A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they...

A look at the legacy of Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 in reshaping global charity and politics. Feat...

The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.

Four famous volunteers try to untangle the complicated reasons and life choices that lie behind Brit...

In the midst of unprecedented national prosperity in the 1960s, poverty was "rediscovered" by Americ...

Four famous volunteers agree to swap their fame and fortune for a world of joblessness, job-hunting ...

Two seasoned drug dealers return to the gritty street of London, but their pursuit of money and powe...

The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp...

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcra...

Maria is an orphan girl who suffers from her stepmother's wickedness. She then decides to escape in ...

A young man gets entangled in a kidnap-for-ransom situation. He offers the kidnappers all his hard-e...

When Zhang Nan was a child, his mother was imprisoned because she had fought with the villagers over...

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h...

In a story of two men switched at birth, noble-born Chun Doong lives as a slave and becomes a heroic...

Plague decimates late 16th century Seville, a crowded city where many have arrived to embark for the...

Yukiya Ayase is a gentle, kindhearted, and innocent university student. The only relative he has lef...