For Sale: The American Dream
Owning a home has always been the centerpiece to the American Dream. That dream has turned sour.
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Once Upon a Rooftop
Once Upon a Rooftop: The world of the Hong Kong rooftops. There is a whole underworld that lives over the world. PBS invites the viewer to a land of fan dancers, fire breathers, and young students.
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Living Without Laws: Slab City, USA
Slab City, also just knows as The Slabs, is a one of kind community. It might be one of the only places in the United States where laws and regulations aren’t enforced. Attracting Vietnam Veteran, homeless people, and other drifters, its residents have built a society that works in its own special way.
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Carts of Darkness
In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing.
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Witness: Eviction on Millionaire Street
St. Petersburgh. Founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Home of Dostoevsky, Pushkin, and the Tsar. Renamed “Leningrad’ under Stalin. Enter a society of millionaires and families trying to hold on to their coveted real estate in a capitalistic market. 25 minutes long.
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North Korean Labor Camps
The Founder of VICE travels for 15 hours by train to finally arrive in Siberia and investigate logging camps that are using North Korean slave labor. Filmed in December 2011, it is shocking to see that this sort of thing still happens in Russia long after Communism has fallen.
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The Empire in Africa
Sierra Leone sits in Western Africa. It is a nation caught between crushing poverty and wealth beyond the imagination of most people on earth. Diamonds are ripe in the land and harvested by the Western World. In 1991, a civil war broke out. Enough was enough.
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J is for Junkie
A group of crack addicts in Atlanta who live outside in a small cove behind a Texaco, infamously dubbed as the “Living Room”, share their stories and tell us what it’s like to battle with a deadly addiction to crack-cocaine.
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Dark Days
The documentary is about a group of homeless people who live in an abandoned New York subway tunnel in makeshift houses. They range from hopeless crackheads, to guys who were just sick of doing it tough above ground.
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