Movies: Capitalism

Sammy is a 14 year old girl who makes YouTube videos. Robby just moved to New York City after college. Jerry is a single 34 year old network administrator living in the suburbs. Through their fragmented experiences, Consumers explores the dialectical...

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...

The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable, these rooftop dwellers have a privileged point of view on a society in the process of major transformati...

A Philippine government plan to transform ancestral farmland into a tourist resort sparks a dramatic conflict when villagers actively resist the development. As peasants and fisherfolk organize to stop the golf courses and yacht marinas, their seasid...

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church....

In this revealing program, noted author and economic activist Naomi Klein offers a lecture and a candid interview in which she expounds on the ideas at the heart of her best-selling book....

A young woman relives the events leading to up an act of violence, as she leaves her house and walks to a police station to meet with the victim....

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capitalism, faced each other in a merciless battle. On one side of the Iron Curtain and on the other, throughout the Cold War, the USSR and the United Sta...

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Romanian truck driver Stancu is worried about his nephew Dragan, who often takes risks to keep the schedule of the logistics company....

When Jan Peters' girlfriend accidentally takes his wallet on a trip to foreign climes, she leaves the filmmaker standing in Frankfurt Airport without a penny to his name. The only capital he possesses is a group ticket for the public transport system...

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The first animated movie made in the Soviet Union, it portrays a bloated caricature of a Capitalist devouring a massive heap of food and drink....

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 ...

Through the account of her research, encounters and experiences, Claire Latour, an influencer, explores the inner workings of the ultra-fast fashion giant: Shein. A true ecological cost, the quality and toxicity of the garments, sales techniques, gre...

Taking place in medias res, a desperate man has volunteered to lock himself in an isolated room for over 50 days or so, hoping that he will win a big cash prize to fulfill unknown dreams of his; all because of an unseen wealthy individual. His mental...

Cao Fei explores a virtual metropolis within the online platform Second Life. The work blends real and fictional elements of Chinese identity and urbanism to comment on capitalism and development in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Marxi...

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 steak. Grilled to perfection. Tender. Juicy. 100% sustainable. No animal had to die. But... there is a catch....

One day, you receive a present. And then another. And on and on. Till the present isn't a present anymore. It's a nightmare. And all because YOU are not Ivan Gallatin....