In the midst of unprecedented national prosperity in the 1960s, poverty was "rediscovered" by American policy makers, media and the public. This series examines how the poor fared during these years and the resultant evolution of foundation and public sector programs addressing the challenges of poverty.
The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.
Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they...
Four famous volunteers try to untangle the complicated reasons and life choices that lie behind Brit...
Four famous volunteers agree to swap their fame and fortune for a world of joblessness, job-hunting ...
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
A look at the legacy of Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 in reshaping global charity and politics. Feat...
Ichiko unwittingly absorbs happiness energy from everyone around her. It’s up to the poverty god Mom...
The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp...
Totoy Bato is a boxing-themed Philippine drama from GMA Network, based on the graphic novel created ...
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections...
France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in lif...
By inscrutable vagaries of fate, an immensely rich family becomes moderately poor, and a moderately ...
When Zhang Nan was a child, his mother was imprisoned because she had fought with the villagers over...