Movies and TvShows featuring "welfare-payment" theme.

In a small Newfoundland fishing village, the community is in dire need of a doctor. They hatch a plan to deceive a young doctor into staying in the town by any means necessary, including manipulation, bribery, and con games.

In 1968, Elsa and Richard Marley founded an alternative-living community, named Black Bear, in the remote Northern California wilderness with the motto "Free Land for Free People." This film tells the story of that intended utopia. Through archival footage and interviews with former residents, director Jonathan Berman explores the problems and realities of communal living and the evolution of a community that endured FBI harassment, cult leadership and more.

The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of the Hudson's Bay Company is a documentary film that provides an Indian perspective on the activities and impact of the Hudson's Bay Company. It examines themes such as small business, poverty, oppression, native American rights, and exploitation within the context of the fur trade and the company's economic power.

Teesh and Trude is the humorous, yet biting story of two hard and damaged women living on a diet of soapies, frustration and sarcasm. It reveals the dysfunction, denial and desperation of two people trapped by circumstances, apathy and class.