Homelessness Movies

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

George, a heroin-addicted chess hustler who sleeps in the park outside of the Section 8 housing where 12-year-old Vivienne lives, helps her prepare...

An opulent deaf man embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

Intimate true stories from St Kilda's Gatwick Private Hotel. Meet the incredible characters including sisters Rose and Yvette who dedicated their...

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...

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

A hitchhiker makes his way towards the coast.

An inspiring feature documentary film about overcoming homelessness and addiction in the City of Los Angeles.

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...

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

In 2024 Shelter North East undertook a piece of research in Newcastle, speaking to 39 individuals who were either currently sleeping rough in...

Residents of a Melbourne social housing community strive to reclaim their own hope and identity in the face of recent deaths and a larger societal...

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

Swords to Plowshares, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2007 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award). Swords to Plowshares is a...

Jörg is one of the many homeless living near the Vatican. But there is something unusual about him: he appears and talks like a sort of holy...

Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better...

This documentary asks, what is happening to our homes? This is what’s going on all around this country while they’re trying to get...

KOMO Anchor Eric Johnson takes an in-depth look at the impact the drug and homelessness problem is having on our city and possible solutions in...