Tag: Why Poverty?
Give Us the Money
Can glitz and celebrity save the world? Thirty years ago, rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono set out on a journey to fight poverty...
Solar Mamas
An inspiring film about one woman's attempt to light up her world. Rafea is an uneducated Bedouin mother from the Jordanian desert. She gets...
Education, Education
In ancient times in China, education was the only way out of poverty - in recent times it has been the best way. China's...
Land Rush
In 2008, the world's food system began to fall apart. However, threatened with hunger, rich countries have started buying up and leasing fertile tracts...
Stealing Africa
Zambia’s copper resources have not made the country rich. Virtually all Zambia’s copper mines are owned by corporations. In the last ten years, they’ve...
Welcome to the World
A lyrical, exhilarating and sometimes unsettling look at childbirth around the globe. Every year 130 million babies are born. Their life chances are a...
Poor Us: An Animated History
If we want to make poverty history, we need to understand the history of poverty. A funny and sinister animated odyssey through time. The...
Why Poverty?
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between...
