This documentary portrays the front-line street workers who serve the needy under the umbrella of the Salvation Army. Shot in Toronto at Christmastime, the film chronicles the small hopes and tiny victories of life lived below the poverty line and the daily rewards for those who work to serve others.
Following director Rotimi Rainwater, a former homeless youth, as he travels the country to shine a l...
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...
On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patie...
3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It’s one of the worst rates in the industr...
Some 240,000 women over 55 are at risk of homelessness In Australia – a figure both surprising (owin...
49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-base...
A homeless man living in a encampment in Minneapolis tells his perspective on the ongoing crisis of ...
A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.
Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers t...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the ...
Documentary collecting some experiences of the first two years of the "Gira interminable" tour were ...
From the glitzy sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard to the urban wasteland of Skid Row, "Forgotten" por...
A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two dist...
The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neo...
Shows a campaign launched in Halifax in 1967 to probe the core of poverty in that city--low incomes,...
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.
Fists of Pride follows Little Tiger and his fellow fighters as their Thai coaches prepare them for t...