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Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before. The documentary provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities, and experiences regarding its implementation, globalization, automation, Donald Trump. The middle class is falling apart, but people hear more talk about the causes than about solutions." --
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today's growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world's most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into the future."...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"It is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time, the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality, tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the wealthiest...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Grandma Hattie Mae's family is poor and struggling to save her home. The Willis family is filthy rich. When Hattie's daughter, Rose, and son-in-law, Frank, go to work at the Willis estate, it appears as if their financial worries are over. But when Mrs. Willis tries to buy Frank's affections, both families learn that choices often come with a price.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Democracies should protect their citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but the United States is increasingly failing to do so. This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the experiences of citizens where factory closures and outsourcing...
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