Film · Documentary
Welfare (1975)
★ 7.4 · 41 votesIMDb★ 8.2 · 873 votes2 h 47 minDocumentary1975
The nature and complexity of the welfare system is explored in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of constituting problems: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their livelihood.
- Director
- Frederick Wiseman
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- September 23, 1975
