This new series of hard-hitting documentaries offers insights into the nature and extent of contemporary poverty. Each film explores an area of England and records the stories of people who ...

is hosting a debate about contemporary poverty with Why Poverty? – a set of ground-breaking international documentaries screening from November. The global cross-media event, produced in ...

Why do a billion people still live in poverty worldwide, and what can be done to change this? The series <a href="http://www.whypoverty.net/" target="_blank">Why ...

And one in seven of all women in poverty have experienced domestic ... That’s why an old clip of the documentary has resurfaced on Twitter as a wake-up call for the government.

Few documentaries have unleashed such strong ... poor housing and grueling work that kept migrant families locked in a cycle of poverty that contrasted sharply with the prosperity of their employers.

Four Feet Up is an intimate portrayal of child poverty in Canada by award-winning photographer and documentary filmmaker Nance Ackerman. Twenty years after the promise of the House of Commons "to ...