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Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (2012)

Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (2012)

Documentary
Release Date: 2012, November 28
Directors: Ben Lewis
Cast: Shaun Parkes

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...

Keywords:

poverty poor wealth differences inequality economics