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Philippe Diaz wants you to know that his documentary "The End of Poverty?" is not a call for worldwide socialism - even though it advocates a redistribution of wealth that would make Rush Limbaugh ...
Nonprofits are focusing more on storytelling in outreach to donors and raising production values for videos and podcasts.
As if poverty weren’t a challenging enough phenomenon unto itself, documentary reveals that good intentions can sometimes make things worse.
These ten documentaries about poverty and power have explored have explored the dynamics of wealth and power in provocative ways.
For Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, child poverty has been an issue for decades with one of the highest child poverty rates in the developed world.
The documentary Free Money, making its world premiere on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, explores the real-world impact of that experiment on villagers in the hamlet of Kugutu.
As documentary becomes more global in scope, gatekeepers are venturing outside the traditional nonfiction markets for the next big doc.
China's remarkable success in poverty alleviation has caught the world's attention. The documentary film "Rooting" provides an intimate insight into the country's poverty alleviation efforts ...
P&G partnered with National Geographic last year on a documentary titled “The Power of Clean Water,” which aimed at raising awareness about the lack of clean drinking water around the world.
In the summer of 2009, Dan Parris, now 29, Rob Lehr, now 31, and David Peterka, now 26, challenged themselves to try to experience extreme poverty by living on $1.25 a day and journeyed across ...
LIFE AND DEBT *** DIRECTOR: Stephanie Black RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes RATING: Unrated but no offensive material THE LOWDOWN: A documentary on the destructive effects of economic reform in Jamaica.