Famous, Rich and Jobless

Famous, Rich And In The Slums with Comic Relief

December 2025 •English

Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they spend a week living it for real in this ground-breaking, two-part documentary for Comic Relief.

Steenrijk Straatarm

December 2025 •Dutch

Why Poverty?

December 2025 •English

A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

December 2025 •English

The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.

Famous, Rich and Hungry

December 2025 •English

Four famous volunteers try to untangle the complicated reasons and life choices that lie behind Britain's hidden hunger crisis and are challenged to help UK households find a way out of food poverty

Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World

December 2025 •English

A look at the legacy of Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 in reshaping global charity and politics. Featuring interviews with Bob Geldof, Bono, Sting, and African and western leaders of the time.

America's War on Poverty

December 2025 •English

In the midst of unprecedented national prosperity in the 1960s, poverty was "rediscovered" by American policy makers, media and the public. This series examines how the poor fared during these years and the resultant evolution of foundation and public sector programs addressing the challenges of poverty.

Fin de mois

December 2025 •French

Naufragés des villes

December 2025 •French

Top Boy

December 2025 •English

Two seasoned drug dealers return to the gritty street of London, but their pursuit of money and power is threatened by a young and ruthless hustler.

The Job Lot

December 2025 •English

The daily troubles of the people who work in a busy West Midlands Job Centre, and the people who don’t work there, or anywhere else for that matter.

Young, Gifted And Broke

December 2025 •English

The Oblongs

December 2025 •English

The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp has left them with the occasional missing limb or mysterious growth, but through it all, this close-knit family sticks together.Sometimes literally.

When the Boat Comes In

December 2025 •English

When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a First World War veteran who returns to his poverty-stricken (fictional) town of Gallowshield in the North East of England. It dramatises the interwar political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the impact of national and international politics upon Ford and those around him.

That Mountain That Sea

December 2025 •Chinese

Boys from the Blackstuff

December 2025 •English

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.

On the Way to Hope

December 2025 •Chinese

When Zhang Nan was a child, his mother was imprisoned because she had fought with the villagers over irrigation water. From then on, Zhang Nan was determined to leave and take root in the big city. Just when he has graduated with a master's degree, his mother was diagnosed with cancer. Zhang Nan is forced to abandon a promising future in Shanghai and returned to his native village of Baiguo to serve as the team leader. Zhang Nan takes on three years of poverty alleviation work. Through his journey, he manages to untangle the knots from his childhood and also comes to understand the true meaning of his work. Along with his girlfriend, they invest their time and effort to focus on helping the countryside.

Mom, Don't Do That!

December 2025 •Chinese

Cupid's Command

December 2025 •Thai

Hayman is an orphan who was adopted thanks to a cripple's genuine kindness. He enjoyed a impoverished life until he met Panita, the granddaughter of Hemthong Bunyachutpong, a shoe production company owner. Hayman remain the proper heir of the Bunyachutpong family. Panita's grandfather had informed her parents that she is old enough to have a lover. But no matter how splendid of a man her maternal grandfather finds for her, she however wants to prefer the person she loves on her own. Despite Panita's initial dislike for Hayman, she eventually falls for him.

Tomorrow

December 2025 •Korean

Once guiding the 'dead', now saving those who want to die! The Afterlife Office Human Fantasy.