Homelessness on film

Thirty years after he last saw her, Stanford English professor John Felstiner finds mystery and wonder in the life of a former student, and in her death.

A fast-paced, gripping documentary about life on the streets.

Jack is the nomad of the film's title. He is a homeless street performer who brings Shakespeare's soliloquies to life each afternoon on various street corners around the city of Denver. He moves around the urban landscape from park bench to bus bench with his best friend, an aging dog named Bones. Contrary to the homeless stereotype, Jack's existence is ruled by discipline. He carefully plans every day of his life, leaving nothing to chance. Lucy is a theater student at the city university. She comes upon Jack's performance one afternoon. Fascinated, she pursues him, bent on learning who he is and where he comes from. When Lucy discovers Jack is from the neighborhood she grew up in, she is determined to learn how this man could fall from the comfort of suburbia to living on the streets. They begin an unlikely friendship. She travels to various locations of Jack's performances, accompanying him afterwards to his bench. She is intrigued by his knowledge of Shakespeare, manner of living and the fifteen perfectly organized bags beneath his bench. They spend their afternoons discussing theater and Lucy's role as Antigone in a school loneliness of the city more bearable. Jack has a history with Charlie, a transient who portrays a typical image of the homeless: rough, unshaven and always looking for the next drink. When Jack rebuffs Charlie's alcoholic advances, an enemy is born. Nomad explores the futility of insulating oneself from the sometimes painful reality of human interaction. Through an unforeseeable chain of events, Jack comes face to face with the boundaries of his carefully constructed existence.

The New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.

Radio commentator, Thomas Bach, runs for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. Through a circumstance, he ends up in the middle of L.A.'s brutal homeless community. What he does with his new awareness is pitted against the forces. of security.

A young couple living in the streets of Hollywood master a plan to leave Los Angeles in order to escape jail, drugs and a life of hopelessness.

A homeless man finds a lost dog in a small town. Together, fate gives them a new leash on life.

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

Iraq War veteran Herold Noel suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and lives out of his car in Brooklyn. Using Noel's story as a fulcrum, this doc examines the wider issue of homeless U.S. military veterans-from Vietnam to Iraq-who have to fight tooth-and-nail to receive the benefits promised to them by their government.

Gritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.

Rachel Allen, a teen runaway from Salt Lake City seeks revenge against the man that destroyed her family. The hunt takes her to LA. Now she's one of the cities homeless youth, one of the Lost Angels.

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

A young woman becomes homeless on the streets of New York City.

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.