Economy Movies

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

A narrative constructed in the wishful-filmmaking, or “fanumentary”, genre. Rural women artists unite via CR to support one...

Huntingdon Mayor Stéphane Gendron wants to encourage immigration to save his town, which has been struggling ever since large-scale factory...

The documentary shares powerful stories from across the U.S. and explores what it means to find economic security in America and the diverse paths...

A Canadian union and workers in a GM plant mobilize to save it in what will become the fight of their lives.

As the US debt spirals out of control, it polarizes society and threatens to disrupt traditional retirement with an impending freight train of...

When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, three women in search of prosperity have their faith in...

Common sense says you can't make a living in America playing avant-garde improvisational jazz. But Ken Vandermark does it anyway. Among musicians,...

Roni Beck is a man whose only thought in life is to become a professional comedian, but who due to his lack of success must live hidden in his...

The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.

In the 1980s, a swine flu crossed the Haitian-Dominican border and started to affect the Creole pig, an important commodity in Haiti. The...

"Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Mexico: its invasions, its revolutions, its...

Welcome to Florence, Arizona: a cowboy town with a prison problem. Just 8,500 residents call the tiny community home—but over 17,000 inmates...

Set in 20th Century Japan the documentary explores the role and power of Central Banks and how they can be used to change a country's economic...

Over the last 40 years, China has been transformed out of all recognition. The scale of its growth and the sheer speed of change has been...

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

This documentary is a case study of the multinational tentacles of the world's biggest bank, how it started and what its power means to everyone.