Poverty

Travel with Japanese film director Takeuchi Ryo to the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, China. Here, the mountains quietly […]

Visit the slums of Asia as we embark on a slumfood journey. Here we'll meet the people who live and breathe for the food they create.

Follow the lives of Indian shipbreakers as they cut through huge ships to salvage their metals for profit.

Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children investigates several children growing up in today's Zimbabwe and how they live their day-to-day life. These kids are trapped in a cycle of poverty, where hope and dreams are the only remedy to press on.

This documentary follows the lives of three children from the Yi ethnic group in China. They are statistically part of a 9 million “left-behind children” raising themselves in the Chinese countryside.

This short film follows the reality, life, and struggles of a young Sherpa in Nepal - he is one of many who has set aside his own dreams to survive in an otherwise poverty stricken Himalaya area.

Tens of thousands of people live in Zabbaleen, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, they all make a living out of recycling the entire capital city’s refuse. Their whole town is a slum providing the inhabitants with almost everything they need: from kids’ toys to fodder for livestock.

This six-part documentary series follows residents of Manila's Tondo slum as they live, love, survive and aspire in some of the world's toughest living conditions.