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.

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

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

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

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

The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it ...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath i...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...

For many years, the Swiss photographer Jean-Claude Wicky captured the world of Bolivian miners in ph...

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

The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration si...