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The documentary "The Line," with the subtitle "Poverty in America - It's not what you think," includes the story of a DuPage County man who lost his job as a banker after the 2008 recession and ...
Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett shows us in this groundbreaking documentary a new face of poverty in America. About 50 million people in the United States live below the poverty line (In ...
As the pandemic continues, the presidential election approaches, and America reckons with racism, FRONTLINE presents a documentary offering a powerful look at child poverty in America in the time ...
How has the coronavirus changed what it’s like to live in poverty? That’s the question director-producer Jezza Neumann sought to answer in the documentary Growing Up Poor in America.
Poverty was one of the most popular subjects chosen for analysis. During week three of the semester back in September, "Frontline" released a documentary titled “Growing Up Poor in America ...
"Invisible America" is a poignant film that delves into the harsh realities of poverty in the United States. Through compelling visual storytelling without narration, it exposes the hopelessness ...
They may portray the horrific poverty that struck the nation, only to then focus on the resilience of the American people and our eventual triumph. But perhaps they help us forget our epidemic now.
Beautiful, haunting elegies for American poverty have gradually developed into a subgenre of modern documentary filmmaking: “October Country” captured the struggles of a dysfunctional family ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. What does a poor person look like? When you picture someone who lives in poverty, do you see someone with white skin or black ...
There's a new American poverty, and it's spreading through every corner of our nation. The visuals are familiar: boarded-up homes, abandoned downtowns and shuttered factories. But underneath the ...