Why Poverty? - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Four Born Every Second
Documentary exploring the effects of contemporary poverty on children and infant mortality rates around the world, from the UK to America, Cambodia and Sierra Leone.
Give Us the Money
Documentary, using archive footage and interviews with key players, which looks at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty. What impact has their work had?
Stealing Africa
With reference to Zambian copper mines, Christoffer Guldbrandsen investigates the dark heart of the tax system employed by multi-nationals and asks how much profit is fair.
Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
Film looking at inequality in the US through the prism of two near-adjacent Park Avenues - one an exclusive apartment building in Manhattan, the other in rundown South Bronx.
Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
Ben Lewis's funny, sinister animated odyssey takes us through the changing image of poverty - helping us define what poverty looks like today and question whether it is inevitable.
Solar Mamas
Documentary following the story of a Jordanian mother who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer for six months.
The Great Land Rush
Documentary looking at how rich, land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agri-business farms.
China's Ant People
Film looking at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of a private college tutor, a graduate jobseeker and a high school graduate and would-be university student.
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