Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

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Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (2012)

Directed by Ben Lewis

Documentary · 58m

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...

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Cast

Crew

Director
Ben Lewis
Writer
Ben Lewis

Details

Release date
2012-11-28
Runtime
58m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English