Gentrification Movies

Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neighborhood, and her block was empty....

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...

The first in-depth analysis of the unspoken ethnic component behind the most devastating socio-economic movement in America today.

Facing eviction the oldest black-owned gay bar in Brooklyn relies on a passionate community in its fight for survival.

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...

The Domino Effect is a feature length documentary film that explores the origins and impacts of gentrification and luxury redevelopment in...

Su Friedrich's personal essay charting the destruction of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After living in the neighborhood for 20 years, the filmmaker was...

A short documentary on the gentrification of Hackney.

The working-class Tuindorp Nieuwendam neighborhood in Amsterdam-Noord is like a village within the city. Many natives of the Northern Netherlands...

In the dilapidated industrial buildings in Upper Ladadika or in the wider area of Valaoritou in Thessaloniki, bands and creators flourished for over...

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...

An extended Black family living in View Park-Windsor Hills, California experience changes due to gentrification and reflect on their shifting...

A journey through the fantastic and mysterious Barcelona that the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) loved so much, the city of myth...

Systemic and structural racism implemented by the city of Boston over the years has led to a dramatic stripping of generational wealth for Black...

Right to Wynwood is an investigative documentary that explores the causes and effects of gentrification in Wynwood. Through interviews with...

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...

Sitting at the intersection of two main arteries of traffic on Melbournes Northside is a giant yellow rat that is pointing, with a long gnarled claw,...

Carbon vendors fight for their rights to protect their stalls from oppressors.

In an historically Black neighborhood of Cincinnati, a family closes shop as new residents roll in on their Segways and craft beer carts.