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Showing 1 - 10 of 137 titles with a criteria of Subject is Poverty
Abortion Helpline
At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes
Aiming High
Focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.
Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 26 minutes
The Bad Kids
An extraordinary principal’s journey to help her students realize their potential
GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 101 minutes
The Bad Kids
An extraordinary principal’s journey to help her students realize their potential
GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 84 minutes
Because They're Worth It
Micro-credit, education, health information, and hope provided to impoverished Chinese.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes
Birth on the Border
Seeking a safer future for their children, two women from Ciudad Juárez, risk harassment at the hands of Border Patrol to cross the US-Mexico border legally to give birth in El Paso, Texas.
Women Make Movies | 2018 | 28 minutes
Bolivian Blues
Explores the success of new initiative to reduce widespread poverty.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes
Border South
A vivid portrait of Central American immigrants who disappear along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border, exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life, as well as in death.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes
Brazil's Land Revolution
In the state of Bahia, a new initiative encourages the landless to band together to buy up land -- with low-interest government loans.
Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 23 minutes
Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons
1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?
Deckert Distribution | 2016 | 60 minutes