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Poverty, Inc. is a 91-minute documentary inquiry into the nature of human flourishing and the effects of the multibillion dollar poverty industrial complex erected to promote it. The film challenges current perceptions of global charity and promotes entrepreneurship as an effective alternative to alleviating world poverty. [ 1 ]
The End of Poverty? is a 2008 documentary film about poverty directed by Philippe Diaz. It is narrated by Martin Sheen and was produced by Cinema Libre Studio in association with the non-profit Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. The film was selected for the international critic's week award at the 2008 Cannes Festival.
To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America is a 2010 documentary film directed and produced by Gayle Ferraro about the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner's ongoing campaign against poverty around the world.
The film won best documentary for the audience award at the Sonoma International Film Festival. Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus calls it "a must watch film, that provides a unique look into the hardship and hope of life in extreme poverty."
Documentary films about poverty in the United States (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about poverty" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
While I Run This Race is a 1967 American short documentary film about poverty in the United States directed by Edmond Levy. [1] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [2] [3]
Inequality for All is a 2013 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth and narrated by American economist, author and professor Robert Reich.Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States.
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton has two storylines, both of which show the impoverished lives of residents in the American South.The documentary draws the connection—a vicious cycle—between poverty and the lack of educational opportunity for black people living in the Mississippi Delta, over 150 years after the abolition of slavery.