As Niagara Falls transformed from honeymoon capital of the world to Las Vegas North, corporate hotel chains and casinos cast a long shadow over the independent motels that once populated the town. The Continental survived the transition by converting its rooms into affordable housing units, becoming a home for those with few places to go. The night manager, Brian, once a freelance photographer who survived the horrors of war in Vietnam, shares his duties with his colleague Linda. Together they manage both the Continental and the individual struggles of its tenants, providing more than a roof over the heads of those who live under their supervision. Bringing a fresh focus to one of the most photographed places on Earth, director and cinematographer Jesse McCracken develops an intimate and caring portrait of the residents of this modest micro-community set against the backdrop of neon-lit tourist attractions.

Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight fo...

10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese soc...

Now a successful filmmaker, Lorna Tucker was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of...

Waifs, homeless, derelicts, almsmen, others, forgettens, outcasts, unwanteds. The Hotel of Waifs; a ...

A group of musicians who have never met get together for a week to live in a mansion to write an alb...

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

Inspired by the original micropub craze in Kent, three entrepreneurial Londoners decide to open thei...

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-base...

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that...

Sometimes, finding your tribe requires a bit of magic. For attendees of a live action role-playing (...

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of N...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

In the early eighties, the tough trucker Harm married the shy, country girl Siepie. Thirty years lat...

In 1999, 11-year-old Nisha Platzer lost her older brother, Josh, to suicide. Twenty years later, her...

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox ...

On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes thr...

Homelessness in the United States takes many forms. For Elizabeth Herrera, David Lima and their four...

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

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

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