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The Rise of the Oligarchs

Al Jazeera documentary. Wealth inequality has risen to stratospheric heights. The statistics, the real statistics, sound like fragments spun off from a madman’s dream. (2014, 47 mins)

The Shock Doctrine

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. (2009, 78 mins)

Capitalism: A Love Story

Documentary by Michael Moore that focuses on the late-2000s financial crisis, examining the social costs of prioritizing corporate interests and profits at the expense of the public good. (2009, 127 mins.)

Blood Coltan

The West’s demand for Coltan, used in mobile phones and computers, is funding the killings in Congo. Under the close watch of rebel militias, children as young as ten work the mines hunting for this black gold. (2007, 52 mins.)

Consuming Kids - The Commercialization of Childhood

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products. (2008, 66 mins.)

The American Ruling Class

Light-hearted dramatic documentary that explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic.  (2005, 89 mins,)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

The third documentary film of the series, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward focuses on "Monetary-Market Economics" and its repercussions, along with a vision for a new world. (2011, 164 mins)

Freakonomics

Documentary film adaptation of the bestselling book about incentives-based thinking, it examines human behavior through consistently provocative and often hilarious case studies. Co-directed by Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Heidi Ewing, Morgan Spurlock, Rachel Grady & Seth Gordon.  (2010, 93 mins,)

Mickey Mouse Monopoly

The Disney Company's massive success in the 20th century is based on creating an image of innocence, magic and fun. This daring film insightfully analyzes Disney's cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power, and explores its vast influence on our global culture. (2001, 53 mins,)

Born Rich

First-time filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 23-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, captures the rituals, worries and social customs of the young Trumps, Vanderbilts, Newhouses and Bloombergs. (2003, 75 mins.)

The One Percent

A follow-up to award-winning "Born Rich", filmmaker Jamie Johnson,  heir to Johnson & Johnson sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire US. Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries. (2006, 80 mins.)

The Miami Model

Against the prescribed template of paramilitary oppression , information warfare, and profit above all values, activists converge in Miami at the FTAA to demonstrate grassroots resistance, creative action, and international solidarity—a clash between competing visions of globalization, soon to be known as the Miami Model. (2004, 91 mins,)

This is What Democracy Looks Like

Big Noise Films documentary weaves the footage of over 100 videographers into a gripping document of what really happened on Seattle’s streets at the 1999 WTO protests. The film cuts through the confusion and tear gas to paint an intimate, passionate portrait of a week that changed the world. (2000, 106 mins,)

The Fourth World War

Filmed in the streets of Mexico, Korea, Argentina, Palestine, Quebec City, and other locations all over the world, this is an emotional and very politicized look at glaring injustice and the emerging movements that seek to combat it. (2005, 78 mins,)

The Yes Men follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world.  (2003, 82 mins,)

The Yes Men Fix The World

A screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.  (2009, 95 mins,)

Land

Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers

Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq, uncovering the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so. (2006, 87 mins,)

We - Visualizing the Words of Arundhati Roy

"We" is a fast-paced documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest. (2006, 62 mins.)

Our Own Private Bin Laden

Documentary that examines the connection between privatization, deregulation, the free market and the globalization of terrorism. (2005, 63 mins,)

Democracy 101: G20 Protests in PIttsburgh

Documentary about the Pittsburgh G20 Protests, and the Police occupation of the University of Pittsburgh. This film is a collaboration between Pittsburgh Indymedia, Chicago Indymedia, Twin Cities Indymedia, and the Glass Bead Collective. (2009, 29 mins.)