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.

Author and activist Jane Jacobs talks about the problems and virtues of North American cities.

As Niagara Falls transformed from honeymoon capital of the world to Las Vegas North, corporate hotel...

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.

Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect s...

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourho...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...

A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: ...

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

Migrants from the countryside and unemployed people from neighbouring cities take over some unused l...
Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bring...

Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-...