Third World Movies

An essay film in which three young people unearth a clandestine archive of Brazilian cinema and plunge into a Dadaist–Third World delirium....

A director wanted to produce a fiction film about mining issues with local citizens, but because the story did not match reality, the local citizens...

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a...

Sergio travels to Guinea-Bissau to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he...

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...

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

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

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

Set in an unspecified Third World country, this animated film, based on a short story by Enver Carim, suggests that "top priority" means different...

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

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is...

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...

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

Life is a question of luck.

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

War By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning loans to developing countries from the World Bank which...

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,...

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