State, Private or Commons and The Public Choice Theory

When Professor Elinor Ostrom became the first women to win a Nobel Prize for economics in 2009, or to be precise, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences that she shared with Richard Williamson, most economists probably sighed with surprise and said something along...

Derek Wall · 6,143 views · 50%

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...

110 min · 50,572 views · 89%

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

"Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands...

4 min · 36,466 views · 100%

The Story of Broke

The United States isn't broke; we're the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these...

8 min · 7,471 views · 75%

Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love

A taste of the upcoming feature documentary, Occupy Love. This is a community funded film. We are in the LAST WEEK of our crowd funding campaign at http://www.indiegogo.com/Occupy-Love Please check it out! We can't do it without you... \"Love is the felt experience of...

http://www.youtube.com/user/fiercelightfilms · 2,993 views · unrated

TEDx - Peter Joseph: An Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy

This was a live March 21st, 2011 TEDx [Portugal] talk by Peter Joseph called: "An Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy."

18 min · 7,148 views · 100%

Karma Kitchen

What is the value of something that doesn't have a price? That is the fundamental question raised every week at Karma Kitchen, a volunteer-run restaurant in Berkeley. Based on an experiment in generosity, guests are presented with a $0 bill at the end of each meal. Found and...

2 min · 5,187 views · 100%

Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way

There is no alternative ("Tina") to capitalism?

Richard Wolff · 54,400 views · 92%

You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress

The following is an excerpt of “Columbus and Western Civilization” written by Howard Zinn that appears in the Disinformation anthology You Are Still Being Lied To edited by Russ Kick.

Howard Zinn · 32,040 views · 94%

Martin Luther King - At the Mountain Top Speech

This is a video compiled of footage and images from various sources of Martin Luther Kings Last speech known as 'At the mountain top'. It is supplemented with a selection of thought provoking music.

20 min · 4,521 views · 75%

At The River I Stand (trailer)

This video is about race, class, politics, workers rights, the civil rights and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's. last speech on April 3rd, 1968 and his assassination on April 4th, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel.

5 min · 3,466 views · unrated

Embracing Markets, Opposing "Capitalism"

Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. That doesn’t mean it should be understood as involving support for capitalism.

Gary Chartier · 7,500 views · 75%

Moyers & Company: This Economist Will Blow Your Mind

Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill Moyers to shine light on the disaster left behind in capitalism's wake, and discusses how to battle for economic justice. A noted professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and now visiting professor at Manhattan's New...

44 min · 14,654 views · 96%

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

The old story of our culture is losing its meaning for more and more people. Perhaps almost everyone can feel it these days. But a new story is emerging too - one that recognizes some long forgotten truths about who we are and our relationship to the world.

8 min · 39,112 views · 94%

The Counter Economy (2013) (trailer)

THE COUNTER ECONOMY: A WHOLE NEW WORLD IS GROWING UP FROM THE ASHES - A presentation by Katie Patrick. The Counter Economy; a self sustaining ethical economy that respects the boundaries of nature. It is growing on top of the existing polluting economy.

1 min · 4,502 views · 31%

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...

40 min · 7,299 views · 100%

What Would It Look Like? (2009)

What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions? Or are we being called to question a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our...

25 min · 18,550 views · 97%

Hyperinflation Nation (2010)

Hyperinflation Nation starring Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Jim Rogers, Tom Woods, Gerald Celente, and others. Prepare now before the US dollar is worthless.

28 min · 1,073 views · 50%

Max Does Westminster (2012)

Max Keiser is a world renowned economic commentator and gives his breakdown of the history of ‘bubbles’ and how the City continues to game a system to breaking point. He is flanked by Respect MP George Galloway.

65 min · 716 views · unrated

DIAGRAMS & DOLLARS: modern money illustrated (Part 1)

J.D. ALT · 775 views · unrated

DIAGRAMS & DOLLARS: modern money illustrated (Part 2)

5. TREASURY BONDS—Are they really what we think they are?

J.D. Alt · 650 views · unrated

Monopoly Men (1999)

The Federal Reserve, or the Fed as it is lovingly called, may be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil, its real business remains to be discovered.

47 min · 682 views · unrated

Theft By Deception: Deciphering The Federal Income Tax (2002)

The misrepresentation and misapplication of the United States federal income tax constitutes the largest acquisition of wealth by way of deception in history.

88 min · 747 views · unrated

"The Job Guarantee" featuring Pavlina Tcherneva

The reaction to Jesse Myerson’s Rolling Stone piece “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For” went beyond anyone’s expectation. Many conservative commentators

14 min · 832 views · 58%

PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy

10 minutes of plain-spoken awesome. Economic Democracy is the BIG IDEA of our time. Make sure you don't miss the awesome moment starting at 2:30 that goes until 3:25!

10 min · 8,912 views · 75%

We Need an International Minimum Wage

The deadly collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh has sparked calls for better worker treatment. The revelation that Apple manages to

Hamilton Nolan · 14,029 views · 83%

What Happens When You Expose Corporate Corruption From The Inside? She Knows All Too Well.

Sherron Watkins called out corporate corruption before whistle-blowing was cool. So why do decent folks sometimes get awkward around her?

2 min · 5,976 views · 75%

April 15: Funding the Empire

Tax day, April 15th, is a day of celebration in the United States. On this day we citizens of the great republic take pride in the fact that we can come together in a democratic society and make decisions cooperatively with one another. The fruits of our labor, beholden to...

Grant Mincy · 4,532 views · 75%

Ghost Town 3: USA

Clusters of vacant dwellings across America reveal the reasons why the banking system exploded in the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Fred Harrison exposes the financial logic that drove the boom/bust, and identifies the tax reform that would stave off the next cyclical economic...

8 min · 713 views · unrated

Chasing Madoff (2010)

The story of how a group of investigators pursued and exposed Bernie Madoff and his elaborate ponzi scheme which defrauded investors out of $50 billion. The film includes interviews with Markopolos and fellow investigators Frank Casey, Neil Chelo, Michael Ocrant, and Gaytri...

91 min · 26,067 views · 71%

The French Are Right: Tear Up Public Debt - Most Of It Is Illegitimate Anyway

As history has shown, France is capable of the best and the worst, and often in short periods of time. On the day following Marine Le Pen's Front National victory in the European

Razmig Keucheyan · 27,580 views · 100%

The Banksters: Madoff With America (2013)

Bernie Madoff is at the hub of the biggest conspiracy the world has ever known, according to Mr. X. Dave Edmund, a small Independent film maker puts it all on the line to bring the world the truth.

125 min · 457 views · unrated

Debtland (2008)

Mortgages doled out to people on the breadline, loans to refugees with no English and no jobs, reams of maxed out credit cards; welcome to Debtland. But this is not America’s sub-prime meltdown. We are in Australia, investigating the country's own subprime crisis, every bit...

45 min · 568 views · unrated

Can Civilization Survive "Really Existing Capitalism"? An Interview With Noam Chomsky

For decades now, Noam Chomsky has been widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive (linguist, philosopher, social and political critic) and the leading US dissident since the Vietnam War. Chomsky has published over 100 books and thousands of articles and essays...

C.J. Polychroniou · 11,733 views · 94%

The Revolution Will Be Televised - Series 3

Satirical series filmed in the USA and UK. It features bite-sized comedy hits, from fictionalised characters to stunt-led sketches, which brings the corruption, greed and hypocrisy of politicians, avariciousmultinationals and tax-shy corporations who have been taking the...

174 min · 837 views · 100%

Gravy Trains:

The phantom tram in Washington DC exposes the economics of infrastructure. Railways ought to have combined profits for investors with cutting costs to serve the interests of passengers. Instead, the net gains - the value that is crystallised in the land market as rents - were...

7 min · 238 views · unrated

How the U.S. Can Sustainably Become the World's Top Economy Again

China has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s top economy. But in taking a few examples from China, as well as investing in jobs that stay in America and taking steps to insure economic stability for the majority of American workers, the U.S. can come out on top again. And we...

Carl Gibson · 2,726 views · 100%

Holistic Eco-Nomics

A short film about the interconnected issues of money, growth, poverty and climate change.

11 min · 6,790 views · 88%

The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week

To save the world—or really to even just make our personal lives better—we will need to work less.

Michael J. Coren · 26,990 views · 92%

Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring On Sex, Lies And Global Economics (1995)

In this feature-length documentary, Marilyn Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining it as a value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their monetary value. As a result, unpaid work (usually performed by women) is unrecognized while...

94 min · 4,497 views · 100%

UK's First 'Share Shop' Opens for business

A new kind of shop is aiming to transform the future of retail by lending rather than selling items and fostering more meaningful connections with the things we use

Lucy Purdy · 23,106 views · 100%

An Economic Hit Man Speaks Out: John Perkins on How Greece Has Fallen Victim to ''Economic Hit Men''

John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, discusses how Greece and other eurozone countries have become the new victims of "economic hit men."

Michael Nevradakis · 37,104 views · 94%

Greece and Spain helped postwar Germany recover. Spot the difference.

Sixty years ago, half of German war debts were cancelled to build its economy. Yet today, debt is destroying those creditors. The "strategy" in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain today is to put the burden of adjustment solely on the debtor country to make its economy more...

Nick Dearden · 313 views · unrated

Capitalism's Stormy Sea

Richard Swift begins his journey through political alternatives to capitalism by looking at the nature of the beast they seek to oppose.

Richard Swift · 1,253 views · unrated

The End of Capitalism Has Begun

Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian

Paul Mason · 43,637 views · 97%

This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'

Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened

Paul Kingsnorth · 2,416 views · 100%

Cut the Working Week to a Maximum of 20 Hours, Urge Top Economists

Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktank

Heather Stewart · 5,597 views · 94%

Andrew Kliman - The Failure of Capitalist Production Pt 1

One of the few genuinely Marxist economists presents his views on the recession and Keynesianism.

58 min · 186 views · unrated

Enraizando | Finding Our Roots (trailer)

FINDING OUR ROOTS: community, culture, and sustainability Our project was born with two desires at heart: to take root in a new culture and to experience reality outside of the big metropolis.

4 min · 702 views · unrated

Tired of Capitalism? There Could Be a Better Way.

Capitalism is a coercive economic system that creates persistent patterns of economic deprivation.

Matt Bruenig · 5,608 views · 94%

Five Examples of How Monsanto Brainwashes School Children with Propaganda

Monsanto has a lot of money invested in the genetically modified seed, farm chemical and many other industries, but they also have a lot invested the hearts and minds of the next generation.

Nick Meyer · 122 views · unrated

Time Is Art (Official Trailer)

The feature documentary film follows the journey of a writer, compelled to make sense of the mysterious and powerful energy she felt at her aunt’s deathbed. Considering herself a skeptic, a series of strange coincidences leads her on an exploration of synchronicity – the...

2 min · 144 views · unrated

On the Meaning of Capitalism, We Don't Agree

Within conversations on the left, many of us use the term "capitalism," but we aren't all using it to mean the same thing. Among both its champions and opponents, capitalism acquired too many different meanings over the 200 to 300 years of its global ascendancy. I am...

Richard D. Wolff · 3,842 views · 88%

Russell Brand Vs Mcdonalds & Monsanto TTIP Globalisation

Russell Brand - The Trews Economics of Happiness

14 min · 182 views · unrated

Marxism 101: How Capitalism Is Killing Itself With Dr. Richard Wolff

Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world's most influential thinkers...

35 min · 13,962 views · 91%

Street Life: Faces Uncovered (2016)

Our mission is to enlighten and educate the general population about the grassroots issues of poverty and homelessness in Chicago, the US and abroad, and tell the story from the inside out.

41 min · 5,301 views · 88%

Neoliberalism—The Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.

George Monbiot · 57,688 views · 82%

Money Can't Buy Life

The Economic Enigma of Money vs Life: [A Social Value Disorder]

Craig Bridges · 1,340 views · 75%

The Pitchforks Are Coming... for Us Plutocrats

Memo: From Nick Hanauer To: My Fellow Zillionaires

Nick Hanauer · 182 views · unrated

Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics

In this feature-length documentary, Marilyn Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining it as a value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their monetary value. As a result, unpaid work (usually performed by women) is unrecognized while...

90 min · 919 views · 75%

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