Why Poverty? (2012)
Season 1
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
Released Nov. 19, 2012
Episode 58 min
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Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.poverty
Network: BBC Four
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Four Born Every Second
Revealing the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe. The life chances of newly born babies in the rich world and the poor world.
Nov. 19, 2012, midnight
S1E2 - Give Us the Money
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
Nov. 25, 2012, midnight
S1E3 - Stealing Africa
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
Nov. 26, 2012, midnight
S1E4 - Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
Nov. 27, 2012, midnight
S1E5 - Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
Nov. 28, 2012, midnight
S1E6 - Solar Mamas
A Jordanian mother's successful struggle to pull herself and her family out of poverty by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer.
Dec. 2, 2012, midnight
S1E7 - The Great Land Rush
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
Dec. 4, 2012, midnight
S1E8 - China's Ant People
Getting an education and a life in contemporary China. A look at Chinese education through the lives of a tutor, a student and a jobseeker.
Dec. 5, 2012, midnight
BBC Four
58 min/ep
58 min
Nov. 19, 2012
Dec. 5, 2012, midnight
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