The Salt of the Earth (2014), I Am Because We Are (2008), The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), Jane's Journey (2010), Born Into Brothels (2004), 2040 (2019), Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015), He Named Me Malala (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Global Issues movies.
Storyline: For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, photography, nature, social issues, war, migration, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
Plot Keywords: documentary, poverty, orphans, humanitarianism, social issues, africa, health crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness and who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. Uses the photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle to take the viewer on a journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction of the international community, Steidle resigned and returned to the US to expose the images and stories of lives systematically destroyed. We witness Steidle's transformation from soldier to observer to witness and, finally, to passionate activist and moral hero.—International Film Circuit
Plot Keywords: documentary, war, genocide, human rights, africa, conflict, journalism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote all her energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then she's been spending 300 days a year scouring the globe on her mission to spread hope for future generations. She has taken on the responsibilities of a UN Messenger of Peace, and has been honored with countless awards. In Jane's Journey, we accompany her on her travels across several continents, and receive unprecedented access to her intense and exciting past. From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we embark to Gombe National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Tanzania, her second home. It's where she began her groundbreaking research nearly half a century ago, and she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her the internationally recognized activist so loved and deeply respected.This documentary offers an intimate portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon, possibly the most fascinating woman of our time, whose scientific breakthroughs are considered to be among the most important of the past 100 years.—Palm Springs Internation Film Festival
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, environmental, nature, animal conservation, africa, science ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary photographer Zana Briski journeyed into Calcutta's underworld to photograph the city's prostitutes. In return, she offered to teach the prostitutes' children the basics of photography so that the kids could document their own lives on the streets of one of the world's poorest cities. The resulting photographs, often astonishing, were exhibited around the world; many of them are seen in this film, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: documentary, india, children, poverty, photography, social issues, prostitution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 2040 is an innovative feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW. Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary footage with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and the planet.—GoodThing Productions
Plot Keywords: documentary, future, environment, sustainability, climate change, optimism, technology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Experimental documentary that looks at the Hiroshima nuclear bomb and its legacy.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, science, technology, environment, social impact, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, education, human rights, activism, women's rights, pakistan ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentarians uncover unsafe conditions and disturbingly high plutonium levels that may explain the mysterious health problems experienced by employees of and local residents near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility in Colorado. Locals share harrowing stories of cancer, birth defects and damage to crops and livestock. They struggle to be heard in the face of a pro-industry group that sees any criticism of the plant -- which has injected the economy with much-needed jobs -- as un-American.
Plot Keywords: documentary, environment, social issues, politics, history, cold war, nuclear weapons ...
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