DOCUMENTARIES
Eight documentaries by award winning filmmakers.
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Poor Us: an animated history
Do we know what poverty is? (58mins)
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Welcome to the World
Born poor, die poor? (58mins)
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Park Avenue
How much inequality is too much? (58mins)
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Land Rush
How do you feed the world? (58mins)
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Give us the Money
How do you change the world? (58mins)
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Stealing Africa
How much profit is fair? (58mins)
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Solar Mamas
Are women better at getting out of poverty than men? (58mins)
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Education, Education
What does an education get you? (58mins)
Short films
Short documentaries by filmmakers from all around the world.
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Morris’ Bag
Kenya: can you feed a family out of bag?
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Love and Rubbish
Russia: if you live in poverty, can you afford to dream?
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The Thread
Uruguay: can microfinance fix a 15th birthday?
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Wilbur Goes Poor: Episode 1
India: is this poverty?
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Miseducation
South Africa: What would you risk to get an education?
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God is Rain
Kenya: what happens when the water runs out?
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In Your Hands
Colombia: surrounded by violence, what do you do?
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Poop on Poverty
India: great photo opportunity or harsh reality?
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Town and Country
China: is the grass always greener?
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Colours in the Dust
Haiti: can a boy paint his way out of poverty?
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Afghan Girl
Afghanistan: Teacher? Engineer? Shepherd?
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Lullaby
Germany: do the poor sleep well?
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Wilbur Goes Poor: Episode 3
India: how do YOU deal with poverty?
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Wilbur Goes Poor: Episode 2
India: caste - a cause of poverty and discrimination?
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Waste
Global: why can't we feed the world?
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Finding Josephine
Uganda: who benefits from charity?
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New Poor
Spain: who are the new poor?
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Hunger for Profit
USA/Kenya: how can you make money out of hunger?
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Voices: Bolivia
Bolivia: what do you have in your heart?
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Voices: South Africa
South Africa: what keeps you going?
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Coal Boy
India: digging to the other end of the world?
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OK brothers
India: worst job in the world?
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Sea Gypsies
Malaysia: the cost of tourism?
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The Barrel
Venezuela: sink or swim?
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The Crisis and the Sunglasses
Greece: is anyone safe from poverty?
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A Beggar's Loan
Bangladesh: from begging to business?
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Mama Illegal
Moldova: love or money?
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Mauá Surroundings
Brazil: a new way to fight homelessness
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The Car's Got To Go
UK: I've come about your car...
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Holiday From Poverty
UK: Imagine you'd never been on holiday
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Birhan's Story
Ethiopia: The “Poster Girl for Starvation”
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Whose Land?
Mali: Land Grab or Business Opportunity?
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A Girl's Day
Brazil: A teenager needs space to grow.
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This is Camden Calling
There's nothing worse than having nowhere
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Birth
Does it matter where you're born?
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Dreaming Reality
Whose nightmare is it?
News & More
Other films including news clips and debates and events.
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Why Poverty?
Ask why?
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Why Poverty? at the UN
The discussion from our launch at the UN
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Highlights from Why Poverty? launch
The best of the discussion from our UN launch
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DR Debatten Why Poverty?
Debate in Copenhagen, 14 November
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Why Poverty? BBC World Debate
Why Poverty? BBC World Debate - 24 November
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Why Poverty? @IDFA: Solar Mamas
19 November 2012
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Why Poverty? @IDFA: Poor Us
20 November 2012
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Why Poverty? @IDFA: Give Us The Money
21 November 2012
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Why Poverty? Animation
Ask Why!
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Bo Lindquist Interview
Give us the Money - Why Poverty?
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Why Povert? Project Trailer
Join a global debate! Watch amazing films! Ask why!!
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Trailer: Poor Us: an animated history
Do we know what poverty is?
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Trailer: Welcome to the World
Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor?
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Trailer: Give us the Money
How do you change the world?
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Trailer: Education, Education
What does an education get you?
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Trailer: Stealing Africa
How much profit is fair?
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Trailer: Park Avenue
How much inequality is too much?
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Trailer: Solar Mamas
Are women better at getting out of poverty than men?
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Trailer: Land Rush
How do you feed the world?