Public Housing Movies

Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

Public Housing is Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, a raw exposition of the daily...

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst...

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they...

Hometopia is a short animation reflecting upon the ubiquitous but wildly despised British council housing. The animation takes on the tone of a...

West Estate spotlights the severe housing problems in Hong Kong, taking the spirit of resistance outside of the protest. The damaged walls in the...

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building...

Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to...

Documenting the demolition of Cabrini Green, Chicago's most infamous public housing development, through the stories of three public housing...

via print and film, love and music, state propaganda and people's archives, five-year plans and Emergency.

A 1975 documentary short about a strike being conducted by public-housing residents in St. Louis.