1. Elas da Favela (Elas da Favela)
(Elas da Favela)
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
2. Megacities
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
It has an average vote of 6.861 on TMDB.
3. Bus 174 (Ônibus 174)
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
It has an average vote of 7.403 on TMDB.
4. Public Domain (Domínio Público)
Between 2011 and 2014, the documentary investigated the changes in Rio de Janeiro on behalf of mega-events: UPPs in slums, forced evictions, public spaces privatization and popular uprisings.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
5. New Towns for Old
Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.
6. The Walls Come Tumbling Down
A 1975 documentary short about a strike being conducted by public-housing residents in St. Louis.
7. Eugenio's Close Up: Inside the Slums of Buenos Aires
Eugenio's Close Up: Inside the Slums of Buenos Aires</p><p> A professional photographer seeks to infuse his Buenos Aires slum with art, creativity and free expression. As with so many of the marginalised shanty towns of Latin America, there is a wellspring of violence and economic despair. Caught in the ever-shifting instability of Argentina's economy, there is little chance that these slums will be transformed or that their residents will be able to easily escape the country's cyclical poverty. Despite this for Eugenio, a 32-year-old photographer who still calls the slum of Villa 15 his home, there is a persistent richness to the life around him, and hope.
8. Joy Ride (Joy Ride)
A documentary about human-powered manual ferris wheel rides at Juhu beach in Mumbai.
9. Our Greatest Ambassador
Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.
10. Rooms of Shadow and Light (Valon ja varjon huoneet)
The prostitutes of Bombay live a nightmare life, yet there are some people who try to bring a little light into the darkness of the brothels. The film follows the lives of women in two brothels in the slums of Bombay. Some of the women are old, some are very young, but they have all been cheated into the business. And cheated out of life. For ten years now, Vinay, a social worker, has been trying to help them by saving them from AIDS and giving them some comfort. Although they are degraded and exploited outcasts, these women manage to retain some human dignity and cheerfulness. And some hope.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
11. Delhi Durbar Dawns
Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.
12. Street Scenes in India
From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.
13. P for Pelican (پ مثل پلیکان)
An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word “Pelican” for the letter ‘P’, the hermit goes to the nearby park to see this animal he has never heard of.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
14. Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Bombay, Poona, Baroda, Jodhpur and Bikaner
The future Edward VIII visits his Empire, with Indian royalty, elephants, palaces and temples.
15. Hong Kong’s Secret City (Hongkongs geheime Stadt)
Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that escape authority, a city which holds no law and no order, the ‘walled city’. Never before has a television crew been allowed to enter this labyrinth. Christa Wesemann, an Austrian documentary filmmaker, has achieved this for the first time. The recordings from the ‘walled city’ are breathtaking pictures, as it has never seen the world. The history and daily flow in Walled City are ruled by the ‘triad’, a Chinese crime syndicate.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
16. Coragem (Coragem)
(Coragem)
17. India Cabaret (India Cabaret)
A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
18. Picturesque India or, In and About Calcutta
Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
19. Favela Rising
A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
20. Unarmed Verses
Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.