Economics Movies

An eye-opening look at budgetary disclosure practices of local US government agencies. Typically referred to as the 'budget' or 'budget report', a one...

Forbidden from marrying the man she loves by her wealthy businessman father because he is too poor Mildred Lord determines to find a solution. Attempt...

Ripped Off: Madoff and the Scamming of America tells Madoff's story superbly, although it was put together before Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in...

Three characters, three stories of "heretics", three food producers who think in a different way to describe the transformation of our Country in what...

Plunder: The Crime of Our Time is a hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was bui...

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has oscillated between dictatorship and democracy for ov...

Thursday, October 24 : the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out. Fueled by the ide...

This documentary focuses on boom-and-bust economic cycles, most notably that of Alberta oil during the '70s and early '80s. When the bust hit after a...

In June 1893, European prospectors unlawfully took claim to ‘The Golden Mile’ on Aboriginal land. In little over a hundred years the natural landscape...

This documentary from 1987 looks at the serious malaise that plagued the US manufacturing sector at the time. No longer competitive in the world marke...

It is becoming increasingly difficult to protect ourselves from extreme financial volatility. This feature documentary will examine the mechanics behi...

This documentary analyses the perverse monetary policies initiated before the euro inception. It focuses on the case of Spain and the terrible housing...

A discussion of the economic and political ideas presented in the book "The Incredible Bread Machine".

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

The film, based on the director's novel "The Economic History of Russia", tracks the evolution of the Russian business world from the IX to the XX cen...

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

An optimistic overview and explanation of the stock market with animated examples.