Poverty Movies

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

Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bringing psychoanalysis to Latino communities. It...

Buddha's Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who, armed only with his master boxing skills, wages an...

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very...

Children from a wealthy family are playing in a garden. They encounter poor children, looking sad and sickly, who watch them play with envy. Moved to...

Using an embedded Iraqi camera crew, AFI has delivered an unprecedented look at life inside post-war Iraq, all from the unique perspective of a...

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

In a society where voluntary death has become an official way to help families facing financial hardship, a young man decides to give his life for...

Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles.

A short documentary exploring the grueling cycle of child labor in Pakistan through the story of two children, one working at a brick kiln and the...

As we live through the deepest cost of living crisis for over fifty years, archive footage of Yorkshire and the North East reflects recurring cycles...

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...

In 1985 a picturesque Argentinian holiday town was completely flooded, not to re-emerge until 2009. Now only Pablo remains in this modern day...

Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett shows us in this groundbreaking documentary a new face of poverty in America. About 50 million people in...

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

Far West Nepal, where maximum labour migration to Bombay happens, is reeling under the impact of an HIV micro epidemic. This documentary is an in...

FATE. POVERTY. SYSTEM

In the midst of economic hardship, a genius older brother is forced to conduct scientific research on how to become the ideal street busker in order...