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Payback
Margaret Atwood's visionary non-fiction work "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on "debt" in its various forms: societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal and, of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal...Watch Movie
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Vortex
Internet changed not only our personal lives around the globe, it keeps changing dramatically itself. In a relatively short time, it changed from a free haven, full of new initiatives that were not only business-minded, but also creative and liberating, into "Big Brother" (an all encompassing...Watch Movie
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Revenge of the Electric Car
By 2006, as many as 5,000 electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, the electric car is back with a vengeance. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America’s future: fast, furious and cleaner than ever....Watch Movie
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The Vanishing City
Global trends in major cities around the world have changed rapidly in the last several decades. These trends are perhaps best exemplified in the city of New York. Told through the eyes of city planners, developers, politicians, small business owners, landlords and tenants,...Watch Movie
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Profit motive and the whispering wind
PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND is a visual meditation on the progressive history of the United States as seen through cemeteries, historic plaques and markers. Inspired by Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," its contemplative style belies the...Watch Movie
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Manufactured Landscapes
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" (quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams), Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he...Watch Movie
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Mardi Gras: Made in China
Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, this film follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival (where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity) to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China (where teenage girls live...Watch Movie
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Behemoth
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang's visionary new film BEHEMOTH details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove...Watch Movie
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Pot Country
Two people's relationships with the semi-legal crop that powers much of rural Northern California. Seen through the eyes of a fifth generation ex-logger and a back-to-the-land grandma who makes her living as a grower, POT COUNTRY is a story about survival and a community in flux. In many ways,...Watch Movie
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Inside Foxconn
Our iPhones, iPads and, more recently, Apple Watches are made by the Chinese company Foxconn in Shenzhen, China. Tian Yu decided to work there when she was seventeen. One month later she tried to commit suicide. Today, five years later, she's campaigning for better working conditions at the factory.Watch Movie
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Scrap Odyssey
SCRAP ODYSSEY's title (and Richard Strauss theme) refer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001. But this odyssey is distinctly down-to-earth. Polish documentarians Paweł Ferdek and Łukasz Gutt offer an arresting snapshot of the shifting plates of global trade by focusing on one Kyrgyz truck...Watch Movie
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Money for Nothing
Nearly one hundred years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman’s every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most...Watch Movie
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Family Business
Howie Snyder is an archetype: a retired Marine colonel in his mid-40s, a prototypical American entrepreneur struggling to make his business go. Howie's Shakey's Pizza franchise in Muncie, Indiana employs his whole family: wife, nine children and Howie himself. He is the representative of the...Watch Movie
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Pretpark Nederland
In his trademark tongue-in-cheek style, director Michiel van Erp follows a Chinese tour bus' exploration into the daily distractions of people in the Netherlands. Focusing on the mechanics of the Dutch tourism industry and events from Gay Pride Amsterdam to an Elf Fantasy...Watch Movie
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Unraveled
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations...Watch Movie
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A Day in the Life of a Coalminer
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A COALMINER is a bit of a misnomer as this short from the Kineto Production Company (which specialized in actualities and educational films) economically assays a day in the life of a coal mine. Bookended by a coalminer leaving his cottage for work and a...Watch Movie
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Artifact
Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, this riveting and award-winning documentary gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto and his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, as they fight a relentless lawsuit with record label Virgin/EMI and write songs for their album "This Is War."...Watch Movie
