Homelessness Movies

A wandering homeless man seizes an opportunity.

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until...

Los Angeles' Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable...

Promises to Keep follows agitator Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence by showing film-fragments, news-bulletin images from records,...

In 1997, a group of college misfits invite an unhoused professor to crash on their porch.

An unnerving glimpse into the near future is experienced through Callum, a young drifter.

A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his...

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

dAVID, pETER, sUNSHINE, bROADWAY vIC, mARY, and fRANK have survived on the streets and been homeless for decades, as they join an ambitious...

Street Life documents the lives of Chinese migrants in Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities, now symbolic of...

A mentally unstable homeless man attempts to save his new and only friend from the world and drug dealers that make his life a living hell.

A crippled child watches the world go by from the window of his limo. He befriends a homeless man, whom he believes to be Christ.

An Intermission is a portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness. For over a year...

Legendary homeless activist Ted Hayes embarks on a journey to heal hearts and minds of Americans.

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the impoverished community of Milwaukee despite...

A street-wise teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence.

A sweeping look at the history and causes of the current homeless crisis in Los Angeles and an intimate view of the tireless advocates who strive to...

The homeless boy Falken is living from day to day in Oslo, earning money as a boy prostitute. One night he sends a text message to the four most...

A documentary that chronicles Pras Michel's 9-day experience as a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles. Given a dollar a day to live, his worldview...