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.

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.

In the midst of a catastrophic steel industry collapse, a remarkable grassroots community effort lea...

Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett shows us in this groundbreaking documentary a new face of ...

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

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

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

J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...

A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on...

Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives...
Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bring...

A former lawyer leaves everything behind to embark on the quest for a dinosaur-like animal supposedl...

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

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

The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project conce...

The documentary offers an overview of the district of Cidade Tiradentes and its inhabitants. It sta...