Research into finding out more about each goal and the issues and current problems. Visual representations appeal to a youthful generation who have constant access to sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime, making it easy to share and raise awareness of each individual goal. Lots of documentaries will cover more than one goal, and give a great insight into current issues and what's being done. This sense of transparency allows people who are active in educating themselves on these matters to see physically what's going in other countries, and be given accurate and non-bias facts.
Lots of these documentaries overlap into other goals, therefore cover the spectrum of the issues behind what the goals are getting at. There is a substantial amount of data and legitimate / reliable documentaries here to add to an app and/or website page that can be easily translated to a user.
For example, the list of goals on a page, click on a goal, a list of documentaries, click on the documentary a link to the trailer.
1. No poverty
About: Educates people on where donations and charity money actually go, meaning they can make more informed decisions and are more aware of the other side / government actions
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2. Zero Hunger
About: Food Poverty in the US
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Doc: We Feed the World
About: This award winning documentary takes a critical look at the origin and production of our food by highlighting the contradiction between global hunger in the developing world and the overproduction of food in the developed world. This film is the winner of the best documentary award from the Guild of German Art House Cinemas and winner of two film awards from Croatia's Motovun Film Festival. (Erwin Wagenhofer, 2005, 96 minutes)
3. Good Health & Well-being
About: Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary, How to Survive a Plague traces how grassroots activists gamed the system and forced the FDA to approve protease inhibitors, a breakthrough that’s saved millions of lives. Activist-turned-director David France pored through more than 700 hours of archival footage—from ACT UP and Treatment Action Group (TAG) archives, television news reports, and even personal recordings—to let those who were there tell the story.
Doc: Fire in the Blood
About: While HIV treatments are better than ever, greed and bureaucracy keep meds out of reach of many. Spanning four continents, director Dylan Mohan Gray’s trenchant investigation is an indictment of the First World’s control of funding and resources when lives are on the line. The film is available for instant streaming on Netflix.
4. Quality Education
Doc: Girl Rising
About: Education crisis and inequality amongst women in the developing world - what they go through and various stories from girls from different Asian countries
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Some children are more equal than others documentary
About the inequality of education in South Africa
5. Gender Equality
BBC Doc: All That Stands In The Way
About: following the lives of four teenage girls in Jordan, Lesotho, Iceland & UK in an effort to understand the roots of gender inequality. There is no country in the world where men and women are equal.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayj9EVc2ZLI
Doc: It's A Girl
About: In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called "gendercide".
This imbalance leads to increased sex trafficking, prostitution and, in China, kidnapping girls for brides. In India, a quarter of girls don’t survive to puberty.
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Doc: No Woman No Cry
About: The hour-long film follows several women around the world as they deal with barriers facing women during pregnancy. It lets viewers see such moments as doctors brusquely dismissing poor pregnant women in Bangladesh to post-abortion care in Guatemala (where nobody says the word abortion). As the narrative jumps from Turlington Burn’s New York apartment to Tanzanian hospitals, we see that women from all economic backgrounds are affected by maternal healthcare.
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Doc: Half The Sky
About: uplifting stories of women around the world who are fighting back against systemic oppression. The film presents gender equality as the unfinished business of the our time and highlights women who are working to improve everything from healthcare to education.
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6. Clean Water & Sanitation
Doc: Flow: For The Love of Water
About: Award-winning documentary investigation by Irena Salina into the growing privatisation of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply. Salina focuses on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. She uses interviews with scientists and activists to reveal the rapidly building water crisis at both the global and human scale. Rather than just focusing on the problem, FLOW also provides examples of people and institutions that are working toward practical solutions to the water crisis.
Doc: Thirst
About: The world is poised on the brink of epochal changes in how water is stored, used, and valued. Is water part of a shared “commons,” a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded in a global marketplace? Thirst investigates the privatisation of water and tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking these fundamental questions.
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Doc: Growing Up In Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TltNEG1SjoM
About: Africa is the continent with the highest percentage of children with AIDS, orphans, forced to work nine hours a day for seven days a week in prostitution or suffering from various types of slavery.
7. Affordable & Clean Energy
About: Filmmaker James Redford examines the dawn of the clean energy era.
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Doc: Earth 2050 THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ki5fX9M7JY
Doc: The breakthrough in renewable energy - (VPRO documentary - 2016)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyrbKBZ6SU
8. Decent Work & Economic Growth
Doc: 'Will Work For Free' (2013)
About: The film explores the potential for automation in every sector of employment and questions the integrity of our methods of resource distribution going into the future.
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Doc: 'Generation Jobless'
About: A Canadian documentary about the issues with debt and getting a job in the current economic state - issues with university and so on
Sweden: Young and Jobless | European Journal
Short Story on unemployment in Sweden - one of the most developed countries. About: One young person in three in Sweden doesn't have a job. During an election campaign, that's a heavy burden on the government, which vowed to take up the fight against youth unemployment. Now it's still stubbornly high, which is a bad sign for this welfare-conscious country. Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt promised to improve the situation. After initial progress, though, the global slump hit Sweden and worsened job prospects for the young. The employers' association sees two causes of the problem: Excessively high entry-level pay and professional training that doesn't reflect the companies' actual needs. Now the private sector is supposed to get more involved.
9. Industry, Innovation &
Infrastructure
https://impact.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5zaq/watch-vices-new-documentary-the-third-industrial-revolution-a-radical-new-sharing-economy
BBC 2018 Doc: The World in 2050 [The Real Future of Earth]
Doc: 'The Chinese are Coming' BBC Documentary 2011
About: Travelling across three continents, Justin Rowlatt investigates the spread of Chinese influence around the planet and asks what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower. While many in the West view Africa as a land of poverty, to the Chinese it is seen as an almost limitless business opportunity. He then crosses Brazil and the United States on an epic journey as he continues to investigate the spread of Chinese influence around the planet. In Rio, local industries, including bikini factories, are threatened by cheap Chinese imports, and in the Amazon, Justin witnesses the phenomenal impact of the Chinese hunger for resources on the indigenous people and the environment. In the US, from California to the rust belt, he encounters the rising undercurrent of American fury over their own decline in the face of competition from China.
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Doc: 'The Chinese are Coming' BBC Documentary 2011
About: Travelling across three continents, Justin Rowlatt investigates the spread of Chinese influence around the planet and asks what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower. While many in the West view Africa as a land of poverty, to the Chinese it is seen as an almost limitless business opportunity. He then crosses Brazil and the United States on an epic journey as he continues to investigate the spread of Chinese influence around the planet. In Rio, local industries, including bikini factories, are threatened by cheap Chinese imports, and in the Amazon, Justin witnesses the phenomenal impact of the Chinese hunger for resources on the indigenous people and the environment. In the US, from California to the rust belt, he encounters the rising undercurrent of American fury over their own decline in the face of competition from China.
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10. Reduced Inequalities
Doc: The End of Poverty
Doc: The End of Poverty
About: Intellectuals, economists and others discuss global economic woes and the plight of those who must live in poverty. Activist filmmaker Philippe Diaz examines the history and impact of economic inequality in the third world
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11. Sustainable Cities &
Communities
Doc: City Slums - Megacity Problems
About: Problems of urbanisation in ELDCs of India and Brazil. Mumbai (Bombay) India, Asia and Rio de Janerio, Brazil, South America case studies.
Doc: Favela Rising
About: Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.
12. Responsible Consumption & Production
Doc: The Ivory Game
About: Ivory is a prised status symbol for middle-class Chinese, and poachers in pursuit of white gold are slaughtering African elephants in record numbers. Filmmakers went under cover for 16 months, infiltrating and documenting the deep-rooted corruption at the heart of the global ivory trafficking crisis.
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13. Climate Action
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Doc: Time To Chose
About:Time to Choose explores the climate change challenge and takes an in-depth look at what solutions are already available all around the world.
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14. Life Below Water
Doc: Blue Planet 2, ep 10
Doc: Chasing Coral
About: Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. Divers, photographers and scientists set out on an ocean adventure to discover why the reefs are disappearing and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
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15. Life on Land
16. Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
Doc: Living On One Dollar
About: In a world where over 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 per day, a group of four friends and filmmakers set off for rural Guatemala to learn what this really means. The boys spend 8 long weeks living in extreme poverty, battling hunger and sickness while experiencing the resilience and generosity of those they meet.
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Doc: Virunga
About: Four characters fighting to protect Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to the world's last mountain gorillas, from war, poaching, and the threat of oil exploration.
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Doc: E-Team
About: Four dedicated individuals journey to the frontlines in Syria and Libya to investigate allegations of human rights violations- and challenge the leaders responsible. Members of Human Rights Watch’s ‘Emergencies Team,’ they have been trained to respond to some of the most dangerous crises of our time, giving a voice to the victims of ruthless dictators and shining a light on injustices the rest of the world may otherwise not see.
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17. Partnership for the Goals
Three Seconds - Short Film
This four-minute short film won one of the main prizes at the UN’s Connect4Climate video competition. Richard Williams – better known by his stage name Prince Ea – is a spoken word artist, poet, rapper and filmmaker. For the duration of the film, Williams sits on a beach and points out that if you would condense the Earth’s lifespan into 24 hours, humans have existed for just three seconds.
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