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.
"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dism...

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

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

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the i...

For almost half of his life, Kenneth Viken has been in prison, and he does not know how many times h...
Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the ...

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

A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: ...

1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, Californi...
A homeless man living in a encampment in Minneapolis tells his perspective on the ongoing crisis of ...

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.

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

DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...

Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers t...

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the is...

A documentary about homeless people living in Switzerland.