Economy Movies

In Papua New Guinea, pig tusks and shell money are currencies which can buy most things. Henry Tokubak’s dream is to create the first bank...

One year: this is the time left to the employees of the Ascoval steel plant to save their factory and their future. During these months of sacrifice,...

The streetscapes of contemporary Indian metros are largely dominated by products. The bazaar expands into all other parts of the city and claims a...

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

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...

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

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...

Bill Moyers takes a piercing look at how global economic changes are destroying the lives and livelihoods of hardworking Americans. The documentary...

China is pushing hard into German and European markets. Furthermore, Beijing is developing into an increasingly powerful military power. An...

This feature-length documentary film, Extraordinary Aliens, started from a personal attempt to document a specific context—people who have...

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

Filmed before Wall Street's October 1987 crash, this film is a riveting one hour documentary of a fascinating man, Paul Tudor Jones II delivering a...

George Fall, on the brink of becoming broker of the year and cementing his reign for a decade, flirts with the limits of legality, committing a fatal...

In this documentary mosaic of a continued social disintegration, seven filmmakers bring to the screen protagonists and stories that live in an abyss...

Famous worldwide for its great wines, the Bordeaux region represents French excellence. But this idyllic postcard also has its dark side. The workers...

United We Fall is a documentary about a North American Union that is being developed right now between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. For...

This informative herring aid from WWII makes no bones about the need to make the most of every fish.