THE WORLD'S HARSHEST SLUMS | Why Millions Still Call Them Home | 4K Documentary

Some people paddle through garbage-filled water just to get home. Others sleep in tin shacks beside burning e-waste, on stilts above an open lagoon, or in a single room where the bed, the stove and the toilet are an arm's length apart. This 4K documentary visits 34 of the world's harshest slums, from Kibera and Makoko to Skid Row, Tondo and Europe's largest Roma settlement, and asks a simple question: why do millions of people still call these places home? The answers are rarely about choice. Some stay because the port, the dump site or the wealthy district next door is the only place they can earn money. Some have no documents, no savings or no landlord who will accept them anywhere else. And many stay because their neighbours are the only safety net they have. In this film: - Agbogbloshie and Old Fadama in Accra, where copper is stripped from burning cables - Makoko, the "Venice of Africa", and Belén, a floating slum on the Amazon - Kibera, Mathare and Dandora in Nairobi - Rocinha, Paraisópolis, Petare, Villa 31 and La Limonada in Latin America - Tondo, Baseco, Khlong Toei, Korail, Geneva Camp and Orangi Town in Asia - Hong Kong's Monster Building and Tokyo's hidden San'ya district - Khayelitsha, Alexandra, Kliptown, Diepsloot and Imizamo Yethu in South Africa - Skid Row in Los Angeles and Europe's poorest Roma neighborhoods ▶ Watch next: URBAN HELLS | Life in the Most Disgusting Places on Earth: https://youtu.be/2ShGongyAls WHY THEY STAY | The Most Extreme Places on Earth People Refuse to Leave: https://youtu.be/S6ELmP50OBA TOXIC HELLS | Life in the Most Poisoned Places on Earth: https://youtu.be/H0rwjzFaGMQ Which of these places surprised you the most, and what do you think would help the people living there? Tell us in the comments. ⏱ Chapters 00:00 The World's Harshest Slums 01:23 Agbogbloshie, Ghana: The E-Waste Graveyard 03:25 Dandora, Kenya: Life Beside the Dump 05:39 Makoko, Nigeria: The Venice of Africa 07:56 West Point, Liberia: Swallowed by the Sea 09:45 Manshiyat Naser, Egypt: Garbage City 12:14 Geneva Camp, Bangladesh: 80,000 People, Two Football Fields 14:21 Paraisópolis, Brazil: São Paulo's Forgotten Maze 16:18 Rocinha, Brazil: A City on a Hillside 18:34 Kibera, Kenya: The Slum Missing from the Map 20:45 Monster Building, Hong Kong: Life in a Concrete Box 23:13 Baseco Compound, Philippines: Built on Mud and Waste 25:15 Mathare, Kenya: The River That Rises 27:05 Khayelitsha, South Africa: Cape Town's Other Side 29:14 Khlong Toei, Thailand: In the Shadow of Skyscrapers 31:04 Skid Row, USA: Tents in America's Wealthiest City 33:12 Old Fadama, Ghana: Ghana's Largest Slum 35:32 Petare, Venezuela: The Endless Stairways 37:25 Alexandra, South Africa: Next Door to Sandton 39:20 Tondo, Philippines: A Strip of Waste Beneath Manila 42:04 Korail, Bangladesh: Homes on Bamboo Stilts 44:07 Ferentari, Romania: Bucharest's Isolated District 46:09 Imizamo Yethu, South Africa: Shacks Above Hout Bay 47:58 Bangalore, India: Behind the Silicon Valley of India 50:20 Luník IX, Slovakia: Winter Without Power 52:01 San'ya, Japan: Tokyo's Invisible Neighborhood 53:59 Susan's Bay, Sierra Leone: Roofs That Touch 56:00 Orangi Town, Pakistan: The Largest Continuous Slum 57:59 Belén, Peru: The Floating Slum of the Amazon 1:00:15 Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Streets Ruled by Gangs 1:02:06 Villa 31, Argentina: Beside Buenos Aires' Richest District 1:04:05 La Limonada, Guatemala: Life in a Ravine 1:05:58 Kliptown, South Africa: Where Freedom Was Written 1:08:10 Diepsloot, South Africa: The Deep Ditch 1:10:06 Stolipinovo, Bulgaria: Europe's Largest Slum #Slums #HarshestSlums #Poverty #4KDocumentary #TravelDocumentary