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.
Fists of Pride follows Little Tiger and his fellow fighters as their Thai coaches prepare them for t...
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.
Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless rede...
DREAMING NICARAGUA is a film about HOPE. It's about love for the dignity and courage of the human sp...
This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadia...
Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 riding along with patrol officers in th...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
RHINO MAN follows the courageous field rangers who risk their lives every day to protect South Afric...
There are thousands of people working as scrap workers in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana, and Abdallah i...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two dist...
This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing proje...
The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project conce...
Corruption, political instability and social poverty are explored in this tense documentary film chr...
"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Progr...
"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change...
Documentary collecting some experiences of the first two years of the "Gira interminable" tour were ...
DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...
Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this ...