In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inner city Sydney. An outpouring of social and political goodwill followed, with the then Prime Minister pledging to halve homelessness by 2020. A decade later, with social inequality and homelessness worse than ever, the original participants reflect on where their lives have taken them.

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

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

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...

A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimat...
A homeless man living in a encampment in Minneapolis tells his perspective on the ongoing crisis of ...

Geri is a serious drug addict, using designer drugs intravenously. Between two flashes, he lives an ...

Pablo Escobar was the richest, most powerful drug kingpin in the world, ruling the Medellin Cartel w...

This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion e...

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-base...
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

In the early 1970s, a group of young volunteers, the Free Youth Clinic of Winnipeg, operated a "cris...

A short documentary following the last 5 hours of a 59-years-old man, Ahmed before becoming homeless...

Psychedelic surfer documentary. Also see http://encyclopediaofsurfing.com/entries/drugs-and-surfing

The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de ...

Mariem, 53, a former estate agent, has been living at a shelter for several months. Surrounded by wo...

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

After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy...

In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have tu...

The stranger-than-fiction true story of a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy, and a Cuban spy who team...