Economics Movies

Set in 20th Century Japan the documentary explores the role and power of Central Banks and how they can be used to change a country's economic...

A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized economy undertaken in Chile during the...

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power...

Let’s Make Money is an Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer released in the year 2008. It is about aspects of the development of the world...

When the world’s financial bubble blew, the solution was to lower interest rates and pump trillions of dollars into the sick banking system....

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

Based on Thomas Ferguson's book Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems this film...

After starting a painting business right before the housing crash, a filmmaker drives over 35,000 miles to track down the people who saw it coming...

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

“I don’t think most people really understood that they were in a casino” says award-winning financial reporter Mark Pittman....

"Where is my money?" - the question that everyone is sure to have asked themselves at some point is the starting point for filmmaker Philipp Enders'...

The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg, takes an intriguing, two-part look at Smith and the evolution and relevance of his...

Diving deep into the true causes of the Great Recession, the financial crisis of the 2010s, renowned economists, investors and business leaders...

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...

This feature documentary is an inquiry into Canada's economic troubles of the 1970 and '80s. The film summarizes the facts at hand, including some...

Spanning over 2,000 years, this study looks at the complex relationship between Jewish and Catholic thought from a social and historical perspective....

Once heralded as the spirit of American manufacturing, music, and democracy, Detroit kicked its fiscal can down the road for decades plummeting into...

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...

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being...

Al Levin examines the system which functions to keep the working class in the United States oppressed.