Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Kristof's hometown of Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?

Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One P...

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

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the is...
This documentary from 1987 looks at the serious malaise that plagued the US manufacturing sector at ...

This feature documentary reveals how Bank of Montreal chairman William Mulholland dealt with his deb...

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

Zeitgeist: Addendum premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival. Director Peter Joseph stated...

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has os...

Three "lost" decades of economic stagnation since the collapse of Japan's bubble era have fundamenta...

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

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out ...

A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/...

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they l...

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

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

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective...