1. Sicko
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
It has an average vote of 7.352 on TMDB.
2. Visions of Europe
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
It has an average vote of 4.882 on TMDB.
3. Minerva (Minerva)
Severely battered from the Beirut Port Explosion on August 4th, Minerva passed away eight days later. Her son Joseph, while still grieving for his loss, sunk into a long and absurd bureaucratic path through the inept system that disowned his mother as a victim of the blast. Minerva is gone. The explosion has snatched her soul, and the city walls have not yet recognized her as a martyr. There is no poster of her smiling face among those of the victims. Their faces are memories that will haunt us for the rest of our lives. Perhaps her son, devastated by her passing, seeks to etch her image into the city's memory. Perhaps he is seeking some confession to the crime. This is a place that casts out its children, whether dead or alive.
4. One Got Fat
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
5. Open to the Public (Aperti al Pubblico)
The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in the 40,000 houses managed by the institute. Their task is to find solutions to citizens’ problems and trigger the bureaucratic procedures to solve them. But managing these chaotic lives within rigid legal structures is not an easy task and employees are often forced to resort to a singular art: “bureaucratic compromise”.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
6. 'LSD': Trip or Trap!
The Inglewood Police Department's 1960s video, "LSD: Trip or Trap?" is a classic of the genre. Alex sez, "It's a story of two friends who enjoy flying model planes, except that one becomes an 'acidhead' so he can be 'groovy' with the other acidheads. The other does research into LSD and decides it's a 'bummer'."
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
7. Berlin Ulysses (Großstadt Odysseus)
Successfully completed your studies - now what? Raffly already has a lucrative job offer from a large German company, but neither an apartment nor a work permit.
8. Say No to Strangers
A short film to warn children of sexual predators.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy (La Grippe espagnole : La grande tueuse)
In April 1918, a disease of unknown origin swept across the five continents. In 18 months, millions of lives that had not been taken by the war were swept away by a virus that would cause the worst pandemic in history: the Spanish flu.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
10. Wild at the Wheel
This short film looks at the importance of maintaining safe driving practices and heeding traffic rules. A traffic cop investigates a serious car crash and attempts to understand the cause.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. Drugs Are Like That
Though the highs and lows of human experience are all here, it's often the gimcrack set design and fashion chops in these vintage clunkers that really wow – the pot-holder sweater vests, ponytails decorated with yarn, hippies with crumb-catching moustaches, banana-seat bikes and a hard rain of Quaaludes and amphetamines to illustrate the dangers of drug addiction. It is hard to believe anyone would buy the goofball cause-and-effect of that pill-popper's weather pattern in "Drugs Are Like That". Co-produced by the Miami Junior League and narrated by Anita Bryant in this cheery little hand-slapper, a kid stealing cookies from a cookie jar is implied to be headed down a bad road to Bowery bum rolls and LSD parties.
It has an average vote of 2.111 on TMDB.
12. The High Wall
Film produced for a coalition of public service groups to combat racial and ethnic hatred. The narrative follows an emotionally insecure Chicago teenager whose bigoted thinking leads him to violence. Explores how prejudices are passed like "a contagious disease" from parent to child, teacher to pupils, and youth to youth, and suggests strategies for breaking the cycle.
13. Beware The Rapist
Public information film regarding female safety and how to safeguard against rape
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
14. The Hole In The Ground
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout.
15. Welfare
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
16. The Unofficial Dan Quayle Video
The Unofficial Dan Quayle Video is a humorous collection of Quayle’s speeches, press conferences and interviews given during his term as Vice President. See Dan Quayle on the golf course , watch him squirm as he is interviewed by grade school children, see him in action at a ceremony at NASA, examine his technique in “throwing out his garbage.” The Unofficial Dan Quayle Video will be hilarious to Democrats and Republicans alike.
17. Driving to the Edge (Dérapages)
Between 2007 and 2011, 725 Quebecers aged 16 to 24 were killed in car accidents. Excessive speed and alcohol were involved in half of these deaths. To try to understand what is going on in these young drivers' heads when they get behind the wheel, host and documentary filmmaker Paul Arcand met with some of them. On one hand, he gives a voice to these young people who love driving fast. On the other hand, he provides a forum for two accident victims who were injured both physically and psychologically. Finally, the director meets the mother of little Bianca Leduc, who was killed by a drunk driver while she was in the care of her babysitter, and the parents of Michael Borduas, 23, who is severely disabled from an accident.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
18. 16 Acres
The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
19. Your Call Is Important To Us (Votre appel est important pour nous)
The only thing colder than a Canadian winter is Canadian bureaucracy . Based on five real life stories, Romy Boutin St-Pierre and Joe Nadeau pay homage to the nation-wide stress headache of phone calls with the government in this surprising short.
20. Juvenile Court
JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
