capitalism

The Corporation is a 26 award-winning 2003 Canadian documentary film exploring the history and analysis of the modern-day corporation. (145 minutes, 23 segments)

John Perkins talks about his former life as an economic hitman for the U.S., to cheat poor countries out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could repay and then taking over their economies. (46 min in 5 segments)

Frontline investigates how the economy went so bad so fast and what Bernanke and Paulson didn’t see, couldn’t stop and weren’t able to fix. (52 min)

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, largely ignored by the West, Russia and the former Soviet Bloc has become the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. (46 min, 6 segments)

As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, BBC’s Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill. (60 min in 7 segments)

Award-winning journalist Ron McCullagh reveals that for many children “child labor” is the best hope they’ve got of escaping absolute poverty. (12 minutes)

This is a 7 minute short film by Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) based on a book The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.