Poverty Movies
- 2015
Ghost Town to Havana
Ghost Town to Havana02015HD
A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his...
- 2006
What the Sun Saw
What the Sun Saw4.72006HD
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to...
- 2013
American Winter
American Winter72013HD
Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great...
- 1967
Halifax Neighbourhood Center Project
Halifax Neighbourhood Center Project01967HD
Shows a campaign launched in Halifax in 1967 to probe the core of poverty in that city--low incomes, ill health and inadequate housing affect more...
- 1980
80 Blocks from Tiffany's
80 Blocks from Tiffany's6.5871980HD
This 1979 documentary depicts the daily life of gangs in the South Bronx. It deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known...
- 1997
Mama General
Mama General01997HD
A film about poverty in a rich country: father, mother, seven children have made it out of the homeless asylum. The author met the Cologne family B....
- 1985
Butterfly and Flowers
Butterfly and Flowers6.31985HD
Highlights the hardships faced by a boy who works selling popsicles at the local train station and forced by economic circumstance to smuggle rice...
- 2021
Nun Nancy
Nun Nancy02021HD
Nun Nancy follows the heartfelt ministry of a passionate woman of God that served the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland disguised as a bartender so...
- 2018
Ramps to Nowhere
Ramps to Nowhere02018HD
A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s....
- 2021
Dreams
Dreams02021HD
These are the future leaders of their communities. Ever wonder what it’s like to walk a day in their shoes? How the world looks through their...
- 1975
Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom
Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom01975HD
After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to...
- 1922
Las Hurdes, país de leyenda
Las Hurdes, país de leyenda41922HD
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in the...
- 2023
Nayda
Nayda02023HD
In a desperate attempt to make their voices heard by the government, two men and a woman, living in difficult circumstances in the Tin Shacks, take a...
- 2013
Los posibles
Los posibles72013HD
Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofri Barbato. Although it would have been more...
- 2020
Colors
Colors02020HD
Colors explores the bonds of a young family living in the Bronx. They are displaced after unforeseen circumstances take the family to unexpected...
- 1997
Les Vacances
Les Vacances51997HD
Anne doesn't have enough money to take her daughter, Mélody, away from the small provincial town where they live for a few days during the...
- 1985
Havlandet
Havlandet01985HD
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous...
- 2014
Nabat
Nabat6.22014HD
The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son...
- 2019
The Divided Soul of America
The Divided Soul of America6.32019HD
Under the Trump administration, USA is a deeply divided country. One side feeds populism and religious rectitude in a monochromatic landscape,...
- 2020
The Precariat Society
The Precariat Society02020HD
A third of Europeans live in economic insecurity: Zero hours contracts, the fear of redundancy and stagnating wages have brought more and more people...