Gentrification Movies

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

Residents struggle to pay their rapidly rising rents on Wellington Street in Montreal.

A short documentary on the gentrification of Hackney.

Ayi comes from a rural area of Eastern China and doesn’t have the residential permit that would allow her to work in Shanghai. Yet, she has been cooki...

A dystopian short film about the gentrification processes in a city that could be Buenos Aires.

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of...

A short documentary about gentrification and tenant activism in one Toronto neighbourhood, "This House Is Not A Home" presents a poignant and informat...

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

Nicknamed "The Black Beverly Hills," View Park, Baldwin Hills, and Ladera Heights, are unarguably the three most wealthiest black neighborhoods in the...

Evanston, a suburb just north of Chicago, touts its progressivism and inclusion. It was the first city in the U.S. to offer reparations for Black resi...

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

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

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

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

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 an...