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740 Park Avenue - an exclusive apartment building in Manhattan - is currently home to more billionaires than any other building in the United States. Less than five miles to the north is another Pa...rk Avenue in the South Bronx, where almost 40 per cent live in poverty and life prospects are less promising for those stuck at the bottom of the American pile. As international attention focuses on the US elections, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney looks at inequality in the US through the prism of these two, near-adjacent places, to ask if America is still the land of opportunity.
740 Park Avenue - an exclusive apartment building in Manhattan - is currently home to more billionaires than any other building in the United States. Less than five miles to the north is another Pa...rk Avenue in the South Bronx, where almost 40 per cent live in poverty and life prospects are less promising for those stuck at the bottom of the American pile. As international attention focuses on the US elections, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney looks at inequality in the US through the prism of these two, near-adjacent places, to ask if America is still the land of opportunity.
| Series: | Why poverty? |
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| Episode | 4 |
| First transmission date: | 27-11-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC4 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:58 |
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| Director: | Alex Gibney |
| Producer: | Blair Foster |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pblv4 OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/international-development/ou-on-the-bbc-why-poverty |
| Production number: | FKIP411X |
| Videofinder number: | 83353 |
| Available to public: | no |
