We’re Not Broke (2012)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 21分
演出 : Karin Hayes, Victoria Bruce
シノプシス
An exposé on how the government has allow U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes and the growing wave of discontent that it has fostered.
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
2008年9月、米国の大手証券会社リーマン・ブラザーズが倒産したのをきっかけに、世界金融危機が起きる。だが、その原因になった同国のサブプライムローン問題は、もう前年に発覚していた。なのに、誰もリーマン・ショックを阻止できなかったのはどうしてか。金融関係者のインサイダー情報や専門家の分析によれば、金融バブルをあえて大きくすることで荒稼ぎした面々がいるという。中には後のオバマ政権に加わる者もいて…。
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.
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
米国のNSA(国家安全保障局)で働き、同じく情報機関のCIA(中央情報局)でも働いた当時29歳の男性スノーデンは、米政府が国民のプライバシーを侵害していることに憤り、2013年、“シチズンフォー”というハンドルネームを使ってドキュメンタリー監督ポイトラスと連絡を取り、自分が知っているすべてをカメラの前で語ると言い、ポイトラス監督とジャーナリストのグリーンウォルドは香港でスノーデンと面会する。
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
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.
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.
10年前に弁護士ジェイクと離婚したジェーンは、ベーカリーの経営者として成功して以来、仕事と子供3人の子育てを両立させてきた。ある時、息子の大学の卒業式で行ったNYのホテルのバーで偶然ジェイクと再開。今や年下の女性と再婚したジェイクだが、ジェーンは泥酔した勢いも手伝い、久しぶりに彼とベッドを共にする。以来彼から言い寄られる一方、ジェーンは自分と同じくバツイチの優しい建築家、アダムに好意を抱く。
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.
リー・ゲイツが司会を務め、その巧みな話術で株価予想や視聴者への助言を行う高視聴率財テク番組「マネーモンスター」。番組ディレクターのパティの指示を聞かず、アドリブ全開でリーが生放送に臨む中、拳銃を手にした男カイルがスタジオに乱入してくる。彼は番組の株式情報によって財産を全て失くしたと憤慨し、リーを人質に番組をジャック。さらに放送中に自分を陥れた株取引のからくりを白日のもとにさらすようパティに迫るが……。<<監督としても高い評価を得ているジョディ・フォスターがメガホンを取ったサスペンス。拳銃を手にした男による財テク番組占拠事件の行方と、その裏に隠された驚がくの真実を活写していく。ジョージ・クルーニー、ジュリア・ロバーツ、ジャック・オコンネルらが顔をそろえる。>>
アナの誕生日の朝。エルサはこの日を完璧な一日にすべく、クリストフたちとともにとびきりのサプライズを準備していた。城中に張りめぐらされた赤い糸をたどっていくと、あちこちにアナへのプレゼントが隠されているという仕掛けだ。誕生日の特別なドレスに身を包み、エルサとアナは糸をたどり始める。だがエルサはどうやら風邪をひいたらしく、くしゃみが止まらない。心配するアナをよそに、ひとり張り切るエルサだった。
クリスマスに恋人ハーパーの実家に招待され、そこで彼女にプロポーズするつもりでいたアビー。だが実はハーパーは家族にカミングアウトしておらず、2人の関係も隠していることが判明し...。
男性と女性、両方の要素を持って生まれてきたブランドン。だが閉鎖的な町の人々は、衝撃の事件を引き起こしてしまう……。アカデミー賞主演女優賞に輝いたヒラリー・スワンクの演技が観どころ。
An emotionally stunted aunt tries to bond with her thirteen year old niece, who wants nothing more than to run away from home and become a juggalo.
1979年、父の教えである質素倹約を掲げる保守党のマーガレット・サッチャーが女性初のイギリス首相となる。“鉄の女”の異名を取るサッチャーは、財政赤字を解決し、フォークランド紛争に勝利し、国民から絶大なる支持を得ていた。しかし、彼女には誰にも見せていない孤独な別の顔があった。
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. The collapse of the U.S. economy is the result of conscious choices made over thirty five years by a small group: leaders of corporations and their elected allies, and the biggest lobbying interest in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. To these individuals, the collapse is not a catastrophe, but rather the planned outcome of their long, patient work. For the rest of the country, it is merely the biggest heist in American history.
Shaul (Uri Pepper), the film’s protagonist, a solitary divorced man, tries to overcome his difficult emotional state. He goes to see his father Shimon (Moni Moshonov) in Haifa and confronts him, blaming his father for all his current woes. Shimon and his partner Betty (Michaela Eshet), try to help Shaul with alternative methods, using stones with magical attributes and therapeutic oils. With their help, Shaul becomes much more optimistic…
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is one of the toughest med schools in the world (with an acceptance rate of less than 0.1%). After a student gets involved in a violent accident on campus, a film maker goes undercover at AIIMS to investigate the rising incidents of violence amongst the best minds of the nation. Four med students agree to be filmed for a year as part of this observational experiment. Through their personal journeys within these celebrated hallways of excellence- we enter a ruthless world of ambition and competition, where only the toughest can survive. Those who pass through must battle monsters- both within and without.
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Off a dirt road in rural Maine, a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith lives with her mother Julie. Michelle is quirky and charming, legally blind and diagnosed on the autism spectrum, with big dreams and varied passions. Searching for connection, Michelle explores love and empowerment outside the limits of “normal” through a provocative fringe community. Will she take the leap to experience the wide world for herself? Michelle’s joyful story of self-discovery celebrates outcasts everywhere.
A matriarch past the point of a nervous breakdown, her two daughters that don't give a damn, and the heat-seeking missiles of resentment they toss at each other.
'Hannah' tells the story of Buddhist pioneer Hannah Nydahl and her life bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. From her idealistic roots in 1960's Copenhagen to the hippie trail in Nepal, Hannah and her husband Ole became two of the first Western students of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa - the first consciously reincarnated lama of Tibet in 1110. Hannah went on to become an assistant and translator for some of the most powerful Tibetan lamas and a bridge between Buddhism in the East and the West.
Is "The Man" controlling the vertical, the horizontal and the channel you'll be on? In a privatized American Internet, is big business "Big Brother" or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero of a landmark case whose outcome will affect the rights of every American citizen. Following one man's personal quest to defend what he believes to be his inalienable rights, BARBERSHOP PUNK examines the critical issues surrounding the future of the American Internet and what it takes to challenge the status quo. Contemplating the future of the American Internet and the inalienable rights under review.
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A motley crew of university students set out on a journey in pursuit of a mythical form of hash, confronting a series of encounters that begin to unravel the myriad realities of rebellion.
Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated 50 years of his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.
Mateo follows America's most notorious gringo mariachi on his misadventures to Cuba.
In icy mid-winter Toronto, a group of pregnant women desperately strive to regain control of their lives. They have insurmountable forces against them: homelessness, drug addiction, violent relationships. But following these particular individuals are the attentive eyes of their guardian angels, the social workers of a unique public health initiative. If these expectant mothers can only manage to break free of the vicious cycles dogging their steps, they have a chance to keep their newborns.
Director Karan Bali's insight into a largely unknown slice of Tamil film history. American citizen Ellis R Dungan travelled to India in the 1930s. He intended to stay for six months, but he ended up living in Madras for 15 years, where he directed many key films of the era. This documentary explores Dungan's life and the profound impact he had upon the fledgling Tamil film industry.
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As a group of refugees tries to enter Europe illegally by boat, a storm suddenly appears and all hell breaks loose when an old man falls overboard. His perception shifts into another dimension: a dark, hallucinatory place. Driven by a mysterious power and desperately in search of his loved ones, his soul passes by the everyday reality of many castaway refugees at the border of the alleged paradise, Europe. The old man's spirit observes people on the street being chased away like dogs, follows an illegal worker and a drug-addicted mother and slips inside crowded refugee shelters. Wandering through this limbo, the old man questions the meaning of his existence.
TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Follow the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.
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