"Homeless"
EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless
EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless is a roving view of the homeless occupying the public sidewalks surrounding the vacant Woodward’s Building in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The tent city becomes both an eyesore and rallying point for the plight of the homeless and disenfranchised in Vancouver’s booming real estate market. Inter-cut with..
Homeless in NY
Approaching an estimated 30,000 people homeless and living on the streets of New York City, the authorities have enrolled churches into giving shelter and food. Even so, there are still not enough places for everyone to have a bed in a shelter every night. For some of the homeless, though, a shelter is the last place they want to sleep at night. Th..
The Homeless Chorus Speaks
Musicians and homeless advocates Nina Deering and Steph Johnson found a chorus group for the homeless in San Diego.
Evicted: The Hidden Homeless
In a country where people can own two or three homes, these are the stories of those who don’t have one.
Homeless in America
A documentary about people who are homeless and those who help them. Don't give the homeless a hand out; give them a hand up.
Homeless at Christmas
Scottish film director James English spends a week living on the streets of Glasgow to investigate how homelessness affects those that live it and the people that dedicate their time to helping them.
Invisible Homeless: People Living in Cars
More and more people in Japan are living in their cars. And many can be found parked in rest areas in roadside facilities. They are driven to this situation for a variety of reasons: poverty, family upheaval, even a desire to live outside of society's rules.
Community First, A Home for the Homeless
Community First! Village is designed to lift the chronically homeless off the streets of the Austin, TX, offering them a place to call home, helping them to heal from the ravages of life on the streets, and allowing them to rediscover a purpose in their lives. This documentary explores the events that cause homelessness and the heartwarming stories..
19 and Homeless
In British Columbia, young people in foster care “age out” of the child welfare system when they turn 19. Ready or not, they are left to fend for themselves as adults, and are disproportionately at risk of experiencing adverse outcomes such as substance use issues, homelessness, and mental health struggles. Forthright and often heartbreaking..
Under the Bridge: The Criminalization of Homelessness
"Under the Bridge: The Criminalization of Homelessness" is a documentary film about one summer in Indianapolis, a tent city under a bridge, a man named Maurice, and the criminalization of homelessness in the United States. The unofficial "mayor" of the Davidson St. camp, Maurice is an older, dreadlocked Black man who has dropped out of "normal" soc..
Homeless Talent
A homeless single father and musician gets the opportunity to finally showcase his talent, but first, he must overcome his stage fright.
Uncertain Days Living Homeless
In Elkton Maryland homeless people have been living in the woods for years. Tents provide their only shelter and dumpsters provide food. A filmmaker follows these homeless people every day to record some of the most intimate footage ever recorded on film.
24 Hours Homeless in Compton!
Danny Mullen and his crew spend 24 hours in Compton in this eye opening documentary. It showcases American culture at its most raw, while also being funny and entertaining.
COVID-19 and Cape Town's Homeless Transgender Sex Workers
The GALA Queer Archive, with the generous support of SAIH, commissioned a short film looking into the experiences of homeless transgender sex workers across Cape Town. In different areas across Cape Town, there are communities of homeless trans sex workers living under bridges, on open fields or wherever they can find a space in which to set up hom..
Chester P for Mayor: Hip-Hop, Homelessness and the Housing Crisis
Chester P (Real talk records) takes a film crew with him on a journey as he attempts to find the truth about the effects of the austerity measures and the housing crisis on the people of London with a moving and insightful narrative.
Prescribing Hope: A Homeless in Hawaii Special Report
Hawaii News Now reporter Allyson Blair followed the state's only psychiatric street medicine team for six months as they offered homeless people with mental illness a medication that would give them the chance to change their lives.
Homeless in America
See the faces and hear the stories of some of the half-million invisible Americans whose trauma and tragedy forced them to the fringes of society.
A Community Comes Together to Save Homeless Animals: The New Hampshire Story
After filmmaker Bill Millios made his earlier film, Killing Our Best Friends, shelters and rescue groups in New Hampshire made great progress in their life-saving work. By 2000, New Hampshire had become the first state in the nation to stop putting cats and dogs to death in its shelters just to make room for other animals who had become homeless. B..
Tarantino's Basterds: The Homeless Filmmakers of Hollywood
Joe Black, Bumdog Torres, Per "Pit" Ingvar Tomren: all filmmakers, all cinephiles, all living on the streets of Hollywood. A captivating glimpse into the bitter realities and sweet dreams of three men who refuse to give up in the pursuit of their dreams.
