American Winter (2013)

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.

미국 리먼 브라더스의 파산 신청과 최대 보험사 AIG의 몰락은 미국 경제를 뒤흔들었다. 월 스트리트 쇼크로 글로벌 주식 시장은 그 즉시 휘청거렸다. 전 세계는 수십 조 달러의 빚더미에 올라앉았고 경제 침체는 계속되었다. 집 값과 자산은 대폭락했고, 3천만 명이 해고됐으며, 5천만 서민들은 극빈자가 되었다. 세계 경제를 파탄으로 내몰았지만… 여전히 돈과 권력을 손에 쥐고 있을 주범들은 과연 어디 있는가.

미국은 자유의 나라로 알려져 있다. 미국의 모든 용감한 기업 개척자들은 자유를 외쳤고, 또한 일찍이 정부의 헌법제정자들은 이를 민주주의라는 형태의 포맷으로 취해왔다. 그리고 어디서나, 어떤 방식으로든 "자본주의"라는 형식은 미국의 역사 길을 따라오게 되었고, 그것은 헌법이나 권리장전에서 항상 신성시 되어 왔다. 마이클 무어의 다큐멘터리 영화인 "자본주의: 러브스토리" 는 자본주의의 결점과 약점을 부각시키고 변호하는 방식으로 감독 본인의 추측을 기반으로 만들어진 주관적이면서 객관적인 다큐멘터리이다. 마이클 무어 감독은 최근 미국에 닥친 불황은 예측 가능했던 사건의 일례라고 주장한다. 영화를 보고 나면, 특히 부가영상들까지 보고 나면 (부가영상에는 관객들의 쉬운 이해를 위해 각종 관계자들의 인터뷰와 스피치, 강의내용 등을 기록하였다) 관객들은 다른 형태의 상거래가 존재한다는 것을 깨닫게 될 것이며, 또한 "자본주의" 라는 말과 "미국"이라는 단어는 같은 의미로 받아들여도 무방할거라는 의식을 관객들에게 심어주고 있다. 마이클 무어는 이 영화를 본 관객들은 이 영화에 감사하는 마음을 가지고 자리를 뜨게 될 것이라 확신한다. 미국 개봉에선 뉴욕과 LA의 4개 극장에서 1주일간 맛보기 상영한 후, 2주차에 전국 962개 극장으로 확대상영에 돌입한 첫 주말 3일 동안 445만 불의 수입을 벌어들이며 주말 박스오피스 8위에 랭크 되었다.

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.

2008년 월스트리트, 전세계 금융위기 하루 전. 갑작스런 인원 감축으로 퇴직 통보를 받는 리스크 관리 팀장 에릭은 자신의 부하직원 피터에게 곧 닥칠 위기상황을 정리한 USB를 전하며 회사를 떠난다. 그날 밤 에릭에게 전달 받은 자료를 분석하던 MIT박사 출신의 엘리트사원 피터는 자신들이 관리하고 있는 파생상품의 심각한 문제를 발견하고 상사에게 보고한다. 그리고 이른 새벽 긴급 이사회가 소집되고, 그들만이 살아남기 위한 작전에 돌입하는데…

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.

포츈지 기자의 베스트 셀러에 기초하여 미국 역사상 최대의 스캔들로 기록된 엔론의 파산을 다룬 다큐멘터리. 7대 기업에 속하던 엔론이 파산하던 순간, 엔론의 최고 경영진은 10억 달러 이상의 돈을 챙겨서 유유히 사라졌으며 투자자와 노동자들은 모든 것을 잃어버렸다.

패션산업의 화려함과 저렴함 뒤에 숨은 '진짜 비용'은 과연 무엇일까? 인간과 환경, 그리고 우리 자신을 착취하는 의류산업의 진상을 낱낱이 고발한다.

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

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.

빌 클린턴 정부 시절 노동부 장관인 로버트 라이시가 U.C. 버클리에서 강의한 '부와 빈곤(Wealth and Poverty)' 강의를 각색한 다큐멘터리 영화.

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.

무한 이윤을 추구하는 기업이란 무엇인가? 은 놀랍고도 쇼킹한 자료화면을 풍부하게 이용하여 관객들과 함께 역사와 현대의 '기업'들에 관한 스터디 케이스를 시작한다. 노엄 촘스키, 마이클 무어, CEO 레이 앤더슨과 밀톤 프리에드만의 인터뷰를 통해 미래의 비젼을 명료하게 말하면서 사기업 뒤의 기관에 대한 집요한 기만성을 없애려 하고 있다.

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.

A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

1999년 마틴 암스트롱의 사무실에 들이닥친 FBI는, 그에게 3조원 규모의 폰지사기 혐의를 씌우고 그가 개발한 경제전환예측 컴퓨터 프로그램을 압수한다. 정부의 의도는 과연 무엇이었을까? 법정 모독 혐의로 재판도 없이 7년 동안 수감되었던 그는, 오늘날 국가 부채 위기의 도래를 예언하며 2015년 10월 1일 이후 경제위기가 전세계로 번져나갈 것이라고 말한다.

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.

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.

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.

시카고 한인 이민자 가정의 무너진 아메리칸 드림을 다룬 영화로 1993년 시카고에서 발생한 살인 사건의 범인이자 희생자인 앤드류 서의 가족이야기를 담고 있다.

"The Trials of Darryl Hunt" is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Both a social justice story and a personally driven narrative, the film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. With exclusive footage from two decades, the film frames the judicial and emotional response to a chilling crime - and the implications that reverberate from Hunt's conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias in the South and in the American criminal justice system.

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.