Gentrification Movies
- 2021
Cruel Architecture, a Tool of Gentrification
Cruel Architecture, a Tool of Gentrification102021HD
A short documentary shot in November 2021 in Berkeley. It reflects on the ethos of privatization in American culture and how public spaces are being...
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- 2017
The Iron Triangle: Willets Point and the Remaking of New York
The Iron Triangle: Willets Point and the Remaking of New York12017HD
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...
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- 2016
Good White People
Good White People02016HD
In an historically Black neighborhood of Cincinnati, a family closes shop as new residents roll in on their Segways and craft beer carts.
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- 2025
Mijn Noord
Mijn Noord02025HD
The working-class Tuindorp Nieuwendam neighborhood in Amsterdam-Noord is like a village within the city. Many natives of the Northern Netherlands...
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- 2020
Clarissa Uprooted: Youth and Elders Uncover the Story of Black Rochester
Clarissa Uprooted: Youth and Elders Uncover the Story of Black Rochester02020HD
Clarissa Uprooted depicts the Third Ward as a microcosm of Rochester’s—and many northern US cities’—history. From...
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- 2013
Right to Wynwood
Right to Wynwood02013HD
Right to Wynwood is an investigative documentary that explores the causes and effects of gentrification in Wynwood. Through interviews with...
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- 2017
Rua dos Lagares
Rua dos Lagares02017HD
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- 2015
This House Is Not A Home
This House Is Not A Home02015HD
A short documentary about gentrification and tenant activism in one Toronto neighbourhood, "This House Is Not A Home" presents a poignant and...
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- 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....
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- 2017
Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels
Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels02017HD
Caged. Invisible. Shamed. Trapped. These words mark the tenants, clerks and even the owners of Chicago's last remaining Singe Room Occupancy (SRO)...
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- 1970
Andrómaco
Andrómaco01970HD
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- 2013
Gut Renovation
Gut Renovation4.52013HD
Su Friedrich's personal essay charting the destruction of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After living in the neighborhood for 20 years, the filmmaker was...
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- 1970
Whose Barrio?
Whose Barrio?01970HD
Jose Rivera is a lifelong resident of Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) but is afraid that gentrification will force him out. James Garcia has just bought...
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- 2018
Jewel of the Pacific
Jewel of the Pacific02018HD
A long-term resident of Pacific Beach explores the gradual gentrification of his once sleepy neighborhood in San Diego, California.
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- 2025
Ser Fronterizo: Crónicas de las Asimetrías Globales
Ser Fronterizo: Crónicas de las Asimetrías Globales02025HD
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- 2017
Denim
Denim02017HD
Denim' is a poetic short film by writer, poet and performer Siana Bangura, exploring gentrification and social cleansing in South East London....
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- 2011
The Oven Sky
The Oven Sky02011HD
The Oven Sky (2011) is set in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood where newcomers pressure a longtime resident to turn her yard filled with lawn...
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- 2015
Wem gehört die Stadt - Bürger in Bewegung
Wem gehört die Stadt - Bürger in Bewegung02015HD
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- 2006
Art Security Service
Art Security Service02006HD
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- 1996
Moulins, du gauche au droit
Moulins, du gauche au droit81996HD
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