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Slumlord Millionaire 84 min
Slumlord Millionaire (2025)
Rents have gone up an average of 30% in the past five years in the United States – as of April 2024, the average rent in Manhattan was almost $5,000 a month. Some landlords are eager to get rid of long-term tenants and use various tactics including cutting off heat and gas...
PBS
Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film 96 min
Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film (2026)
Purpose asks the central question of our time: What is the purpose of our economies — and how can we change them? Director Martin Oetting follows two visionaries, Katherine Trebeck (founder of the Wellbeing Economy Governments alliance) and Lorenzo Fioramonti (who rises from...
Martin Oetting
China, The U.S. & The Rise of Xi Jinping 114 min
China, The U.S. & The Rise of Xi Jinping (2024)
Offering a comprehensive look at Xi’s vision for China and the broader implications — from his crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang to his provocative ambitions for Taiwan — “China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping” also probes the state of China’s economy and its trade war with...
Martin Smith
How to Defeat MAGA Tyranny: A Multi-Part Guide to Social Strikes 53 min
How to Defeat MAGA Tyranny: A Multi-Part Guide to Social Strikes (2026)
From South Korea to Serbia to the Philippines, people power uprisings have toppled authoritarian regimes — armed with nothing but conviction and solidarity.
OfficialZNet
Reagan: The Man Who Sold the World 32 min
Reagan: The Man Who Sold the World (2025)
Ronald Reagan is remembered as the "Great Communicator," the man who brought optimism back to America. But behind the smile was a ruthless counter-revolution.
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism 76 min
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
Neoliberalism – a business-backed ideology committed to cutting taxes, busting trade unions, gutting government regulations, and privatizing public services – is the dominant political and economic philosophy of our time. Yet despite capturing both major parties and shaping...
Peter Hutchison
BlackRock Is Terrifying 61 min
BlackRock Is Terrifying (2025)
This is not another mainstream video about BlackRock.By now, people know the public narrative:
The Weight of Chains 2 124 min
The Weight of Chains 2 (2014)
A damning indictment of neoliberalism in the Balkans, Venezuela, and Iceland, through stories of corrupt politicians, fictional tribunals, and economic colonization. It features exclusive interviews with Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone, and Carla Del Ponte.
The Shitthropocene: Welcome to the Age of Cheap Crap 47 min
The Shitthropocene: Welcome to the Age of Cheap Crap (2024)
The Shitthropocene is a mock anthropological view of humanity's consumption habits, turning a satirical (yet brutally honest) eye on how everything is turning to shit and why the impulse towards more might destroy us all.
David Byars
Finding the Money 96 min
Finding the Money (2023)
"A masterpiece! By far the most inspiring economics film I have ever seen. This film is a gift to humanity. Everyone should watch it." - Prof. Jason HickelAn intrepid group of economists is on a mission to flip our understanding of the national debt upside down.FINDING THE...
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History 54 min
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History (2024)
For generations, Monopoly has been America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and — for better or worse — the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and...
From A Village To The World: The Journey of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson 59 min
From A Village To The World: The Journey of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (2023)
Iceland has seen a dramatic transformation in recent decades, from being one of the poorest nations in the Western world, to a leader in many economic indices. What accounts for Iceland's rise? Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the former President of Iceland 1996-2016, shares his...
David Wallerstein
The Great Simplification 33 min
The Great Simplification (2022)
This 32 minute animation - in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The Great Simplification - an economic/cultural transition beginning in the not-too-distant future.
Nate Hagens
Jim Crow of the North: Redlining & Racism in Minnesota 58 min
Jim Crow of the North: Redlining & Racism in Minnesota (2019)
Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But the story also illustrates how African-American families and leaders resisted this insidious practice, and how Black people built...
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis 34 min
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
This 35-minute film is a united call for a new economy, delivered by those who have committed their lives to working for systemic change.
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis 43 min
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
This 42-minute film is bursting with examples of exciting localization initiatives across the world.
Inverted Totalitarianism 46 min
Inverted Totalitarianism (2024)
This 1Dime documentary is about the history and evolution of US Democracy, based on the political theory of Sheldon Wolin and his book “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism” and the Expanded Edition of his book “Politics and...
Power 2 the People 49 min
Power 2 the People (2013)
Produced by Afristar Foundation and Directed by FixerFilm, Power to the People is a documentary showcasing alternative energy and appropriate technology applications in South Africa. The film focuses both on low-tech, small-scale solutions implemented on household and...
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis 258 min
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024) ($20)
'In the Eye of the Storm' is a six-part documentary series about the dramatic journey and inspiring vision of one of the foremost political figures of our age, the maverick Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis.
Raoul Martinez
Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry 58 min
Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry (2017)
Official reports state that a worker falls victim to toxic chemical poisoning in the manufacturing process every five hours, though the actual toll is suspected to be much higher. Captured discreetly over a span of three years, 'Complicit' chronicles the journey of Yi Yeting...
Boomerang: Empire and Britain's Economy 31 min
Boomerang: Empire and Britain's Economy (2023)
Empire not only made the colonies. It made the unequal Britain we see today.
America Lost 76 min
America Lost (2019)
America Lost is a documentary triptych that explores life in three of America’s “forgotten cities”—Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, California. The film shows the dramatic decline of the American interior through a mosaic of stories including an...
Christopher F. Rufo
The Commons: Reclaiming What Is Ours 110 min
The Commons: Reclaiming What Is Ours (2019)
The Commons is a documentary film about communities re-asserting sustainable futures using consensus, equity and shared resources – ancient Commons principles.
Kevin Hansen
Seeding Change: The Power of Conscious Commerce 51 min
Seeding Change: The Power of Conscious Commerce (2021) ($6)
20 years ago, a young group of social entrepreneurs started a company to sustainably harvest açaí berries in the Brazilian Amazon. They joined a movement of purpose-driven companies looking to change the world through an alternative economic model. These "triple bottom line"...
The Laws of Capitalism 60 min
The Laws of Capitalism (2022)
The laws of capitalism have elevated the interests of the few above that of the many, but we can rewrite the code and restore balance to society. In this series, Professor Katharina Pistor (@Columbia Law School) breaks down the history, process, institutions, and participants...
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons 47 min
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land...
Jeremy Earp
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources 39 min
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)
Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- one that goes beyond "peak...
Media Education Foundation
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism 47 min
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical...
Sut Jhally
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy 46 min
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism.
Media Education Foundation
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger 40 min
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
What distinguishing feature do the world's healthiest and happiest societies have in common? According to acclaimed author Richard Wilkinson, the answer is simple: they have far less income inequality than other societies. In this new film based on his international...
Sut Jhally
Capitalism Hits The Fan 57 min
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style...
Sut Jhally
Growing Pains: the Ecological Cost of an Insatiable Economy 47 min
Growing Pains: the Ecological Cost of an Insatiable Economy (2019)
'Growing Pains'  is the title for a short edit (47min) of the award-winning documentary 'System Error'. A look at the global and political obsession with economic growth and the ecological and humanitarian consequences.
Florian Opitz
The Pandora Papers: How the World of Offshore Finance is Still Flourishing 43 min
The Pandora Papers: How the World of Offshore Finance is Still Flourishing (2021)
In a major international investigation, Four Corners reveals the secrets of the Pandora Papers.
Going Circular 88 min
Going Circular (2021)
Imagine a future where we mimic the genius of nature—to re-calibrate the way humankind lives, breathes, builds—respecting the limits of our resources and transforming the modern world. Going Circular unlocks the secrets to circularity, an innovative concept that could save...
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future 91 min
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, GIFT is a tribute to something that can’t be measured or counted, bought or sold. An intimate exploration of real-life gift economies, it’s a reflection on the creative...
Robin McKenna
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas 82 min
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas (2019) ($5)
“Home ownership to me means freedom—strictly. The more and more I evaluate this world, the more and more I understand: when you don’t own anything, you are nothing.” That’s how Greg Butler, a young black house flipper, sums up his view of the American dream.
A New Economy: Inside the Revolution You’re Not Hearing About 85 min
A New Economy: Inside the Revolution You’re Not Hearing About (2016)
What if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch as several organizations strive towards building a more cooperative future. By putting humanity before the bottom line, they are finding their place in a new economy no longer dominated by...
Trevor Meier
To The Ends of the Earth 75 min
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
"To the Ends of the Earth" follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction, bearing witness to a global crossroads. They call for human ingenuity to rebuild society at the end of the fossil fuel era.
David Lavallee
Money Puzzles 130 min
Money Puzzles (2016)
Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even university economics departments.
Power, Profit and Populism: The Battle for Hard Brexit 62 min
Power, Profit and Populism: The Battle for Hard Brexit (2021) ($3)
Brexit was presented as a populist revolution against the elite. But in the years since the referendum, a group of men deep in the heart of the British establishment have been carrying out a coup of a different kind – using Brexit to try and turn Britain into a low-tax, low...
Halting Hades: the Moral Imperative 63 min
Halting Hades: the Moral Imperative (2017) ($3)
Filmmaker, Scott Danville creates a film, Halting Hades: The Moral Imperative, documenting the the science, politics, and economics of the world's most important issue, climate change, and the factors that will lead to a revolution through the intersection of science and...
The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States 104 min
The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)
"In a time when many are questioning institutional integrity across society, seeking accurate and relevant information to help make sense of our supposedly post-truth era, Noble shines a spotlight into our dark past while providing a crucial class context often missing or...
Nowtopia: Economic Alternatives in Action 32 min
Nowtopia: Economic Alternatives in Action (2020)
The term ‘Nowtopia’ is increasingly used by both activists and academics to describe a variety of interconnected tendencies. It can, for instance, apply to seeking freedom outside the confines of wage labour, or the creation of liberated common space in the here and now.
The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump 55 min
The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump (2020) ($5)
For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman card.” This new film turns the tables and takes dead aim at the right’s own longstanding – but rarely discussed – deployment of white-male identity...
The New Corporation 107 min
The New Corporation (2022)
The Corporation (2003) examined an institution within society; The New Corporation reveals a world now fully remade in the corporation's image, perilously close to losing democracy.
Joel Bakan
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time 165 min
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)
InterReflections is an experimental, mixed genre narrative feature film by Peter Joseph, adapted from his book The New Human Rights Movement. The ambitious, nearly 3 hour work challenges not only contemporary thinking about society, it challenges the very art of filmmaking...
Peter Joseph
The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement 57 min
The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement (2020)
The film scratches the niggling itch that is lurking in many of our brains about the extinction of planetary systems that seems to be going on all around us, and the dawning realisation that something has to be done.
COVID's Hidden Toll 54 min
COVID's Hidden Toll (2020)
How the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers who have helped keep America fed during the pandemic. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you.
Fairytales of Growth 48 min
Fairytales of Growth (2020)
A film on Climate Change, Degrowth and System Change. The effects and risks of climate change are compelling young people the world round to call upon radical system change as the only solution to avoid a catastrophic collapse. This film studies the role economic growth has...
Denial: The First Step to Acceptance 92 min
Denial: The First Step to Acceptance (2016)
Derek Hallquist is an earnest young filmmaker who wants to get to the bottom of the energy debate. How is the world going to become a truly responsible consumer of energy? Is it even possible? While searching for answers to these burning questions, Derek decides to make a...
Trickle Down Town 113 min
Trickle Down Town (2018)
Tomasz Biernacki’s thought-provoking documentary about the homeless crisis in Seattle. Deftly interweaving in-depth stories of community members who are living the crisis on the streets with interviews of political leaders and community advocates, vivid images of the current...
Sand Wars 74 min
Sand Wars (2013) ($8)
By the end of the 21st century, beaches will be a thing of the past. That is the alarming forecast of a growing number of scientists and environmental NGOs. Sand has become a vital commodity for our modern economies: we use it in our toothpaste, detergents, and cosmetics, and...
Plastic Wars 54 min
Plastic Wars (2020)
Have efforts to solve the plastic pollution problem made it worse? Go inside the battle over plastics, recycling and what’s at stake.
Zero Weeks 87 min
Zero Weeks (2018)
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The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? 61 min
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Opening with a powerful ‘deep time’ perspective, from the beginning of the Earth to our present moment, BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's new film recognises the fundamental unsustainability of today’s society and dares to ask the big question: What will follow?
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos 114 min
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (2020)
An inside look at how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos built one of the largest and most influential economic forces in the world — and the cost of Amazon’s convenience.
'Winners Take All' and the Charade of Elite Philanthropy 43 min
'Winners Take All' and the Charade of Elite Philanthropy (2020)
Writer Anand Giridharadas describes in his book " Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World " why the rich do not pay taxes, but with their philanthropy determine the course of the world (and thereby undermine our democracy).
Economics for People 385 min
Economics for People (2019)
“It is extremely important for our democracy to function that ordinary citizens understand the key issues and basic theories of economics.” – Ha-Joon Chang
Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism 50 min
Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism (2019)
Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our data.
Luxury: Behind the Mirror of High-End Fashion 43 min
Luxury: Behind the Mirror of High-End Fashion (2019)
From coats to handbags, the demand for brand name fashion accessories is at an all-time high. Beyond the glamorous façade lies a culture that thrives on the exploitation and abuse of its migrant workers. The DW Documentary Luxury: Behind the Mirror infiltrates these...
How Poor People Survive in the USA 43 min
How Poor People Survive in the USA (2019)
Homelessness, hunger and shame: poverty is rampant in the richest country in the world. Over 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago. It can happen very quickly. Many people in the United States fall through...
You Can't Evict An Idea - Occupy London On Film 71 min
You Can't Evict An Idea - Occupy London On Film (2018) ($4)
You Can’t Evict An Idea reveals the strengths and weaknesses of leaderless activist groups and 100% consensus decision making. The challenges inherent in using disruptive protest to change the world are as relevant to the climate change protests today (such as Extinction...
The Curse of Abundance 69 min
The Curse of Abundance (2019) ($5)
Which come first, people or oil? When money and morality collide, there's only one winner. The Yasuni Park in Ecuador is a haven of biodiversity and home to indigenous tribes. It also holds a third of the country's oil reserves. Ecuador had agreed to keep the oil in the...
Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? 45 min
Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)
Does your job make little to no sense? Does it seem like it wouldn't even matter if your job didn't exist? Would it even make the world better? Then you likely have a bullshit job. In this documentary, vpro and American anthropologist, David Graeber looks more closely at...
Omnipotent Amazon 43 min
Omnipotent Amazon (2018)
No company stores more data than Amazon, the former online bookseller. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world. Every second Euro in online trading is spent at Amazon. Is the IT giant, with its unabated growth, about to turn our economic system upside...
The Donut Economy: Why Our Economic Model Must Change 45 min
The Donut Economy: Why Our Economic Model Must Change (2017)
In Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth, we see that markets are inefficient and growth is not the holy grail. It's time for a new economic model: doughnut economics.
FRONTLINE: Trump's Trade War 55 min
FRONTLINE: Trump's Trade War (2019)
As the trade war between the U.S. and China escalates, FRONTLINE and NPR take a look at what led to the rising tensions and what’s at stake.
White Widow (Modern Slavery, Farmer Suicide and Agriculture Crisis in India) 27 min
White Widow (Modern Slavery, Farmer Suicide and Agriculture Crisis in India)
White Widows portrays the tough and disadvantaged life of Indian cotton farmers in their village Dhanoli located in the region of Vidarbha, well known as the epicentre of farmer suicide.
Yoga, Inc. 58 min
Yoga, Inc. (2007)
Yoga has transformed from an ancient spiritual practice into a competitive, commercialized, multi-million dollar industry. And for a practice rooted in renunciation, yoga is making some people very rich. YOGA INC. poses this question: Can yoga survive the war between the...
Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture 23 min
Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)
A sequel to Ancient Futures, giving examples of Local Futures' systemic approach to the problems of the global economy. The 23-minute film challenges the commonly-held belief that globalization is inevitable or "evolutionary" and argues that we need to reduce the distance...
Love And Revolution 85 min
Love And Revolution (2018)
July 2018. The European media claim that the austerity cure in Greece has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite. A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. 5 years after "Let’s...
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 79 min
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2018)
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secret jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and...
Inequality - How Wealth Becomes Power 42 min
Inequality - How Wealth Becomes Power (2018)
Germany is one of the world’s richest countries, but inequality is on the rise. The wealthy are pulling ahead, while the poor are falling behind. [Online until: 17 September 2018]
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series 146 min
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the video series for you.
99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film 98 min
99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013)
In September 2011, The Occupy Wall Street movement propelled issues of economic inequality into the spotlight. 99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film goes behind the scenes of the movement, definitively revealing what happened, and why.
Autogestió: Adventures Into the New Economies of Catalonia 53 min
Autogestió: Adventures Into the New Economies of Catalonia
Catalonia is at the forefront of new economic thinking. They are a region rich in social currencies and in projects and people creating functioning post-capitalist societies. In June 2015, while in the midst of arranging the launch of the Exeter Pound, a local currency for...
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done 33 min
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done (2017)
This fantastic and entertaining documentary (full of biting satirical commentary) imagines what would happen if decades of neoliberal austerity in the UK was reversed by the democratic socialist programs of Jeremy Corbyn, who in an alternate timeline became the greatest Prime...
Real Value 70 min
Real Value (2013)
Award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science...
Banking Nature 87 min
Banking Nature (2015)
Protecting our planet has become big business with companies promoting new environmental markets. This involves species banking, where investors buy up vast swathes of land, full of endangered species, to enable them to sell “nature credits.” Companies whose actions destroy...
Street Life: Faces Uncovered 41 min
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.
#ThisIsACoup - How The EU Destroyed the First Radical Left Gov in Modern History 65 min
#ThisIsACoup - How The EU Destroyed the First Radical Left Gov in Modern History (2015)
Director Theopi Skarlatos and producer Paul Mason present #ThisIsACoup, a four part documentary series telling the story of how the European Union destroyed the first radical left government in modern history. Directed by Theopi Skarlatos. Produced by Paul Mason.
A Basic Income for All! 49 min
A Basic Income for All!
There is enough wealth for all of us.  What if we decided that every human being has a right to income security?  How could a basic income change our lives? Could this relieve our society from the stress and anger that comes with the rising inequality?
Reykjavik Rising 54 min
Reykjavik Rising (2015)
In October 2008 Iceland was hit with one of the biggest financial disasters any nation in the world had experienced. In response, citizens took to the streets creating what is now known as the “Pots and Pans Revolution”.
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA 560 min
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)
Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone 25 min
Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)
The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the financial bubble grows bigger and crashes bigger, but we don't seem to be getting any happier. To the...
Can We Do It Ourselves? 59 min
Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)
Within modern life exists a paradox: we celebrate democracy as a political system, but not as an economic system, even though our workplaces have a far greater impact on our day to day lives. It's fair to say that most workplaces under capitalist management are organized in...
Requiem For The American Dream 73 min
Requiem For The American Dream (2015)
In his final long-form documentary interview - filmed over four years - Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality. Tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the...
Peter Hutchison
Poverty, Inc. 91 min
Poverty, Inc. (2016)
The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry — the business of doing good has never been better.
The Overnighters 101 min
The Overnighters (2014) ($4)
A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow...
The Super-Rich and Us 113 min
The Super-Rich and Us (2015)
BBC documentary in which Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain.
Inequality For All 90 min
Inequality For All (2013)
A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and former Clinton cabinet member—as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy.
Jacob Kornbluth
Occupy: The Movie 90 min
Occupy: The Movie (2012)
A documentary that takes an in depth look into the political movement that sprang from the 2008 economic collapse. It gives a balanced analysis of the movement's successes and failures from those who were instrumental in sustaining the protests to voices from within academia...
Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy 132 min
Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy (2014)
"Only power that is hidden, is power that endures."
Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income 20 min
Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)
This film presents a huge social problem called technological unemployment. Whilst doing so, the film also presents two potential solutions to this major social issue. The transitional path described in the film concerns a transition towards a job guarantee program of...
No Hay Mañana (2012) - There's No Tomorrow 35 min
No Hay Mañana (2012) - There's No Tomorrow
Documental animado que trata sobre el agotamiento de los recursos, la energía, y el crecimiento. Realizado por Dermot O'Connor - Incubate Pictures - El problema del crecimiento infinito en un planeta finito: una paradoja. El vídeo nos introduce en el análisis del problema...
El Dinero Es Deuda I (2006) - Money as Debt I 47 min
El Dinero Es Deuda I (2006) - Money as Debt I
El documental presenta la mecánica de creación y control del dinero, y por ende del poder, por parte de unos pocos haciendo uso de los bancos, y explica de forma muy clara mediante una historia de animación el cómo se pasó del uso exclusivo de monedas al uso de billetes, y...
Chasing Madoff 91 min
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...
Fed Up 95 min
Fed Up (2014)
This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S.
Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor 33 min
Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor (2014)
Temp labor is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Increasingly, temp workers are part of a business strategy to keep costs down and profits high. From mega-retailers to mom-and-pop shops, temps are hired to do some of the hardest and most dangerous jobs. While...
Mind Over Money 53 min
Mind Over Money (2010)
In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents "Mind Over Money"—an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. The...
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