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Follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land - Montana.

Maid revolves around Alex, a single mother who turns to housekeeping to - barely - make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness, and bureaucracy. Told primarily through her point of view, Maid is described as a beautiful, alive, gritty and inspiring exploration of poverty in America.

The story follows a working-class Brisbane teenager navigating the world of drug addiction, ex-cons, poverty, and violence.

The Radio Times described the drama as a Semi-Autobiographical series. It's about a shambolic family living on a Manchester estate. Eldest sister, Fiona, has to look after her five younger siblings after their mother's disappearance and there father became an alcoholic.

Costello Jones is a single mother that likes to write. Her love for her daughter and passionate friendships are thwarted by poverty and prejudice.

The drama follows the story of a young, single mother Rachel and her young son Liam. They're on the poverty line, but she works all hours of the day as a cleaner to give him the best life she can.

David Makes Man follows a 14-year-old genius named David "projects haunted by the death of his closest friend and on which his working mother relies to find a way out of poverty".

On the front lines of America's drug war, one family is living in the crossfire. The Corner tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore.

Sara Aoyama was an orphan and is now a single mother. She has suffered through poverty, lack of understanding from society and other problems that led to her being separated from her daughter. She believes that if she has money, her life will change. One day, Sara Aoyama sees a woman killing herself by jumping in front of a train. The woman who jumped looks just like her doppleganger. Sara Aoyama is stunned, but takes the woman's bag. Since then, her life takes an unpredictable turn.

Snow falls softly over a desolate playground. A fourteen-year-old boy lays face down in front of a swing-set as his life drains out of the gaping wound in his head. Behind him stands his best friend, a warm gun in his trembling hand. When children commit horrible crimes, who bears responsibility? And what does it do to us all when we allow ourselves to view children as monsters? At the center of this gut-wrenching story are the lost children: those we fail to catch before they fall between the cracks - whether due to negligence, poverty, or social alienation. The single mothers, the grocer in the town square, the local cop - no one is left untouched in a society where the escalating violence is taking over struggling fringe communities. 

This is a 4 hour British television miniseries adaptation from 2008 based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel from 1891. The story follows the poverty stricken young country woman Tess (Played by Gemma Arterton) who tries to improve her life and social status upon realizing her family is connected to the extremely wealthy D'Uberville family.

The struggle of 6 orphan siblings living in Istanbul to survive and their solidarity in the face of adversity.

A public toilet caretaker's poverty-stricken life takes a drastic U-turn when he helps an old woman. How long will fate smile upon him?

"Heaven" introduces the infamous Casteel family, the least regarded of all the families living in the poverty-stricken foothills of the mountains of West Virginia. Yet the eldest daughter, Heaven Leigh Casteel (Annalise Basso), was still the smartest girl in the backwoods and determined to redeem her family name. However, her dreams become deferred the day her stepmother flees and her selfish father Luke (Chris William Martin) sells her and her four siblings to different families. Heaven is sent to live in the home of Luke's deranged ex-lover, Kitty (Julie Benz), who torments Heaven as Kitty's husband, Cal (Chris McNally) lures Heaven into a forbidden relationship while she fights to reunite her siblings.

Like any other young girl, Zeynep dreams of being a social media influencer to escape her poor life. But while she is trying to achieve that, she also has to be a "mother" to her father. Because the 45-year-old man has the mind and emotions of a 5-year-old kid. With his toy car, childish jokes, and behaviour, Kadir is like a kid, in an adult costume. He's the way he is because of the umbilical cord that was wrapped around his neck when he was in his mother's womb. Kadir was born as a "test", both for his parents and his child. At least, that's what Zeynep's grandpa says to her. Zeynep dreams big, and she tries to get away from the troubles of her aunt's house; from her shakedown in a small room in which neither she nor her cousins can fit; from her uncle, who blames them and oppresses her aunt; from her aunt's enraged exhaustion; from the impossible; and poverty.

Basketball or Nothing follows a high school boys basketball team on a Native American reservation as they strive for greatness on and off the court. Viewers will witness the team's determination to overcome obstacles such as poverty, cultural barriers, and racism while showcasing their talent and love for the game.

Filiz is the eldest of the 6 siblings whose father, Fikri, is an alcoholic. All the responsibility of managing the house and raising her siblings falls on her shoulders. Baris falls in love with Filiz for who she is but can she fall in love with someone else when her life is not her own but her family's?

A group of 21st-century people move into a Victorian tenement that has been painstakingly brought back to life in the heart of London's East End.

Oliver's closest family are the workhouse board, and their plans for Oliver's future does not stretch much beyond starving him to death with pitiful rations of gruel. But Oliver's a fighter, and after a courageous rebellion when he dares to ask for more, Oliver is cast out and forced to make his own way in the world.

Eight darkly comic, poignant and sometimes devastating monologues, told by writers and directors with lived experiences of poverty.

Raised up in the same orphanage, Fuuka and Rinne were once close friends but parted company after a quarrel ended up with Rinne overwhelmed Fuuka with her martial art skills. Fuuka has a life in poverty after leaving the orphanage. An accidental encounter with renowned martial arts champion Einhard Stratos discovered Fuuka's hidden talent in fighting; Einhard offered Fuuka a job and coaching, encouraging her to meet up with Rinne again - in a ring.

"Rab C Nesbitt" is a scottish sitcom based around an angry alcoholic street philosopher from the Govan area of Glasgow.

According to some politicians and the media, benefits are an easy route to a life of luxury. As austerity continues to happen, jobs remain hard to come by and benefits are squeezed, the series reveals the reality of what life is like on benefits, as the residents of one of country's most benefit-dependent streets allows the cameras into their community.

Warriors of Liberty City explores Liberty City - a crime-ridden neighborhood in Miami, Florida that is arguably the NFL's largest football factory. The series follows a season with the Liberty City Warriors, a youth football program founded by an unlikely mentor: Luther Campbell, better known as "Uncle Luke" from the 2 Live Crew. Before Moonlight shook the Oscars, Liberty City was best known for some of the biggest names in football, including Devonta Freeman, Antonio Brown, Duke Johnson and Teddy Bridgewater. But it's also a place synonymous with poverty and gun violence, and even more disturbing, in Liberty City, it's now kids killing kids. Yet in the face of trauma and tragedy, football legends are born.

The show lifts the lid on the reality of those in Britain living off of the state. Since welfare state launched, more Brit's then ever now claim benefits, with some people never working a day in their life.