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How The Banks Won 44 min
How The Banks Won (2010)
As the government prepares an emergency budget to help pay for the bank bailout, Will Hutton investigates the banks and what they've done with our money. He discovers that while ordinary taxpayers take the pain, for the banks it's largely business as usual.
Future Suspended 35 min
Future Suspended (2014)
How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of everyday life in a city? From the streets of Athens, Greece, Future Suspended is divided in three sections. “Privatised” explores the legacy of mass privatisation projects that preceded the 2004 Olympics, placing them...
The Taxing Question of Land 31 min
The Taxing Question of Land (2013)
Complex tax systems allow for avoidance, evasion and expensive administration costs to both the public and private purse. At the recent G8 summit, the UK placed tax compliance as one of the most important issues facing the world today.
Jekyll Island: The Truth Behind The Federal Reserve 120 min
Jekyll Island: The Truth Behind The Federal Reserve (2013)
What's the problem with the world economy? It's debt -- too much personal debt -- too much corporate debt -- and most importantly, too much government debt.
Enough Is Enough 18 min
Enough Is Enough (2014)
Enough Is Enough lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth-an economy where the goal is enough, not more.
Not Business As Usual 61 min
Not Business As Usual (2014)
Not Business As Usual is a provocative look at capitalism and its unintended price of success. The film tracks the changing landscape of business with the rising tide of conscious capitalism through the stories of local entrepreneurs who have found innovative ways to bring...
PBS FRONTLINE: Money, Power and Wall Street 227 min
PBS FRONTLINE: Money, Power and Wall Street (2012)
PBS FRONTLINE's four-part series on the history and consequences of the the 2008 financial crisis.  This in-depth investigation tells the story of how the creation of an unregulated financial market led to a collapsing investment bank crisis and an eventual government...
Broke. 77 min
Broke. (2014) ($3)
A cinema verite masterpiece...brilliantly captured... about an inner city pawnshop and a banker of last resort. The documentary from Gemini-award-winning filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld is set in a pawnshop. Its owner, David Woolfson, a bone-hard Jewish merchant from South Africa...
Casino Jack And The United States Of Money 118 min
Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010) ($4)
This portrait of Washington super lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- from his early years as a gung-ho member of the GOP political machine to his final reckoning as a disgraced, imprisoned pariah -- confirms the adage that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Oscar-winning filmmaker...
The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way 25 min
The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way (2013)
The Killing Fields is a documentary highlighting the importance that economics and taxation plays in wildlife conservation.
Will Work For Free 126 min
Will Work For Free (2013)
Will Work For Free is a documentary by Sam Vallely on the subject of technological unemployment. This work is protected under fair use and will always be free.
What's the Economy for, Anyway? 40 min
What's the Economy for, Anyway? (2010)
Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives. In this film produced by John de Graaf of AFFLUENZA fame, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely...
American Autumn - an Occudoc 75 min
American Autumn - an Occudoc (2012) ($4)
Shot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement.
Black 9/11: Money, Motive, Technology, and Plausible Deniability 39 min
Black 9/11: Money, Motive, Technology, and Plausible Deniability (2012)
Black 9/11 names the identities of several 9/11 suspects that should be investigated if a criminal trial were ever to be conducted.
The Untold History of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party 113 min
The Untold History of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party
I wish my teachers had shown me documentaries like this when I was in school.
The Carlyle Connection 49 min
The Carlyle Connection (2003)
A revealing documentary about the international world of private equity banking. The Carlyle Group, one of the largest investment banks in the world, is based in Washington and has accumulated its capital mainly by investments in the defense industry. On their list of...
Money & Life 86 min
Money & Life (2013)
Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?
The Tax Free Tour 53 min
The Tax Free Tour (2013)
"Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much?" Gaining insight from international tax experts, Backlight director Marije Meerman ('Quants' & 'Money & Speed'), takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally.  Those...
Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis 39 min
Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis (2012)
It’s a fact. In Europe, 1.5 million workers co-own their enterprises. They are called worker cooperatives, social cooperatives or participative enterprises. The documentary TOGETHER reveals, through extensive research and exclusive interviews, why those enterprises show a...
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny 33 min
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)
A video about the many cooperatives in Maleny, Australia, and the beneficial effects they have on the local community. It includes interviews with people from the Maleny Credit Union, the health food store, environmental coops and the kindergarden.
Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice 30 min
Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)
This film covers the basic economic principles of Prout, which offers a viable alternative to the materialistic, anti-human philosophies of Capitalism and Communism.
Obey 51 min
Obey (2013)
This is a film based on the book "Death of the Liberal Class" by journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges.
Poor Us: An Animated History Of Poverty 58 min
Poor Us: An Animated History Of Poverty (2012)
If we want to make poverty history, we need to understand the history of poverty. A funny and sinister animated odyssey through time.
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces 70 min
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks and big business, and growing inequity in our country, employee ownership offers a real solution for workers and communities. SHIFT CHANGE visits thriving cooperative businesses in the U.S. and Spain, sharing on-the-ground...
Melissa Young
Catastroika: Privatization goes Public 87 min
Catastroika: Privatization goes Public (2012)
It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov's Soviet Union. The term that he used in describing the death rattle of the empire was...
Stealing Africa: How Much Profit Is Fair? 58 min
Stealing Africa: How Much Profit Is Fair?
Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore.
Four Horsemen 98 min
Four Horsemen (2012)
The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really...
Park Avenue: Money, Power And The American Dream 59 min
Park Avenue: Money, Power And The American Dream (2012)
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. Gibney contends that America's richest citizens have...
We're Not Broke 81 min
We're Not Broke (2012) ($4)
America is in the grip of a societal economic panic. Lawmakers cry “We’re Broke!” as they slash budgets, lay off schoolteachers, police, and firefighters, crumbling our country’s social fabric and leaving many Americans scrambling to survive. Meanwhile, multibillion-dollar...
Oh Canada - Our Bought & Sold Out Land 96 min
Oh Canada - Our Bought & Sold Out Land (2009)
Dan Mathews reveals common misconception in how we deal with banks. Watch and laugh as Dan catches our politicians off guard with some simple questions. These questions are simple, but you'd be surprised who actually has trouble answering.
Apartheid Did Not Die 51 min
Apartheid Did Not Die (1998)
A John Pilger documentary. Apartheid based on race is outlawed now, but the system always went far deeper than that. The cruelty and injustice were underwritten by an economic apartheid, which regarded people as no more than cheap expendable labor. It was backed by great...
The Basic Income 100 min
The Basic Income (2008)
Grundeinkommen - ein Kulturimpuls (The Basic Income - A Cultural Impulse) is a German film with subtitles in 10 languages that makes the case for a basic income for all citizens. Subtitles Note: To make the subtitles easier to read, we highly recommend clicking the "CC"...
The American Ruling Class 89 min
The American Ruling Class (2005) ($3)
The American Ruling Classis one of the most unusual films to be made in America in recent years -- both in terms of form and content. The form is a "dramatic-documentary-musical" and the content is our country's most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally...
For Sale: The American Dream 32 min
For Sale: The American Dream (2012)
The US’ housing bubble burst nearly six years ago, but the worst may be yet to come. After a landmark settlement, the major banks have lifted a freeze on foreclosures and government relief has been too small to make a difference.
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? 39 min
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)
REAL ESTATE 4 RAN$OM outlines a genuine alternative to the global property speculation that forced so many into debt. Doubling the pressure, the tax game has become just that, with tax havens a favoured option for the wealthy. The result - we are taxing the wrong things...
Owned & Operated 106 min
Owned & Operated (2012)
Owned & Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the normal rules of social...
Pots, Pans and Other Solutions 90 min
Pots, Pans and Other Solutions (2012)
In Iceland, the first European country to wake up to an economic crash, people became aware that they could and should intervene in society and started demanding more democratic participation. The payment of bank debts by citizens went to referendum. The government was forced...
Free The Network 32 min
Free The Network (2012)
A documentary about the Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackerstrying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond.
97% Owned 120 min
97% Owned (2012)
97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives...
Alternative to Chaos 110 min
Alternative to Chaos
This is a synopsis of Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist Addendum & Zeitgeist Moving Forward documentaries, so that the justification and direction of The Venus Project is firmly established. The material has been arranged into 13 distinct topics. Each part is self sufficient so that...
The Money Fix 80 min
The Money Fix (2009)
Money is just information, a way we measure what we trade, nothing of value in itself. And we can make it ourselves, to work as a complement to conventional money. It's just a matter of design.Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take...
Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution 97 min
Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution (2011)
Scott Noble pulls together a combination of internet and original footage to create the first feature-length documentary on Occupy Wall St, telling the story and motivation behind the movement in its own words. It is a treatise to the beautiful awakening of human heart and...
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy 37 min
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)
In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered”, – a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy based on community and ecological values, not global financial...
Capitalism: A Love Story 127 min
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics 87 min
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)
The definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics by Jonathan Shockley. If you like it, consider buying the high quality DVD or donating a few $ at http://goldenruledocumentary.blogspot.com/
The One Percent 80 min
The One Percent (2006)
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO...
Capitalism Is The Crisis 100 min
Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)
This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace 174 min
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Adam Curtis directs this 3-part series about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built.
The Secret of Oz 110 min
The Secret of Oz (2009)
Thirteen years ago, in a documentary called "The Money Masters", we asked the question why is America going broke. It wasn't clear then that we were, but it is today. Now the question is how can we get out of this mess. Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is...
Inside Job 108 min
Inside Job (2010)
2010 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, 'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and...
Not For Sale 66 min
Not For Sale (2009)
People all around the world are becoming increasingly dependent on a small number of large multinational businesses. Monsanto controls 90% of the production of genetically modified seeds. Microsoft holds an 88.26% market share of the software industry, followed by apple...
Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy 114 min
Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)
This film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the "graveyard of social movements", the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States, the continuity and escalation of neocon policies under Obama...
¿Sería Buenos Aires? / Maybe Buenos Aires? 48 min
¿Sería Buenos Aires? / Maybe Buenos Aires? (2006)
A universal story that touches upon many of the themes that cross the modern world we live in: dislocation of people, destruction of their dreams overnight by crises they are not responsible for and their efforts to survive. (Spanish with English subtitles) (Español con...
The Yes Men Fix The World 86 min
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)
The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.
How the Banks Never Lose 48 min
How the Banks Never Lose (2008)
As the credit crunch continues to leave Britain cash-strapped and high street banks report huge losses, Dispatches investigates who is responsible for the current crisis. Reckless lending and risky investments have been blamed for directly driving up mortgage rates and...
The Shock Doctrine: How Disaster Capitalism Profits from Crisis 79 min
The Shock Doctrine: How Disaster Capitalism Profits from Crisis (2009)
An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.
The Reality of Me 720 min
The Reality of Me (2011)
The TROM documentary is trying to present, in a simplistic way, the world in which we, human beings, live. The world discovered so far, not some idea or personal choice. Moreover we tried to present alternative solutions to current problems and took into account the future...
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward 162 min
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is a feature-length documentary by Peter Joseph that argues for a global transition away from our current monetary-based economic system toward a more sustainable and equitable model known as a Resource-Based Economy.
Peter Joseph
PBS FRONTLINE: The Warning 55 min
PBS FRONTLINE: The Warning (2009)
In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone regulator warned about the derivatives dangers that would cause an economic meltdown nearly a decade later in the housing market.  Frontline investigates the story of Brooksley Born, who saw the systemic risk in the virtually...
Michael Kirk
The Economics of Happiness 65 min
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There...
Local Futures
PBS FRONTLINE: Inside The Meltdown 56 min
PBS FRONTLINE: Inside The Meltdown (2009)
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Is Wal-Mart Good For America? | PBS Frontline 56 min
Is Wal-Mart Good For America? | PBS Frontline (2005)
FRONTLINE explores the relationship between U.S. job losses and the American consumer's insatiable desire for bargains in "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?" Through interviews with retail executives, product manufacturers, economists, and trade experts, correspondent Hedrick...
The Day of the Dollar 50 min
The Day of the Dollar
Do we live on a bubble? Is it possible for the heavily indebted American economy to collapse and take all of us down in a free fall with it? Have the days of the dollar been counted? Is it really unimaginable that we will see the time of the Great Depression repeating itself?...
Money As Debt II: Promises Unleashed 77 min
Money As Debt II: Promises Unleashed (2009)
Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt…Where will it all end?
PBS FRONTLINE: The Secret History of the Credit Card 56 min
PBS FRONTLINE: The Secret History of the Credit Card (2004)
The average American family today carries 8 credit cards. Credit card debt and personal bankruptcies are now at an all time high. With no legal limit on the amount of interest or fees that can be charged, credit cards have become the most profitable sector of the American...
War By Other Means 52 min
War By Other Means (1992)
John Pilger travels to many third world countries to investigate the devastating results of loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). This film shows how many wars today are not carried out at the barrel of a gun, but by the monetary policies of global...
I.O.U.S.A. 81 min
I.O.U.S.A.
By now, you may have heard about our acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A., a film that boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. The film has been a huge hit, getting rave reviews from Roger Ebert and others...
Zeitgeist: Addendum 123 min
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
Zeitgeist: Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, is a continuation of the film Zeitgeist, the Movie. The film includes facts regarding the Federal Reserve System in the United States, the CIA, Corporate America and others, concluding the advocation of a...
The Corporation 145 min
The Corporation (2003)
The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.
Money As Debt: Revised Edition 47 min
Money As Debt: Revised Edition (2009)
This simple, low-fi video acts as an Economics 101 class for those of us who don't really understand the American system of money. If you'd like to know more about why and how the economy works watch this video.
Capitalism & Other Kids' Stuff 52 min
Capitalism & Other Kids' Stuff (2005)
Capitalism and Other Kids' Stuff tries to find answers to why we live the way we do and considers possible alternatives.  Created on one freezing Saturday afternoon in a church hall at Hebburn in the north east of England on a budget of £80, the film may be rough and ready...
Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room 109 min
Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room (2007)
Alex Gibney examines the rise and fall of an infamous corporate juggernaut. Based on the book by Fortune Magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, the film explores the lengths to which the company went in order to appear incredibly profitable, and reveals how Lay...
Alex Gibney
The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America 215 min
The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America (1996)
"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...Their secret is that they have annexed...
The Take: Occupy, Resist, Produce 87 min
The Take: Occupy, Resist, Produce (2004)
In the wake of Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former employees take action. They're part of a...
Avi Lewis
America: From Freedom to Fascism 111 min
America: From Freedom to Fascism (2006)
Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo set out on a journey to find the evidence. The film exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently...
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