Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
2012, English. Directed by Ben Lewis.
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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If you liked Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty, try Inequality for All, Requiem for the American Dream, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Who directed Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty?
Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (2012) was directed by Ben Lewis and stars Shaun Parkes.