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.
49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-base...
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.
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...
The intimate life of the mythical Candy Dubois, from her childhood in a correctional facility to her...
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percepti...
Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofr...
Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...
One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...
Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the is...
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...
Upon his release from prison, an ex-convict returns to his beloved city of Genoa, and to his lover.
The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration si...
In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have tu...
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The f...
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But ...
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of N...
When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter were...