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The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

1987

We Feed the World

A documentary that exposes the shocking truths behind industrial food production and food wastage, focusing on fishing, livestock and crop farming. A

2005

The Five Obstructions

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set

2003

The Yes Men

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World

2003

Concerning Violence

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the

2014

Elevado 3.5

A documentary about the crowd of people that commingle throughout the 3.5km of the Minhocão, an overpass in the central region of São Paulo, built dur

2007

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

An archival road trip with Stevan Labudović, cameraman to Yugoslav President Tito and cinematic eye of the Algerian revolution, investigating the role

2022

Communism + Sganzerla + Lumière

A fragment of reality about a less affected part of the third world, and how it got to the moon.

2023

Land of Smiles

A young backpacker is lured through the third world paradise of Thailand searching for her kidnapped best friend and unknowingly she becomes the objec

2017

Hungry for Profit

Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS

1985

The Age of the Earth

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during

1980

Natasha Mail Order Bribe Escape to America

Ever since she was a little girl, growing up in the fourth world country of Crapistan, Natasha has devoured all things American. Finally, through the

2012

Dying for Drugs

Every year many new drugs come to market which offer hope to the sick and dying. This documentary film investigates just how far drug companies are pr

2003

The Firing Squad

Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country and how their joy in Christ results in a stunning con

2024

Cuestión de suerte

Life is a question of luck.

2009

Aliens do terceiro mundo e o sequestro de Dona Irene

After receiving a letter calling for a secret conspiracy meeting, a woman is mistaken for a controversial policy and kidnapped by a pair of revolution

2022

A Message from the East

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West,

2009

Banking the Unbanked

2009

Adventure Girl

Faux documentary told in first-person narration, about an "adventuress" who sets sail to Guatemala with her father and two male crewmen, rescues them

1934

68

From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War, th

2008