Economics Movies

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...

Documentary directed by Johanna Lee's that explores the emotionally charged, cutthroat world of commodities trading. They try to make a living...

An examination of the causes of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, studying how decades of social changes have influenced financial...

The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the...

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

The story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash. Through interviews with some of the world's leading economists, including housing...

Emmy-winning journalist Danny Schechter investigates America's mounting debt crisis in this latest hard-hitting expose. The film reveals the unknown...

Life is about choice. What we eat, what we read, who we elect; every day we make choices that determine how we want to live. But what if these...

25 Million Pounds details the collapse of Barings Bank in the mid 1990s primarily by a broker called Nick Leeson, who lost £827 million ($1.3...

If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. This address boasts the highest number of...

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

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

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

As the documentary “Tax Me If You Can” explored, the tax shelter became one of corporate America’s biggest hidden profit centers in...

Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great...

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

"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'...

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

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

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