Examples of social realism

Murdered by My Boyfriend is a full drama documentary about a life of a young girl and how she was abused and murdered by her boyfriend. This drama explores the lead up to which the boyfriend murders his girlfriend and explores the manipulation that the boyfriend has on the girlfriend.

This is a very good example on domestic abuse and explores the codes and conventions of the genre of social realism as the part of the genre untrained actors are used within the drama.