Los Angeles' Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable and enormously moving stories of Olympic athletes, Harvard attorneys, accomplished musicians, scholars. We found poverty, drugs and mental illness, of course - but more importantly we found life, hope and incredibly powerful human journeys.
In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, a group of friends lives on the streets. They call themsel...
An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addicti...
Habiba Djahnine went to meet activists who continue to take action. To meet them, to capture them in...
Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of H...
Swedish documentary from the Gothenburg area about young drug abusers.
“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lo...
Addiction is an all-encompassing force, in not only the lives of the afflicted, but also those aroun...
Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s,...
Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordi...
Portrait of the Sunshine Hotel, a flop house on the Bowery in New York's skid row. We meet Vic, the ...
The inspiring account on international bodyboarding star Luz 'Loly' Grande - a young woman on a pers...
Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the i...
This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to...
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of N...
Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, a...
Every day in the United States, law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal levels—inc...
This film describes the 1960s drug culture. Addicts discuss their experiences in the United States a...