Human Rights Documentaries in 2026
Updated
Explore documentaries connected by their focus on human rights, with entries ordered by year from newest to oldest. The catalogue includes 18 films, giving you room to filter and sort as you look for a subject or starting point that fits your interest. Compare films by their year or by the particular human-rights subject that draws your attention. Among the titles are Crayons and Paper, Kimjongilia, and Little Alien, alongside Mugabe and the White African and Out in the Silence. The New Ten Commandments, Taking Liberties, and Taxi to the Dark Side also appear among the first entries in the ordering.
18 on record. Sorted by year; every figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), with the page it was read from on each entry.
- 1
Crayons and Paper
2009 · Bruce David Janu- Year
- 2009
- Director
- Bruce David Janu
- 2
Kimjongilia
2009 · N.C. Heikin- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 75 min
- Director
- N.C. Heikin
- 3
Little Alien
2009 · Nina Kusturica- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Director
- Nina Kusturica
- 4
Mugabe and the White African
2009 · Andrew Thompson- Year
- 2009
- Director
- Andrew Thompson, Lucy Bailey
- 5
Out in the Silence
2009 · Dean Hamer- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 56 min
- Director
- Dean Hamer
- 6
The New Ten Commandments
2008 · Anna Jones- Year
- 2008
- Director
- Anna Jones, Alice Nelson, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott
- 7
Taking Liberties
2007 · Chris Atkins- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Director
- Chris Atkins
- 8
Taxi to the Dark Side
2007 · Alex Gibney- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Director
- Alex Gibney
- 9
Cruel and Unusual
2006 · Janet Baus- Year
- 2006
- Director
- Janet Baus, Reid Williams
- 10
Pursuit of Equality
2005 · Geoff Callan- Year
- 2005
- Director
- Geoff Callan, Mike Shaw
- 11
Zdroj
2005 · Martin Mareček- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Director
- Martin Mareček
- 12
Digna... hasta el último aliento
2004 · Felipe Cazals- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Director
- Felipe Cazals
- 13
Seoul Train
2004 · Jim Butterworth- Year
- 2004
- Director
- Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky
- 14
Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News
2002 · Peter Wintonick- Year
- 2002
- Director
- Peter Wintonick, Katerina Cizek
- 15
- Year
- 2002
- 16
XXXY
2000 · Porter Gale- Year
- 2000
- Director
- Porter Gale
- 17
Twenty Years Later
1984 · Eduardo Coutinho- Year
- 1984
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Director
- Eduardo Coutinho
- 18
Improper Conduct
1983 · Néstor Almendros- Year
- 1983
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Director
- Néstor Almendros
Photo credits (4)
Taxi to the Dark Side: US army, Public domain · Seoul Train: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0 · XXXY: Jim Ambrose, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Improper Conduct: Виктор Пинчук (автор фото и книги), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photos from Wikimedia Commons; DocumentaryTube links each to its file page.