New documentaries you need to watch to understand Trump's 100 first days

While rapper Jay Z is working on a six-episode documentary series on racial inequality in Trump's America, other recent background films can help us grasp the issues the US president has been dealing with for the past 100 days. Other documentaries reveal how his political circle is organized - and how he ticks.

The first season of this political docu-series followed the 2016 presidential race. Now in its second season, this Showtime program covers Trump's first 100 days in office by exploring the stories behind the headlines. A feature film made out of the material collected during season one of "The Circus," entitled "Trumped: Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time," also premiered at Sundance.

This documentary on Trump's adviser and longtime Republican operative, Roger Stone, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival before its upcoming Netflix release on May 12. The man has been influencing US politics for decades - for the worse, just like a "malevolent Forrest Gump," says journalist Jeffrey Toobin in the film. The backgrounder reveals how deeply interconnected Stone and Trump are.

BBC director Adam Curtis (pictured) is renowned for his cult signature style, combining weird archive footage with overarching historical storytelling. When he released "HyperNormalisation" in October 2016, a 165-minute film charting the rise of post-truth politics, he was criticized for focusing on Donald Trump - then still believed to be a short-lived phenomenon. Who were those critics again?

Shortly before his 100th day in office, Trump postponed funding to his US-Mexico border wall to avoid a spending freeze. Fiercely opposed by many politicians, it remains to be seen if his campaign pledge will ever be fulfilled. In the meantime, further arguments against it are found in "La Frontera," which follows a man walking along the whole border, meeting the people who live and work there.

The trailer for this follow-up to former Vice President's Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" came out on March 28, opening with Trump complaining he wished for more global warming. That same day, the US president signed an executive order curbing the enforcement of climate regulations - and added two more in that vein just before reaching his 100-day mark. The film hits theaters on July 28.

Another one of Trump's main campaign promises was to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. That hasn't worked out yet, as the president failed to secure his party members' vote last March for a replacement plan. A short Vox documentary meets Trump voters in the sate of Kentucky - people who directly benefited from the plan - to understand what they were hoping for.

"You've Been Trumped" (2011) featured Trump's construction of a luxury golf course on a Scottish coastline and the ensuing disputes he had with the local residents. Refusing to sell their land, a family had their water supply cut off - an ongoing situation, as this follow-up film shows. The documentary "reveals the corporate, sociopathic nature of Trump's political vision," writes "The Guardian."

Trump's first months of presidency were also overshadowed by FBI inquiries into Russia's possible intervention in the elections. This is part of Oscar-winner Laura Poitras' new film on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, "Risk." Following the US Justice Department's recent declaration that his arrest was a "priority," the filmmaker is now updating the doc just before its theatrical release on May 5.

One of Trump's unusually more popular moves since January was the airstrike on Syria - which, however, didn't impact the country's ability to wage war. Trump's failed travel ban is more emblematic of his views towards Muslim refugees. A must-see film for him to change that will be "City of Ghosts," described as "the definitive Syria documentary" by "The Guardian." It will be released on July 7.