Poverty Movies

DREAMING NICARAGUA is a film about HOPE. It's about love for the dignity and courage of the human spirit that, even immersed in uttermost tragic...

A short film documenting the time the filmmaker spent in Kenya.

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...

Mrs. Lucha, an old woman from a poor village, discovers a magical tree which blooms bread instead of fruits. Carried away by greed, she sells the...

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.

Over 300,000 children were given food aid in the UK last year. While politicians argue about why so many kids are experiencing food poverty, we ask...

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...

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

"...Gurudasi Mondol, who roams the streets of her small town in Southern Bangladesh and is known as a mad woman who takes money from passersby at...

A documentary filmed in late 2005 that brings the viewer close to the living conditions and unresolved problems for Palestinian refugees in the...

There are thousands of people working as scrap workers in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana, and Abdallah is one of them. Like the majority, Abdallah is...

A tragic account of the poverty and desperation in the once-prosperous nation of Zimbabwe.

For many years, the Swiss photographer Jean-Claude Wicky captured the world of Bolivian miners in photographs. When he discovered how strongly they...

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

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...

Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles.

This film was shot in Cuba in 1994. The opportunity came when Russel Porter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, was invited to teach at the...

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...

Nanay Mayang, a single mother who makes ends meet by selling bananacue each day, struggles to provide for her two children, Toto and Nene. With their...