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.

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

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.

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...

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

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncerta...

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

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

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

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

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

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

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

The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it ...

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

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