Economics Movies

It's been suggested that Americans would be better off if the United States was more like Sweden. Do the Swedes know something that we don't? Sweden:...

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

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...

Shows the interdependence of all workers, jobs, and mechanization in the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished product, focusing on...

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

Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use...

Based on Thomas Ferguson's book Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems this film...

After starting a painting business right before the housing crash, a filmmaker drives over 35,000 miles to track down the people who saw it coming...

After being tricked into burning his cash on the stock market, a man embarks on an odyssey through the business underworld with a single goal:...

Though the recession officially ended in summer 2009, the fallout continues for some 25 million unemployed and underemployed Americans, many of whom...

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

An overview of the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia.

Let’s Make Money is an Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer released in the year 2008. It is about aspects of the development of the world...

This documentary profiles economist and writer Marilyn Waring. In extensive interviews, Waring details her feminist approach to finances and...

Horse slaughter is more than inhumane. It's big business.

Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage of...

A visit to a furniture company helps students understand the concept of labor as a salable service.

On 11th January 2008, hired by the City of Cleveland, lawyer Josh Cohen and his team filed a lawsuit against 21 banks, which they held accountable...

In June 1893, European prospectors unlawfully took claim to ‘The Golden Mile’ on Aboriginal land. In little over a hundred years the...

FINDING THE MONEY follows economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or “MMT”. Kelton provocatively asserts the...