Movies: Capitalism

Welcome to the enchanted world of capital evasion. The keys to fortune: knowing how to hide, find accomplices and take advantage of all the flaws. The rest of us mere mortals are left with austerity policies and the joy of living in an increasingly u...

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An experimental collage of commercials, political advertising, news footage, and found video used to mark the rapid capitalization of young Americans after the collapse of the 60s/70s youth movements....

In the form of an allegory of society, the film denounces a system dominated by money and power relations while focusing on the violence that structures cause on human relations....

Culled mostly from archival footage, this thought-provoking first volume of the Hidden Agenda series relays the little-known history of an elite group of power brokers who wield considerable influence over world affairs. Tracking the growth of the wo...

A free-falling take on expendable Ikea furniture, space consumption, and furniture names....

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Against the backdrop of an unfathomable megalopolis, in a story that follows the associative qualities of a dream logic, the protagonists quote from concepts of neo-liberal elitism, and a mix of religious delusions and hallucinations of the apocalyps...

Henry Ford, the legendary automobile manufacturer, James D. Mooney, the GM manager and Tom Watson, the IBM boss, were all awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the Nazis' highest distinction for foreigners, by Hitler for their services to the ...

A documentary essay film about coincidences, shattered lives and posthumous fame. A found footage family film about love and passion, friendship and heartbreak in Berlin between the wars. But ​a film ​also about self-sufficiency and recycling​, about...

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. How do we regain control of our data? What is su...

Based on Michal Witkowski's bestseller, communism transforms into capitalism as seen from the perspective of 17-year-old Michaska, who enters the gay community of 1980s Poland....

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This documentary focuses mostly on the 1930’s to 1950’s – arguably the most important period in modern American history. These decades included the Great Depression, the peak of labor militancy in 1937 (probably the closest the US has come to a popul...

Seventeen hundred eager attendees braved a snowstorm to hear this extraordinary debate. Held at the University of Toronto in 1984 - when academics still believed that socialism was the wave of the future - this event kept the audience captivated for ...

Chapter 11 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between 1950 and 1954 Narrates the period of the history of Mexico from 1950 to 1954, marked by capitalism an...

An examination of how the shared obsession with short-term profits between corporations and Wall Street is negatively impacting the foundations of American capitalism....

A strange voice speaks to humans, it tells us, “Come, here I am, before everyone, before you.” Few have listened to it, much less understand what it is trying to tell us....

Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses racial capitalism, and her activism outside Lisbon, Portugal....

A cable car ride through the San Francisco of the early 20th century marks the background that bids farewell to the alleged blessings of capitalism....