Shows a campaign launched in Halifax in 1967 to probe the core of poverty in that city--low incomes, ill health and inadequate housing affect more than twelve thousand people in the central area. The project combines the efforts of local agencies with those of government agencies to alleviate these conditions.
As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and d...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percepti...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But ...
Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the is...
Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places...
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...
The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration si...
In the midst of a catastrophic steel industry collapse, a remarkable grassroots community effort lea...
MADE IN SERBIA portrays the Serbian video porn industry by presenting four life stories of domestic ...
This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stim...
A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called ...
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was onc...
A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on...