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POOR US: AN ANIMATED HISTORY OF POVERTY. Do we know what poverty is? The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis’s film takes us through the changing world of poverty.
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A funny and sinister animated odyssey through time. The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages.
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Mar 26, 2013 · Summary: This exquisitely animated documentary tells a sweeping social history of world poverty. You, the viewer, are the protagonist in this film floating through the meandering jet stream of world history.
Nov 28, 2012 · “Poor Us” is a global overview of the history of the poor people, from 10,000BC to today’s era of globalisation. Animation, interviews, motion graphics and archive are combined in this innovative, mould-breaking documentary which imagines the history of poverty as a never-ending dream – nightmare.
Aug 25, 2014 · “Poor Us” delivers the history and facts of poverty in a compelling and enlightening manner. The film does well to outline the root causes of different periods of poverty and offers insight into the possibility that tomorrow’s poverty does not have to be a reality.
Nov 28, 2012 · Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when you awake, what can you say about poverty now?
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In this documentary packed with animation, various historians and economists discuss key moments in our history that explain something fundamental about poverty and wealth.
