American Winter (2013)

Este documental analiza en detalle los últimos cuarenta años de política estadounidense, desde la aplicación del Manifiesto Powell hasta la situación actual, con la crisis financiera mundial, el movimiento Occupy Wall Street y el desmantelamiento de la clase media estadounidense.

Documental no sólo sobre las causas, sino también sobre los responsables de la crisis económica mundial de 2008, que signíficó la ruina de millones de personas que perdieron sus hogares y empleos, y, además, puso en peligro la estabilidad económica de los países desarrollados. A través de una extensa investigación y de entrevistas a financieros, políticos y periodistas, se muestra el auge de empresarios sin escrúpulos y la degradación de la política y la educación.

El siempre polémico Michael Moore denuncia el sistema capitalista de Wall Street, adoptando un punto de vista que analiza la crisis finaciera mundial y la economía estadounidense en plena transición entre la administración entrante de Barack Obama y la saliente de George W. Bush.

Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now… the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.

Ambientada en el arriesgado mundo de las altas finanzas, es un thriller dramático que compromete a las figuras clave de un banco de inversión durante las turbulentas 24 horas previas al inicio de la crisis financiera de 2008. Cuando Peter Sullivan, un analista junior, revela información que podría probar la caída de la empresa, origina una toma de decisiones en cadena tanto morales como financieras que producen un terremoto en las vidas de los implicados en el inminente desastre.

This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.

Este documental presenta el lado oculto de uno de los mayores escándalos financieros de la historia, en el que varios altos ejecutivos de la séptima empresa más importante de los Estados Unidos se embolsaron más de mil millones de dólares mientras sus accionistas y empleados lo perdían todo. Basada en el best-seller 'The Smartest Guys in the Room' (algo así como 'Los tipos más listos del lugar') de los periodistas de la revista Fortune Bethany McLean y Peter Elkind, la cinta utiliza declaraciones personales y cintas de audio y vídeo de la empresa para mostrar los increíbles excesos cometidos por la cúpula directiva de Enron y el profundo vacío moral que ocultaba la supuesta filosofía corporativa.

La industria textil fue uno de los motores de la Revolución Industrial del siglo XIX. Muchos de los trabajadores que contribuyeron a impulsarla con su mano de obra fueron las víctimas de condiciones laborales infrahumanas que ahora nos podrían parecer que son cosa del pasado, pero que por desgracia continúan siendo muy actuales. Y así nos lo quiere recordar The True Cost, un documental que nos alerta sobre la situación del sector textil y para cuya elaboración se ha buscado financiación en Kickstarter. Un total de 903 patrocinadores han contribuido para lograr recaudar 76.546$.

Requiem for The American Dream es un documento de innegable valor educativo para entender cómo funcionan los poderes que dominan el mundo globalizado actualmente: la arquitectura de sistema político democrático garantiza todas las facilidades para los propietarios de los medios de producción, quienes a su vez financian las campañas mediáticas a través de las cuales se ganan las elecciones. La acumulación de riqueza y la acumulación de poder son dos factores que van de la mano y que vuelven virtualmente imposible un equilibrio en la balanza entre "los poderosos" y la gente común, que carece de instrumentos reales para defender su modo de vida y su trabajo, alienado de por sí. Con un lenguaje sencillo incluso anecdótico a ratos, el afamado intelectual Noam Chomsky logra llevarnos por los entresijos del sistema económico estadounidense para explicar cómo el sueño americano fue devaluándose progresivamente en pesadilla.

Un tomate se planta, cosecha y vende en un supermercado, pero se pudre y termina en la basura. Termina? No. La isla de las flores lo sigue hasta su verdadero fin, entre animales, basura, mujeres y niños. Y luego la diferencia entre tomates, cerdos y seres humanos se vuelve clara.

Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing is the first film to take viewers inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies - past, present, and future - on our lives. Join current and former Fed officials as they debate the critics, and each other, about the decisions that helped lead the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. And why we might be headed there again.

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.

En este oportuno y entretenido documental, el experto en política económica Robert Reich destila el tema de la creciente desigualdad de ingresos, y aborda la cuestión de los efectos que tiene esta brecha cada vez mayor en nuestra economía y nuestra democracia.

Though the recession officially ended in summer 2009, the fallout continues for some 25 million unemployed and underemployed Americans, many of whom worked their way up the corporate ladder..

British historian and author Niall Ferguson explains how big money works today as well as the causes of and solutions to economic catastrophes in this extended version The Ascent of Money documentary. Through interviews with top experts, such as former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and American currency speculator George Soros, the intricate world of finance, including global commerce, banking and lending, is examined thoroughly.

Documental canadiense dividido en tres partes en la cual se analiza la evolución y el comportamiento de las corporaciones multinacionales modernas.

He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now, he sits on one of the upper floors of an empty bank building in the middle of Frankfurt, overlooking a skyline of glass and steel. And talks. In an extended mix of a monologue and an in-depth interview, which is as frightening as it is fascinating, he shares his inside knowledge from a megalomaniac parallel world where illusions are the market's hardest currency. Marc Bauder's 'Master of the Universe' is based on meticulous research and provides us with geniune insight into the notoriously secretive and self-protective 'universe' of which our nameless protagonist experiences himself a master. Where other films on the financial meltdown have focused on the epic nature of larger-than-life business, Bauder probes the mentality that made it possible in the first place. A tense drama where psychology meets finance - two things that are more closely linked than you would like to believe.

Aclamado documental que arremete contra el poder de las grandes corporaciones industriales, en las que el incorruptible Michael Moore trata de conseguir una entrevista con Roger B. Smith, presidente de General Motors, para poder preguntarle sobre las devastadoras consecuencias del cierre de una planta del gigante del automóvil.

¿Es posible que un ordenador prediga la economía mundial? Martin Armstrong, un consultor de finanzas que con 15 años ya era millonario, diseñó durante los años 80 un modelo de predicción de alta precisión basado en el número pi. Su reputación a nivel mundial hizo que los banqueros más poderosos de Nueva York le invitaran a formar parte de su grupo para manipular las tendencias de los mercados. Martin siempre rechazó la oferta. A finales de los 90, el FBI entró en su casa para requisarle los ordenadores y acusarlo de haber estafado 3.000 millones de dólares utilizando un esquema piramidal. ¿Se trataba de un intento de amenazarle? ¿Querían evitar que hiciera público el verdadero esquema piramidal en el que se ha basado la deuda mundial durante décadas? Las predicciones de Armstrong hace años que indican que el 1 de octubre de 2015 habrá una crisis de la deuda que sacudirá la economía mundial.

97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it's essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked, questions like; where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does this mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when the monetary, and financial system, breaks down? Produced by Queuepolitely and featuring Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the "HBOS Whistleblower" Paul Moore, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from the Jubliee Debt Campaign.

In At Night I Fly: Images from New Folsom, inmates at one of California's most maximum security prisons let us see their world. This world is less about dangerous drama and more, as one of them describes, "about isolation. About closure of both the mind and the heart. And the spirit." The documentary shows prisoners, most serving a life sentence, who refuse such closure and instead work to uncover and express themselves. Their primary tool is making art and the film takes us to New Folsom's Arts in Corrections' room, to prison poetry readings, gospel choirs, blues guitar on the yard, and to many more scenes of creation.

Serial Killer Culture examines the reasons why artists and collectors are fascinated by serial killers.

One Minute to Nine (also known as "Every F---ing Day of My Life") chronicles Wendy Maldonado's last five days of freedom before she and her son were sentenced for the manslaughter of her husband, and the years of domestic abuse the family experienced prior to his death.

Documentary - CAPTIVE BEAUTY is a feature documentary about four female inmates and a surreal beauty pageant inside Medellan, Colombia's all female prison. It's an intimate tale of the women's crimes, their childhoods, and a unique search for redemption. -

Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo' goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo. In 2006, female inmates were allowed to participate for the first time. In a state with the highest female incarceration rate in the country, these women share common experiences such as broken homes, drug abuse and alienation from their children. Since 1940, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary has held an annual 'Prison Rodeo'. Part Wild West show and part coliseum-esque spectacle, it's one of the last of its kind - a relic of the American penal system. Prisoners compete on wild-broncs and bucking bulls, risking life-long injuries. For inmates like Danny Liles, a 14-year veteran of the rodeo, the chance to battle livestock offers a brief respite from prison life. Within this strange arena the prisoners become the heroes while the public and guards applaud

Documents the daily routine in the only women prison in Austria.

He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows the story of Ron Cooney, who tries to work his way through the prison system to parole from a life sentence, and Lesley Earl, the woman who wants to help him go straight.

Omar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in and out of prison for more than 30 years — never out longer than six months. This intimate and penetrating film follows these two longtime African-American friends after what they hope will be their final release. Their lives take divergent paths in their native Baltimore as one wrestles with addiction and fear while the other finds success and freedom through helping others. With extraordinary cooperation from Maryland's innovative reentry programs — many run by former drug addicts and convicts themselves — Omar & Pete also provides a rare glimpse into an intense and very personal web of support.

Kirby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, England, October 1972. A chronicle of the fourteen-month strike by thousands of tenants to protest against the £1 increase in council house rents due to the Housing Finance Act.

An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino California.

'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.

El cineasta Alan Berliner realiza un retrato íntimo de su primo y antiguo mentor Edwin Honig, que atraviesa los últimos años de su vida con Alzheimer. Durante la conversación que da base al documental, se vislumbra la llama de su espíritu poético.

Rita Chiarelli, an award-winning recording artist, has decided to take a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues—Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison. She never imagined that her love of the blues would lead her to play with inmates serving life sentences for murder, rape and armed robbery. In what was once the bloodiest prison in America, inmates relatives will be invited to listen alongside other prisoners, to hear remarkable voices singing stories of hope and redemption. Let yourself be swept away by one of Blues’ most soulful pilgrim daughters who is finding out if music really is an escape.

During World War II, a hand-picked group of American GI's undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience. The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops used inflatable rubber tanks, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy again and again, often right along the front lines. Many of the men picked to carry out these dangerous deception missions were artists. Some went on to become famous, including fashion designer Bill Blass. In their spare time, they painted and sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique and moving visual record of their war. Their secret mission was kept hushed up for nearly 50 years after the war's end.

From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, which include Nixon's conversations on the war in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appointments, and more--while also exposing shocking statements he made about women, people of color, Jews, and the media.

Scottish rappers Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain reinvent themselves as West Coast Homeboys after they were signed by Sony.

The House of Suh” tells the story of Andrew and his sister Catherine, and how the values, conflicts, and dysfunctions of their Korean immigrant family led to the murder of Robert O’Dubaine. Eloquently narrated by Andrew, the documentary highlights issues of assimilation and the struggle between freedom and responsibility, raising questions about guilt, innocence, and the illusive gray area in-between.

Documental acerca de una brutal violación/asesinato, y del condenado erróneamente Darryl Hunt, quien pasó casi veinte años en prisión por un crimen que no cometió.

In 1986 Michael Morton’s wife Christine is brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he has years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate. Though he is virtually invisible to society, a team of dedicated attorneys spends years fighting for the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder scene. Their discoveries ultimately reveal that the price of a wrongful conviction goes well beyond one man’s loss of freedom.

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.