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Sociology Through Documentary Film
This list was originally created by Jessie Daniels, PhD (Hunter College-CUNY). Now that the list is a wiki, anyone 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.
The Sociological Imagination
- “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).
Culture
Crime
Drug War
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 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.
- Jessie Daniels maintains a separate, and more extensive, list of films about race and racism at RacismReview.
Education
Food/Water/Industry
Genocide
Groups and Organizations
Health, Illness, Medicalization & the Business of Health Care
- “Titicut Follies” (1967) Classic, and controversial film, by Frederick Wiseman.
- “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
- “Super Size Me” (2004) Directed by Morgan Spurlock.
- “Selling Sickness” (2004) Directed by Catherine Scott.
- “The Education of Shelby Knox” (2005) Directed by Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt.
- “Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease, Pushing Drugs” (2007) Producer & Editor, Ronit Ridberg.
- “Sicko” (2007) Directed by Michael Moore.
- "Addiction" (series) (2007) Various directors.
- “The Business of Being Born” (2008), Directed by Abby Epstein, Executive Produced by Ricki Lake.
- “Unnatural Causes” (2008) Executive Producer, Larry Adelman.
- “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” (2008) Directed by Chris Bell.
- “Generation Rx” (2008) Directed by Kevin Miller.
Politics
Religion
Social Movements
Sexuality / Gender
Socialization
Self & Society
Social Stratification / Class Inequality
Urban/Suburban
Visual Sociology
Work / Occupations
Youth / Deviance
Help Getting Started Teaching with Documentary Films
- Course Outlines
- Video Worksheets
- Critical Media Literacy
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