Why Poverty? (2012)
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
📺 Seasons & Episodes
Season 18 episodes
1. Four Born Every Second
⏱ 58 minRevealing the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe. The life chances of newly born babies in the rich world and the poor world.
2. Give Us the Money
⏱ 58 minA look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
3. Stealing Africa
⏱ 58 minAn investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
4. Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
⏱ 58 minHow the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
5. Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
⏱ 58 minPoor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
6. Solar Mamas
⏱ 58 minA Jordanian mother's successful struggle to pull herself and her family out of poverty by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer.
7. The Great Land Rush
⏱ 58 minHow rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
8. China's Ant People
⏱ 58 minGetting an education and a life in contemporary China. A look at Chinese education through the lives of a tutor, a student and a jobseeker.
