Homelessness Movies

Every day, on the streets of Canada's cities, we pass them on our way to work or school. Bums, beggars, winos, bag people we call them. But who is...

Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as...

Director invites six homeless men to his flat for a few days (surprising his wife). He asks officials and people on the street if someone can help...

In January 2011 Paul Crane discovered a tent city in downtown St. Louis, along the Mississippi River. He was curious as to who these people were, how...

Florence, a hapless musician, takes three homeless teens off the streets of Los Angeles and into her care only to realize she has to overcome her own...

As Rose City grapples with continued vandalism and homelessness, businesses are hurting and boarded up amid a global pandemic. What can be done to...

In 2023, there were an estimated 30.6 thousand homeless people. This number continues to rise at an alarming rate. One of them is the headstrong...

HOMELESS is a documentary that humanizes unhoused people and explores their backgrounds, dreams and struggles to find the way home. The film aims to...

Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Geneviève is shaken to meet a young woman there whom she believed...

(Short Documentary) A homeless man recovering from alcoholism escapes to a remote southern Colorado mesa and forges a new path living amongst wild...

Noman, a homeless outsider in the big city, tells his story of a disconnected world. Dedicated to those who feel like they aren't seen. We see you....

Running Inside Out is a movie about a woman named Kim and her passion for running. Kim is forced to the edge by a sequence of life circumstances....

“The Fight for the Soul of Seattle” examines the role of Seattle’s City Council in allowing the situation to reach what many...

Documentary tells the story of Maxim Vakhmin, a veritable alleycat of a man. Revered as both an angel and a devil, Maxim (once known as a successful...

Thomas Adam has been through a lot. Alcohol was a constant presence in his life, costing him his marriage and his job. He lived on the streets of...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

Some 240,000 women over 55 are at risk of homelessness In Australia – a figure both surprising (owing to this demographic being less likely to...

After the death of his grandmother, an 18 year-old boy lives in a homeless shelter.

Homeless veterans find family as they rent rooms from an eighteen-year-old girl struggling to support her thirteen-year-old brother while discovering...