Free Social Sciences 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.

This short documentary from NobelPrize.org examines the mystery of memory and the discoveries that have been made regarding it throughout the history of neuroscience.

Watch this enjoyable documentary from National Geographic and Stanford University, featuring neurobiologist and Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky.

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.

Children of Darkness is a 1983 American documentary film produced by Ara Chekmayan and Richard Kotuk. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

On the Record presents Drew Dixon's story in the aftermath of alleged abuse by her boss and hip-hop mogul, Russell Simmons.

Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street is a 1999 documentary directed by Steven Okazaki. Filmed from 1995 to 1998 in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, the documentary describes the lives of heroin addicts.

Watch this entertaining documentary from 1972 which is hosted and narrated by Orson Welles. Adapted from Alvin Toffler's book of the same name, the film defines "future shock" as "too much change in too short a period of time".

This hour-long audio documentary from American RadioWorks is an excellent introduction to great African American speakers of the last century.

In this PBS NOVA documentary, neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks weighs in on four unique cases of music and the brain.