Poverty Movies

Following four Lakota families over three years, Homeland explores what it takes for the Lakota community to build a better future in the face of...

After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to...

Al Levin examines the system which functions to keep the working class in the United States oppressed.

A documentary on young black children living in Toronto public housing.

After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence of many years. While waiting for the liberating...

Dario, a young lower-class, graduated from a management training academy is convinced to be prepared to achieve fortune. In search of a job, he gets...

Fists of Pride follows Little Tiger and his fellow fighters as their Thai coaches prepare them for the annual Water Festival competition. In a boxing...

In the 1950s, Seattle had plans to build one of the densest networks of freeways in the world. It would have displaced thousands, especially the poor...

A cleaner lives a routine life full of poverty and trouble, dreaming of becoming a minister in charge of three different ministries, and comedy...

The intimate life of the mythical Candy Dubois, from her childhood in a correctional facility to her success with the "Blue Ballet" in the great "BIM...

Amy is taken on a impromptu camping trip by her Dad on her 15th Birthday. Along with her little brother, the endless summer turns into an inescapable...

A silent film depicting the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, a final destination for ships too old to ply the oceans. Every year,...

Yaguiné and Fodé, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and...

Restricted by a low economical life and his caste identity, Amitabh, a law graduate, becomes a Manual Scavenger. One day, he gets inside a sewer to...

Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles.

Sometimes it feels like we live in different worlds. But really, we're not that far away.

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....