri. 
• "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" (2006) Directed by Kirby Dick.
• “The Story of Stuff” (2007) Directed by Annie Leonard.
• “Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Kids” (2008) Directed by Adriana Barbaro & Jeremy Earp.
• "Guns In America" (2008) National Geographic.
• "In The Footsteps of Marco Polo" (2008) Directed by Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell.
• "Beautiful Losers" (2008) Directed by Aaron Rose
• "No Impact Man" (2009) Directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein.
• "Good Hair" (2009) Directed by Jeff Stilson.
•   "Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis" (2009) Directed by M. Black.
• "We Live in Public" (2009) Directed by Ondi Timoner.
• "Exit Through the Gift Shop" (2010) Directed by Banksy.

 

Crime

• “Thin Blue Line” (1988) Directed by Errol Morris.
• "The Farm" (1998) Directed by Liz Garbus.
• “Murder on a Sunday Morning” (2001) Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Academy Award for Best Documentary (2001).
• "The Execution of Wanda Jean" (2002) Directed by Liz Garbus.
• “Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer” (2003) Directed by Nick Broomfield.
• "Girlhood" (2003) Directed by Liz Garbus.
• “Every Mother’s Son” (2004) Directed by Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson.
• “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” (2005) Directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg.
• "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" (2006) Directed by Lisa Jackson.
• “Race to Execution”(2007) Directed by Rachel Lyon. (More information at PBS.)
• “Tulia, Texas”(2008) Directed by Cassandra Herrman and Kelly Whalen.
• “American Gangster: Seasons 1-3″ (BET series, 2006-2008) Executive produced by Nelson George. 
• "Crips & Bloods: Made in America" (2009) Directed by Stacy Peralta.  
• Nice list here of crime-related documentaries from sociologist Bradley Wright.

 

Drugs: Addiction, Alcohol, Tobacco 

• "Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft, and Global Tobacco" (2000). Directed by Kelly Anderson & Tami Gold.
• "Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol" (2004) Produced & Edited by Ronit Ridberg.
• "Addiction" (2007) HBO/NIH. A series of nine separate films on the topic of drug addiction. 
• "The Meth Epidemic" (2006) Written and Proudced by Carl Byker. 
• “Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease, Pushing Drugs” (2007) Produced & Edited by Ronit Ridberg. 
• "I'm Dangerous With Love" (2009) Directed by Michel Negroponte.

 

Drugs: Drug War

• “Grass” (1999) Directed by Ron Mann.
• “Plan Columbia: Cashing in on the Drug-War Failure” (2004) Directed by Gerard Ungeman.
• “Cocaine Cowboys” (2006) Directed by Billy Corben.
• “American Drug War: The Last White Hope” (2007) Directed by Kevin Booth.
• "The Union: The Business Behind Getting High" (2007) Directed by Brett Harvey.
• "Crips & Bloods: Made in America" (2009) Directed by Stacy Peralta.

 

Ethnicity / Race

• “True Colors.” (ABC, PrimeTime Live). Diane Sawyer and news crew stage what is basically a “matched study” experiment by pairing John, who is white, and Glen, who is black, and follow them with a series of hidden cameras with as they expose racism in a variety of settings.  Although old (early 1990s) and very short (just 19 minutes), if I could only show one film to a class about race in the U.S., I would choose this one. Available for purchase here.
• "Grace Lee Project" (2005) Directed by Grace Lee.
• Jessie Daniels maintains a separate, and more extensive, list of films about race and racism at RacismReview.
• C.N. Le also maintains a separate and extensive list of documentaries about Asian Americans, organized by topic, at Asian-Nation.org. 
• "Race: The Power of an Illusion" (2003) Directed by Larry Adelman. 

 

Education

• "Hell's Highway: The Story of Highway Safety Films" (2003) Directed by Bret Wood.
• “Heart of the Game” (2005) Directed by Ward Serrill.
• “Corridor of Shame”(2006) Directed by Bud Ferillo.
• "The Hollywood Librarian" (2007) Directed by Ann Seidl.
• “Resolved” (2007) Directed by Greg Whiteley.
• “Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story”(2008) Directed by Bill Kavanah.
• "The Lottery" (2010) Directed by Madeleine Sackler.

 

Family

• “Defending Our Lives” (1994) Directed by Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich, Academy Award for Best Documentary (1994).
• "The Pill" (1999) Directed by Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone.
• "Big Mama" (2000) Produced by California Newsreel.
• “People Like Us: Social Class in America” (2001) Directed by Louis Alvarez and Andy Kolker.
• "Maid in America" (2004) Produced by Kevin Leadingham.
• "The Motherhood Manifesto" (2006) Directed by Laura Pacheco.
• “For the Bible Tells Me So” (2007) Directed by Daniel Karslake.
• "Treeless Mountain" (2008) Directed Soyong Kim.

 

Family: Adoption & Surrogacy

• "Off and Running" (2009) Directed by Nicole Opper.
  
• "Made in India" (2010) Directed by Rebecca Haimowitz & Vaishali Sinha.
• "Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy" (2010) Directed by Stephanie Wang-Breal. 

 

Food, Water & Energy Industry

• "The Global Banquet" (2001) Directed by Zoe Young.
• "Modern Meat" (2002) Directed by Doug Hamilton.
• "The Meatrix," and "Meatrix II" (2003, 2006) Produced by Sustainable Table.
• "The Future of Food" (2004) Directed by Deborah Koons.
• "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" (2004) Directed by Cori Barkett, JT Waldon
• "Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison" (2005) Directed by Josh Sore.
• "Our Daily Bread" (2005) Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter.
• "Sweet Remedy:The World Reacts to an Adulterated Food Supply" (2006) Directed by Cori Barkett, JT Waldon.
• "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2006) Directed by Chris Paine. 
  
• "King Corn" (2007) Directed by Aaron Woolf.
• "Garbage Warrior" (2007) Directed by Oliver Hodge. 
• "Food Fight" (2008) Directed by Christopher Taylor.
• "Flow" (2008) Directed by Irena Salina.
• "The Garden" (2008) Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.
• "Food, Inc." (2009) Directed by Robert Kenner.
• "Crude" (2009) Directed by Joe Berlinger.
• "The Cove" (2009) Directed by Louie Psihoyos.
• "Forks Over Knives" (2011) Directed by Lee Fulkerson. 
  

 

Genocide / War / Human Rights

• "Night and Fog" (1955), Directed by Alain Resnais. 
• "Well-Founded Fear" (2000) Directed by Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson.
• "Srebrenica: Triumph of Evil"  (2001). Produced by SENSE Agency.
• "Ghosts of Rwanda" (2004), Directed by Greg Barker. 
• "Control Room" (2004) Directed by Jehane Noujaim 
• "Paper Clips" (2004) Directed by Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab.
• "Gunner Palace" (2004) Directed by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker. 
• "Why We fight" (2005) Directed by Eugene Jarecki 
• "The War Tapes" (2006) Directed by Deborah Scranton. 
• "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" (2006) Directed by Lisa Jackson.
• "Darwin’s Nightmare" (2006) Directed by Hubert Sauper.
• "Shadow Company" (2006) Directed by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque. Narrated by Gerard Butler.
• "Taxi to the Dark Side" (2007) Directed by Alex Gibney.
• "The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair" (2007) Directed by Michael Tucker.
• "War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" (2007) Directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp.  
• "Nanking" (2007) Directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman.
• "Darfur Now" (2007) Directed by Ted Braun.
• "No End In Sight" (2007) Directed by Charles Ferguson.
• "Ghosts of Abu Gharib" (2007) Directed by Rory Kennedy.
• "Buying the War" (2007) PBS Frontline with Bill Moyers.  
• “Standard Operating Procedure” (2008) Directed by Errol Morris.
•  "Inheritance" (2008) Directed by James Moll. 
• "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" (2009) Directed by Gini Reticker. 
• "Waste Land" (2010) Directed by Lucy Walker.

 

Globalization

• "Control Room" (2004) Directed by Jehane Noujaim.
• "Manufactured Landscapes" (2006) Directed by Jennifer Baichwal.
• "Maquilapolis: City of Factories" (2006) Directed by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre. 

 

Groups and Organizations

• “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (2005) Directed by Alex Gibney.
• "The Hollywood Librarian" (2007) Directed by Ann Seidl.
• “Crips and Bloods: Made in America” (2008) Directed by Stacy Peralta. 

 

Health, Illness, Medicalization & the Business of Health Care

• “Titicut Follies” (1967) Classic, and controversial film, by Frederick Wiseman.
• "The Fire Within: HIV/AIDS" (1995) Produced and directed by Leanne Whitney.
• "The Pill" (1999) Directed by Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone.
• "Sound and Fury" (2000) Directed by Josh Aronson. (Also available: "Sound and Fury: Six Years Later," 2006).
• “Cracking the Code of Life” (2001) Directed by Betsey Arledge and Elizabeth Arledge.
• “Medicating Kids” (2001) Directed by Marcela Gaviria.
• “Pills, Profits, Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement” (2003) Directed by Anne-Christine d’Adesky, Shanti Avirgan, & Ann T. Rossetti.
• "Pandemic: Facing Aids" (2003) Directed by Rory Kennedy.
• "The Origin Of AIDS" (2003) Produced by Peter Chappell and Catherine Peix.
• "The Gift" (2003) Directed by Louise Hargarth.
• “Super Size Me” (2004) Directed by Morgan Spurlock.
• “Selling Sickness” (2004) Directed by Catherine Scott.
• "Global Dimming" (2005) Producer David Sington, Horizon (BBC).
• “The Education of Shelby Knox” (2005) Directed by Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt.
• "The Meth Epidemic" (2006) Directed by Carl Byker.
• "McLibel" (2006) Directed by Franny Armstrong.
• "Andrew Jenks, Room 335" (2006) Directed by Andrew Jenks.
• "The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's Stories of Love, Courage and Hope" (2006) Produced by Kaiser Permamente Foundation.
• “Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease, Pushing Drugs” (2007) Produced and directed by Ronit Ridberg.
• “Sicko” (2007) Directed by Michael Moore.
• "Addiction" (HBO/NIHseries) (2007) Various directors. 
• “Unnatural Causes” (2008) Executive Producer, Larry Adelman.
•  "All of Us" (2008) Directed by Emily Apt.
• “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” (2008) Directed by Chris Bell.

• “Generation Rx” (2008) Directed by Kevin Miller.

• "Depression Out of the Shadows" (2008) Directed by Larkin McPhee.

• "Killer at Large" (2008)  Directed by Steven Greenstreet.
• "Fat: What No One is Telling You"  (2008) PBS Special. 
• "Sick Around the World" (2008) Directed by Jon Pelfreman.
• “The Business of Being Born” (2008), Directed by Abby Epstein, Executive Produced by Ricki Lake.
• "Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors without Borders" (2008) Directed by Mark N. Hopkins.
• "Including Samuel" (2009) Directed by Dan Habib and Edited by Rikk Desgres.
• "No Family History" (2009) Directed by Sabrina McCormick.
• "The Released" (2009) Produced by Karen O'Connor and Miri Navasky. 
• "The Alzheimer's Project: Caregivers" (2009) Directed by Bill Couturie.
• "Why Us? Left Behind and Dying" (2009) Directed by Claudia Pryor. 
• "Forks Over Knives" (2011) Directed by Lee Fulkerson.  

 

Immigration

• “The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America” (2001) Directed by Taggart Siegel.
• “Daughter from Danang” (2002) Directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco.
• “Farmingville” (2004) Directed by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini.
• “I for India.” (2005) Directed by Sandhya Suri. 
• "Which Way Home" (2009) Directed by Rebecca Cammisa.
• "The Other Side of Immigration" (2009) Directed by Roy Germano.
• C.N. Le maintains a separate and extensive list of documentaries about immigration, organized by topic, at Asian-Nation.org. 

 

Law & Society

• "Race to Execution" (2007) Directed by Rachel Lyon and Jim Lopes.
• "Tulia, Texas" (2008) Produced and directed by Cassandra Herman and Kelly Whalen.
• "William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe" (2009) Directed by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler.

 

Media & Internet

• "Manufacturing Consent" (1992) Directed by Mark Achbar and Wintonick. 
• "Control Room" (2004) Directed by Jehane Noujaim. 
• "Buying the War" (2007) PBS Frontline with Bill Moyers.  
• "War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" (2007) Directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp.  
• "We Live in Public" (2009) Directed by Ondi Timoner.
• "The Yes Men Fix the World" (2009) Directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno.
• "Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier" (2010)  PBS Frontline Directed and Produced by Rachel Dretzin.
• "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" (2011) Directed by Morgan Spurlock.

 

Politics

• “Chisolm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed” (2004) Directed by Shola Lynch.
• “The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear” (2004) Directed by Adam Curtis.
• “Blog Wars” (2006) Directed by James Rogan.
• "Al Franken: God Spoke" (2006) Directed by Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus. Executive Produced by D.A. Pennebaker.
• "Hacking Democracy" (2006) Directed by Simon Adrizzone and Russell Michaels.
• “Fourteen Women” (2007) Directed by Mary Lambert.
• “Please Vote for Me” (2008) Directed by Weijun Chen.
• "The Yes Men Fix the World" (2009) Directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno.

 

Religion

• “A Life Apart: Hasidim in America” (1997) Directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky.
• “Trembling Before G-d” (2001) Directed by Sandi Simcha Dubowski.
• “The Devil’s Playground” (2002) Directed by Lucy Walker.
• "Wheel of Time" (2003) Directed by Werner Herzog.
• “With God on Our Side” (2004) Directed by Calvin Skaggs, David Van Taylor, and Ali Pomeroy.
• “Jesus Camp” (2006) Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.
• "Deliver Us From Evil" (2006) Directed by Amy Berg.
• "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" (2006) Directed by Stanley Nelson.
• “For the Bible Tells Me So” (2007) Directed by Daniel Karslake.
• "A Jihad for Love"(2007) Directed by Parvez Sharma. 
• “Constantine’s Sword” (2008) Directed by Oren Jacoby.
• "Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School" (2008) Produced by Keshet.
• "Religulous" (2008) Directed by Larry Charles. Written by and Starring Bill Maher.
• "New Muslim Cool" (2009) Produced/Directed by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor.

 

Social Movements / Community Organizing

• “Berkeley in the Sixties” (1990) Directed by Mark Kitchell.
• “Soldiers in the Army of God” (2000) Directed by Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson.
• “The Weather Underground” (2002) Directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel.
• "V-Day: Until the Violence Stops" (2003) Directed by Abby Epstein.
• “Sir, No Sir!” (2005) Directed by David Zeiger.
• “Sisters of ‘77″ (2005) Directed by Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell.
• “Favela Rising” (2006) Directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary.
• “Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)” (2006) Directed by Jill Irene Freidberg.
• "The Shape of Water" (2006) Directed by Kum-Kum Bhavnani.
• "The Garden" (2008) Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.
• "Made in L.A." (2009) Directed by Almudena Caarracedo and Robert Bahar.
• "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" (2009) Directed by Gini Reticker.
• "Waste Land" (2010) Directed by Lucy Walker.
• "The Yes Men Fix the World" (2009) Directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno.

 

Sexuality / Gender

• “Defending Our Lives” (1994) Directed by Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich.  (Dated but holds up well and is very effective for teaching about domestic violence; Academy Award for Best Documentary, 1994).
• "Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness" (1995) Directed by Jean Kilbourne. 
• "You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transexual Men" (1996) Directed by Bestor Cram.
• "The Pill" (1999) Directed by Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone.
• "Killing Us Softly 3" (2000) Directed by Jean Kilbourne.
• "Sex: The Annabel Chong Story" (2000). Directed by Gough Lewis.
• “Live Nude Girls Unite!” (2000) Directed by Julia Query.
• “Southern Comfort” (2001) Directed by Kate Davis.
• "The Right to Feminity" (2004) Directed by Marion Mayer-Hohdahl.
• "I Was A Teenage Feminist" (2005) Directed by Therese Shechter. More info available here.
• “Transgeneration” (2005) Directed by Jeremy Simmons.
• "The Education of Shelby Knox" (2005) Directed by Marion Lipshultz and Rose Rosenblatt. 
• “Gender Rebel” (2006) Directed by Norman Green.
• “Queer Streets” (2006) Directed by Brooke Sopelsa, Sarah Freightner, & Alex Waterfield.
• "HIP-HOP:Beyond Beats & Rhymes" (2006) Directed by Byron Hurt.  More info available here.
• "No! The Rape Documentary" (2006) Directed by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. 
• “Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video” (2007) Directed by Sut Jhally.
• "Very Young Girls" (2007) Directed by David Schisgall.
• “Juggling Gender / Still Juggling” (1992/2008) Directed by Tami Gold.
• “Passion & Power: Technology of Orgasm” (2008) Directed by Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick.
• "Taboo Yardies" (2008) Directed by Selena Blake.
• "Finding Face" (2009) Directed by Skye Fitzgerald and Patti Duncan.

 

Socialization

• “Secret of the Wild Child” (1994) Directed by Linda Garmon.
• “Jesus Camp” (2006) Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.

 

Self & Society

• “The Century of the Self” (2002) Directed by Adam Curtis.
• “The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom” (2007) Directed by Adam Curtis.
• "The Declaration of Human Rights" (2008) Directed by Seth Brau.
• "We Live in Public" (2009) Directed by Ondi Timoner.

 

Social Stratification / Class Inequality

• “People Like Us: Social Class in America” (2001) Directed by Louis Alvarez and Andy Kolker.
• “Life and Debt” (2001) Directed by Stephanie Black.
• “The Corporation” (2004) Directed by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakhan.
• “Born into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids” (2004) Directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kaufman.
• “The Overspent American” (2004) Directed by Sut Jhally, Loretta Alper & Kelly Garner.
• “The Boys of Baraka” (2005) Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.
• “Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class” (2005) Directed by Sut Jhally.
• "UnNatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" (2008). Larry Adelman, executive producer.  A 7-part documentary on the connections between wealth/income and health in the U.S.

• "Capitalism: A Love Story" (2009) Directed by Michael Moore.

• "The Status Films" (2011) Directed by Andrew Filippone Jr. A 4-part documentary culled from public Facebook updates. A conjuring up of the world of the cultural underclass.

• "Inside Job" (2010).  Directed by Charles Ferguson.
  

   

 

Urban/Suburban

• “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” (1988) Directed by Wm. H. Whyte.
• "Dark Days" (2000) Directed by Marc Singer.
• “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream” (2004) Directed by Gregory Greene.
• "Subdivided:Isolation and Community in America" (2007) Directed by Dean Terry.
• "Bomb It: Graffiti Documentary" (2007)  Produced and directed by Jon Reiss.
• "Brick City" (2009-10) Produced and directed by Mark Benjamin and Mark Levin.
• "Waste Land" (2010) Directed by Lucy Walker.

 

 

Visual Sociology

• “True Meaning of Pictures” (2002) Directed by Jennifer Baichwal.
• "Manufactured Landscapes" (2006) Directed by Jennifer Baichwal.
• “Standard Operating Procedure” (2008) Directed by Errol Morris.
• "We Live in Public" (2009) Directed by Ondi Timoner.

 

Work / Occupations

• "Harvest of Shame" (1960) Directed by Fred Friendly. Produced by Fred Friendly, David Lowe, Edward R. Murrow.
• “Harlan County USA” (1976) Directed by Barbara Kopple.
• “The Life & Times of Rosie the Riveter” (1980) Directed by Sue Davenport.
• “Clockwork” (1981) Directed by Eric Breitbart.
• “Fast Food Women” (1992) Directed Anne Lewis Johnson.
• “Fast Cheap & Out of Control” (1997) Directed by Errol Morris.
• “Life and Debt” (2001) Directed by Stephanie Black.
• “The Overspent American” (2004) Directed by Sut Jhally, Loretta Alper & Kelly Garner.
• “Farmingville” (2004) Directed by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini.
• "A Decent Factory" (2004) Directed by Thomas Balmes.
• "Wetback" (2005) Directed by Arturo Torres.
• “Taking the Heat” (2006) Directed by Bann Roy.
• “Maquilapolis: City of Factories” (2006) Directed by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre.
• “Mardi Gras: Made in China” (2006) Directed by David Redmon.
• “En El Hoyo (In the Pit)” (2006) Directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo.
• "China Blue" (2006) Directed by Mica X. Peled. 
• "Made in L.A." (2009) Directed by Almudena Caarracedo and Robert Bahar.

 

 

Youth / Deviance

• "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" (1996) Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.
• "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations" (2001) Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.
• “The Devil’s Playground” (2002) Directed by Lucy Walker.
• "Girlhood" (2003) Directed by Liz Garbus
• "Bomb It: Graffiti Documentary" (2007)  Produced / Directed by Jon Reiss.

 

 

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Help Getting Started Teaching with Documentaries

 

• Course Outlines
• Video Worksheets
• Critical Media Literacy

 

 

 

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