Gentrification Movies
- 2018
Ramps to Nowhere
Ramps to Nowhere02018HD
A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s....
- 1982
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick8.51982HD
A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black...
- 2014
We Came to Sweat
We Came to Sweat12014HD
Facing eviction the oldest black-owned gay bar in Brooklyn relies on a passionate community in its fight for survival.
- 2017
Anonymous
Anonymous02017HD
A short film about the changing face of London Soho and the implications of gentrification on Mimi, an aging transvestite.
- 2017
One Big Home
One Big Home02017HD
On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the islands unique character....
- 2015
San Francisco 2.0
San Francisco 2.06.5712015HD
San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists....
- 2020
There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace
There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace02020HD
Over the course of over six decades, Honest Ed's became a Toronto Landmark. The neighbourhood it left behind when it closed its doors in 2016...
- 1976
Stalk the Wild Child
Stalk the Wild Child01976HD
A young boy who had been abandoned as a child and raised by wild dogs is taken to a university where a team attempts to teach him civilized behavior.
- 2022
Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)
Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)02022HD
- 2021
Allesandersplatz
Allesandersplatz02021HD
Artists, urban planners and the city of Berlin trying to transform a former GDR ruin into a place for new visions and concepts of city - a place...
- 2013
My Brooklyn
My Brooklyn6.42013HD
Director Kelly Anderson's personal journey as a Brooklyn 'gentrifier' to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and...
- 2024
Berlin Utopiekadaver
Berlin Utopiekadaver02024HD
A taxi drives through the city of Berlin. Its driver is a punk, left and a well-known figure in the autonomous scene. The stations of his trip are...
- 2023
Pan de la Esquina
Pan de la Esquina02023HD
Diosdado spends his time debating with customers, particularly with his boss, who holds strong opinions about the financial aspects of the...
- 2017
The Iron Triangle: Willets Point and the Remaking of New York
The Iron Triangle: Willets Point and the Remaking of New York02017HD
Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses, Willets Point, a gritty area in New York City known as the...
- 2001
Berlin Babylon
Berlin Babylon7.62001HD
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- 2009
What happened - No one knows
What happened - No one knows102009HD
An unlikely band of misfits has made their home on a roof between a feed mill and the municipal waste treatment plant. But life is good, away from...
- 2020
Seattle Freeway Revolt
Seattle Freeway Revolt02020HD
In the 1950s, Seattle had plans to build one of the densest networks of freeways in the world. It would have displaced thousands, especially the poor...
- 2003
Flag Wars
Flag Wars4.42003HD
Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...
- 2019
The Street
The Street7.82019HD
The baker, the pie-maker and the diminished long-term community of Hoxton Street face gentrification in this compelling portrait of a rapidly...
- 1970
Beau Ideal
Beau Ideal01970HD
In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household— testing the limits of truth, heroism...