Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

Name: Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-11-28
Rating: 8

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58m

2012

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Overview

The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when you awake, what can you say about poverty now? There are still very poor people, to be sure, but the new poverty has more to do with inequality...

Release Date

November 28, 2012

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Shaun Parkes

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