The Best Inequality & the Poor Documentaries

Society & Culture - 41 free documentaries about inequality & the poor.

Start with America's Poor Kids (59 min, Real Stories), then Born Poor (83 min, FRONTLINE PBS). All 41 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on inequality & the poor is Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.

• America's Poor Kids (59 min, Real Stories)
• Born Poor (83 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Working Poor | The Price of the American Dream (52 min, ENDEVR)
• Poverty in the USA: Being Poor in the World's Richest Country (52 min, ENDEVR)
• No-Go Zones - World’s Toughest Places | Seven Mile Road, Detroit, USA (48 min, Free Documentary)
• Poor Kids (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Anand Giridharadas on 'Winners Take All' and the charade of elite philanthropy (32 min, VPRO Documentary)
• New York City rich and poor - The inequality crisis (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Inequality – how wealth becomes power (1/3) (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The New Black Elite: Super-Rich African-Americans (50 min, ENDEVR)
• Chicago at the Crossroad (60 min, Real Stories)
• How Did The Philippines Become One Of Asia's Most Unequal Countries? | Insight (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Once poor, always poor? (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Growing Up Poor: Breadline Kids (46 min, ENDEVR)
• Surviving on Minimum Wage | Hard Earned (47 min, ENDEVR)
• How South Korea’s Income Gap Became Wider Than Ever | Insight (44 min, CNA Insider)
• Cambodia - How microcredit is making the world's poor even poorer (42 min, DW Documentary)
• 50 Wealthiest Indonesians Richer Than Bottom 50 Million: Inequality in Indonesia | Insight (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Rich and poor – the inequality gap (2/3) (43 min, DW Documentary)
• The rich, the poor and the trash (28 min, DW Documentary)
• DALLAS: A City between Billionaires and Slums (54 min, ENDEVR)
• Meet the Working Class | Hard Earned (47 min, ENDEVR)
• Why West Virginia is so Poor (21 min, Wendover Productions)
• Surviving Against the Odds: Teenage Tales of Poverty | Growing Up Poor (57 min, Real Stories)
• Why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer | Us & Them | DW Documentary | 4K UHD (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Rich House / Poor House | Full Season 1 (167 min, ENDEVR)
• HEAT or EAT? - How the Working Class was forgotten by the Crown | Poverty in UK (55 min, ENDEVR)
• Why Solitude Promotes Greatness - The Benefits of Being Alone (15 min, Academy of Ideas)
• SKINT: How People Survive on the Poverty Line in the UK | Full Season (179 min, ENDEVR)
• Wannabe Gangster Rich Kid Kills Poor Student (72 min, Real Stories)
• Poor Man's Clean Room (43 min, Tech Ingredients)
• How to make poor areas richer (20 min, The Economist)
• Surviving in an Ultra-Poor Neighborhood | Struggle Street (49 min, ENDEVR)
• A 21st Century Genocide: Brazil's Extermination of the Black and Poor (25 min, ENDEVR)
• Broken Veterans - Left Behind by Politics, Recruited by Militias (47 min, ENDEVR)
• Poor, White and British: The Left Behind Majority? (48 min, Real Stories)
• Are The Benefits Of Vitamin C Real Or Hype? | Talking Point (22 min, CNA Insider)
• The Price of Fairness: Why Do We Accept Inequality And Social Injustice? (77 min, ENDEVR)
• Have Working Class White Men Been Left Behind? (93 min, Real Stories)
• Wealth Inequality: The Good and the Bad (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Poor people are booming business - VPRO documentary - 2007 (48 min, VPRO Documentary)

Top-Rated Books About Inequality & the Poor

1. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
3. Evicted by Matthew Desmond (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
4. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (3.7/5) - View on Amazon