List of Movies on Netflix by genre: Social Issue Dramas

After one of his high school students attacks him, dedicated teacher Trevor Garfield grows weary of the gang warfare in the New York City school system and moves to California to teach there, thinking it must be a less hostile environment.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.

A neo-Nazi gets sent to prison for murder and comes out a changed man. But can he prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps?

After the end of apartheid, newly elected President Nelson Mandela uses the 1995 World Cup rugby matches to unite his people in South Africa.

A man cured of leprosy and a young orphan leave their colony for the first time to travel across Egypt, hoping to find the families they lost.

A pampered heir must complete a year of service work to inherit his dad's assets but unearths new goals when he's placed in an unfamiliar region.

A teacher turns to a dubious man to raise money for her daughter's life-saving surgery, a crisis that is unexpectedly catapulted to a national stage.

Three brothers -- a gangster, a scholar and an impressionable teen -- learn hard lessons in the gritty suburbs while searching for the means to survive.

When Chris and his son are evicted, they face trying times as a desperate Chris accepts an unpaid internship at a stock brokerage firm.

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of people from all walks of life converge during a 36-hour period.