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.
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.
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percepti...
Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on...
As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and d...
Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the is...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs o...
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, h...
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...
When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter were...
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of N...
After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the colle...
Documentary film about a slum community on the outskirts of Recife, a major city in northeastern Bra...
49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-base...
Following four Lakota families over three years, Homeland explores what it takes for the Lakota comm...
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...
A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.