Economics Movies

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...

An exposé on how the government has allow U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes and the growing wave of discontent that it has fostered.

“I don’t think most people really understood that they were in a casino” says award-winning financial reporter Mark Pittman....

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

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing...

A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized economy undertaken in Chile during the...

Set in 20th Century Japan the documentary explores the role and power of Central Banks and how they can be used to change a country's economic...

This feature documentary is an inquiry into Canada's economic troubles of the 1970 and '80s. The film summarizes the facts at hand, including some...

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being...

An examination of the causes of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, studying how decades of social changes have influenced financial...

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

Diving deep into the true causes of the Great Recession, the financial crisis of the 2010s, renowned economists, investors and business leaders...

Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on...

Life is about choice. What we eat, what we read, who we elect; every day we make choices that determine how we want to live. But what if these...

An overview of the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia.

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...

Two decades after the initial exposé of the corporation, this follow-up unveils a world now fully remade in its image and perilously close to...

Unknown short stories from the past, the present and the future of fascism and its relation to the economic interests of each era. We will travel...