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Looks at the contrasts in Kenya between the tourist image and the impoverished lives of the country’s inhabitants. A wealthy minority own much of the countryside and grow cash crops to sell to the...
About women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives - image and reality - the models of society and the facts of poverty and violence. Focuses on three adolescent girls in a...
Discusses poverty in Britain in the 1970s. Old age pensioners, unsupported mothers and disabled people describe their difficulties.
A decayed inner area of Nottingham, where a combination of low wages and depressing surroundings produces apathy and depression. Examines the lives of one or two families there, as well as their environment...
The NEWCOMERS is a film about economically threatened Appalachian people in transition. Made in 1963, the documentary deals with issues of immigration and migration and the importance of learning how to live...
The first US Federal Government documentary intended to be shown publicly. This is a graphic description of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. Indicates steps already taken by the New Deal agencies to tackle...
A bleak study of the Hurandos, inhabitants of a poor region near Salamanca, in north-east Spain. Living hopelessly in a barren wasteland, ridden with disease, superstition and ignorance, they let their...
An ambitious living history BBC series in which one corner of the East End of London is taken back to the late Victorian era, a time when East End poverty began to make the headlines. The Slum charts the...
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