How about dark, horrible things that are happening now? Be warned, these are hard to watch.
The Dark Side of Chocolate – a journalistic documentary revealing the slave labor behind the manufacturing of chocolate.
Albino Killings in Africa – Tanzanian albinos are being hunted because witchdoctors are spreading the belief that albinos possess a magical power. They believe that body parts from albinos can make you rich, so they make potions and charms from albinos’ legs, hair, hands, and blood.
The Dying Rooms – Filmmakers study systematic neglect of abandoned babies in Chinese state-run orphanages where the weakest and least-liked children are deliberately left to die in “dark rooms”.