Free Political Documentaries

The Silent Scream is a 1984 anti-abortion educational film directed by Jack Duane Dabner and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician, NARAL Pro-Choice America founder, and abortion provider turned pro-life activist, and produced in partnership with the National Right to Life Committee.

Watch this brutal documentary on the invasion of Mariupol, Ukraine, by Russian forces in 2022.

The PBS Frontline series are some of the best documentaries available on public television, but it's often difficult to carve out time to sit down and watch them. Now Frontline has released over 100 of their documentaries as audio podcasts and they actually work really well as just audio.

The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court takes an unprecedented look into the Supreme Court, its role, traditions and history of the Court featuring interviews with all the sitting and retired Justices.

Seeing Red is a 1983 American documentary film directed by Jim Klein and Julia Reichert. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978.

The documentary unit of APM Reports (formerly American RadioWorks) has produced more than 140 programs on topics such as health, history, education and justice.

Landmark radio programmes from the BBC World Service archive.

Former president Jimmy Carter embarks on a tour of his non-fiction book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and speaks at various book signings.

After 30 years, America's War on drugs costs U.S. taxpayers $40 billion a year with no victory in sight....