Economics Movies

Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. ...

Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.

Alexis Conran investigates whether loyalty cards save consumers money when shopping, looking into the possibility that supermarkets could be...

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power...

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...

25 Million Pounds details the collapse of Barings Bank in the mid 1990s primarily by a broker called Nick Leeson, who lost £827 million ($1.3...

He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now, he sits on one of the upper floors of an...

The story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash. Through interviews with some of the world's leading economists, including housing...

A documentary on the history and present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions...

When the world’s financial bubble blew, the solution was to lower interest rates and pump trillions of dollars into the sick banking system....

After three of the most dynamic and successful U.S. charities were shut down by conservative charity watchdogs, destroying lives and cutting off...

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror...

If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. This address boasts the highest number of...

With the country's debt growing out of control, Americans by and large are unaware of the looming financial crisis. This documentary examines several...

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant...

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...

Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans...

The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the...

This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family...