Society

Understand society and what lies behind it. A well balanced society can lead to a greater means of productivity and connectivity for all of us, effectively awarding an easier human life. A bad society can create rifts and disrupt lives. Find and study societies across the world on Work Lizard to gain an insight into how we could improve our own societies.

Guns Germs and Steel

Is there a reason for the inequality of modern world societies? Jared Diamond believes so and traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years to understand the roots of global inequality.

First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon

Anthropologist José Carlos Meirelles and his team encounter a tribe of uncontacted people in the jungles of South America known as the Txapanawa.

Harlan County USA

Harlan County USA is a documentary film which shows the life and struggles of a group of coal miners, as they resort to a strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973.

Banana Land: Blood, Bullets and Poison

Banana Land: Blood, Bullets and Poison is a documentary film investigating the dark history of banana agribusiness.

Welcome Nowhere

Welcome Nowhere is a documentary film which travels to Bulgaria, in an effort to shine light on the Roma People - a society more commonly known as Gypsies.

Congo: A journey to the heart of Africa

This documentary explores the lesser known stories of the country Congo. Join in, as BBC journalist Alastair Leithead travels from the Atlantic Ocean into the heart of the African country of Congo to discover them.

Lonely Deaths

Investigate the social crisis known as Kodokushi- otherwise known as lonely death. In Japan an estimated 30,000 people per year die alone in their homes. This documentary looks at some of these cases.

Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children

Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children investigates several children growing up in today's Zimbabwe and how they live their day-to-day life. These kids are trapped in a cycle of poverty, where hope and dreams are the only remedy to press on.

The Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara

Experience one of the biggest, longest and heaviest trains in the world - a massive iron ore train running across Mauritania's Sahara desert nicknamed the "Backbone of the Sahara".

The Eskimo: Fight for Life

Brought to life by arctic anthropologists, this documentary film follows the life of the Netsilik Inuit of the Pelly Bay region of the Canadian Arctic in 1970.

Down from the Mountains

This documentary follows the lives of three children from the Yi ethnic group in China. They are statistically part of a 9 million “left-behind children” raising themselves in the Chinese countryside.

Loved by All: The Story about Apa Sherpa

This short film follows the reality, life, and struggles of a young Sherpa in Nepal - he is one of many who has set aside his own dreams to survive in an otherwise poverty stricken Himalaya area.

A Tale of Love and Honor: Life in Gion

Within Japan, there's a place that's like another world: Gion, in Kyoto. When night falls in this historic district, nearly 100 geiko come out to entertain.

Children Full of Life

A fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori.

Breaking the Cycle

The director of Halden prison, Norway's most humane prison, visits american prisons trying to encourage to change the ways of rehabilitation in prison.

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