Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

7.2
2012 0 hr 58 min Documentary

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...

  • Cast:
    Shaun Parkes

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Reviews

Moustroll
2012/11/28

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Beanbioca
2012/11/29

As Good As It Gets

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InformationRap
2012/11/30

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Sarita Rafferty
2012/12/01

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

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