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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, 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.
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.
- In The Footsteps of Marco Polo (2008) Directed by and starring Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell. Originally aired on public television. Two ordinary guys literally retrace the steps of Marco Polo.
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
- “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. Eight American Teenagers, each of different race and class, are followed on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee. Gripping and sweet, makes one think about socioeconomics without the pain.
- “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.
- "No Impact Man" (2009) Directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein.
- Good Hair (2009) Directed by Jeff Stilson
Crime
Drugs: Addiction, Alcohol, Tobacco
Drugs: 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 / War
- "Paper Clips" (2004) Directed by Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab.
- "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 Ghraib" (2007) Directed by Rory Kennedy.
- “Standard Operating Procedure” (2008) Directed by Errol Morris.
- Inheritance (POV on PBS) (2008) Directed by James Moll. Starring Monika Hertwig and Helen Jonas. The daughter of the sadistic Nazi Amom Goeth portrayed in Schindler's List confronts her heritage and meets her father's Jewish housekeeper from the concentration camp. Unbelievably painful and gripping, explores the damage war causes far beyond the immediate time period.
Groups and Organizations
Health, Illness, Medicalization & the Business of Health Care
- “Titicut Follies” (1967) Classic, and controversial film, by Frederick Wiseman.
- "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" (May 2003) Directed by Rory Kennedy
- "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.
- “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.
- "Addiction" (2007) HBO, A documentary made up of nine separate segments on the topic of drug addiction.
- “Unnatural Causes” (2008) Executive Producer, Larry Adelman.
- “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” (2008) Directed by Chris Bell.
- “Generation Rx” (2008) Directed by Kevin Miller.
- "Killer at Large" (2008) Directed by Steven Greenstreet.
- "Fat: What No One is Telling You" (2008) PBS Special.
- "Frontline: Sick Around the World" (2008) Directed by Jon Pelfreman
- "Including Samuel" (2009) Directed by Dan Habib and Edited by Rikk Desgres
Politics
Religion
Social Movements / Community Organizing
Sexuality / Gender
Socialization
Self & Society
Social Stratification / Class Inequality
Urban/Suburban
Visual Sociology
Work / Occupations
Youth / Deviance
Help Getting Started Teaching with Documentary Films
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