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.

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

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

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, a...

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

The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...

Under Dorchester Square in Montreal lies the cemetery where 55,000 people were buried in the 19th ce...

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...

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

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

Djibi and Ange, two teenagers living on the streets, arrive at the Archipel, an emergency shelter in...

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuan...

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

DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...