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see all genres ›Money makes the world go 'round and these documentaries probe the crime, corruption and conflict that often accompany its path.
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Genres / Documentary / Commerce
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Affluenza
AFFLUENZA is a groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and our quality of life seems to be deteriorating. By using personal...Start your free trial to watch
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Blood Antiquities
The European art trade, synonymous with wealth and glamour, has always involved a degree of stolen and smuggled art. Now, Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage is financing terrorism and the Taliban. From Afghans scrabbling in the sand for treasures, to the dazzling show rooms of unscrupulous dealers and...Start your free trial to watch
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A Blooming Business
It's time to wake up and smell the imported roses. On the shores of lake Naivasha in Kenya, flower farms have enslaved the locals, poisoned the fish and dried out the land. As we follow the lives of a few brave flower workers, the true cost of the world flower industry unfolds.Start your free trial to watch
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The Boot Factory
In a factory bunker on the outskirts of Krakow, a group of punk outsiders live by their own rules, bobbing their heads to the sound of their favorite bands while hand stitching leather boots labeled "hand stitched in Poland." The crisp charcoal-like images are framed and edited to vibrate along with the...Start your free trial to watch
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Brave New York
BRAVE NEW YORK is a free-form documentary that loosely chronicles the last twelve years of intense change in the East Village "hood." From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park and Wigstock in '92 to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens, beyond the yuppie invasions of the "dot com"...Start your free trial to watch
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The Business of America
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA is the first film to probe one of our most treasured economic assumptions: that private corporations can be trusted to make the investments upon which all Americans depend. The film contrasts two Pittsburgh steelworkers conventional faith in private enterprise with the actual...Start your free trial to watch
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Butterflies
Forget reality television. Broadcast yourself! With more than five billion videos viewed in a month and ten hours of footage uploaded every minute, YouTube was (at the time of the making of this documentary) the third most popular website in the world. BUTTERFLIES follows some of the flamboyant personalities who have made it...Start your free trial to watch
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The Charcoal People
This deeply human documentary examines the subjects of environmental destruction from two distinct angles. Impoverished migrant workers are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoals for pig iron used pimarily in the automobile industry. The film examines their daily lives and work as they...Start your free trial to watch
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Crossing the American Crises
On September 15, 2008, the United States fell into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The same day, we set out on a trip around the country to ask the American people what they had to say about it. In 2010, we went back to see how things had changed. Their voices reveal desperation,...Start your free trial to watch
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Fathers of the Sport
FATHERS OF THE SPORT is a feature documentary which uncovers the colorful and compelling history of legendary playground basketball. Produced by Providence Films and directed by Xavier “X” Mitchell, it will chronicle the history and lives of the many “legends” and unsung heroes who dominated playground...Start your free trial to watch
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The Five Cent War
In 1947, children launched an audacious chocolate bar revolt against candy manufacturers who raised the price of chocolate bars from five cents to eight cents. Though the dramatic uprising was sparked by only a few pennies, it caused a national sensation and drew fatal accusations of a communist conspiracy.Start your free trial to watch
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From the Ground Up
With few words and no polemics, FROM THE GROUND UP shows how an ordinary cup of coffee occupies center stage in the world economy. Traveling with the filmmaker from Guatemala to South Carolina to New York City and seeing each phase of coffee production unfold (the growing, picking, processing,...Start your free trial to watch
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Hashish
For centuries the lives of the people of Ketama, a small village high up in the mountains of northern Morocco, have been intricately tied-in with the drug hashish. Hashish as daily labor, hashish as a bartering good, hashish as business, hashish as the basis and philosophy of a social system, hashish as the medium of dreams...Start your free trial to watch
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Into Our Own Hands
When their lingerie factory goes bankrupt, the employees (mostly women) attempt to take it over by forming a cooperative. As their project takes shape, they come up against their boss and the reality of the marketplace. Their little enterprise becomes a theater where, in an impish tone, fundamental...Start your free trial to watch
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A Killer Bargain
The "killer bargain" referred to by this hard-hitting documentary’s title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don’t reflect the actual human and environmental costs associated with their production in the developing world. Consumers remain largely...Start your free trial to watch
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Made in China
MADE IN CHINA tells one of the millions of stories of migrants from rural China who comprise the backbone of the Chinese economic miracle. It provides a human face behind the ubiquitous label "Made in China." This massive dislocation of people may well represent the largest, most rapid migration in human history. The film...Start your free trial to watch
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Master Hands
MASTER HANDS is a sponsored paean to the machine age, an almost wordless celebration of industrial production at the Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan. Apparently produced for showing at a stockholders meeting, it was never distributed as seen here, but was later reworked for more prosaic users. The unique original print of...Start your free trial to watch