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.

A crise financeira mundial que aconteceu em 2008, causou a perda de milhões de empregos e casas e mergulhou os Estados Unidos em uma profunda recessão econômica. Matt Damon narra um documentário que fornece uma análise detalhada dos elementos que levaram ao colapso e identifica peças-chave do mundo financeiro e político. O diretor Charles Ferguson realiza uma gama de entrevistas e traça a história dos Estados Unidos para a China para a Islândia e para outros mercados financeiros mundiais.

Na sequência do colapso da economia mundial, em 2008, a classe média americana enfrenta atualmente a maior taxa de desemprego dos últimos 26 anos, tendo atingido os dois dígitos (Out/2009). Decidido a encontrar respostas que todos anseiam, Michael Moore entra em ação pedindo explicações ao poder político e às instituições financeiras. Apontando o dedo ao capitalismo, no seu estilo tão característico.

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.

Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto), Seth Bregman (Penn Badgley) e Will Emerson (Paul Bettany) trabalham no setor de riscos em uma corretora, que está realizando uma série de demissões. Cerca de 80% do setor em que trabalham foi demitido, entre eles o chefe do trio, Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci). Ao pegar o elevador Eric entrega a Peter um pen drive, que contém algo em que estava trabalhando no momento. O alerta para que tomasse cuidado com o conteúdo chama a atenção de Peter, que fica após o horário de trabalho para dar uma olhada no arquivo. Logo ele descobre que trata-se de uma análise da volatilidade da empresa, que indica que há duas semanas ela ultrapassou e muito o limite de risco o qual pode correr. Desta forma a empresa está prestes a falir, o que provoca uma reunião de emergência com diversos setores da empresa, entre eles seu dono, o acionista John Tuld (Jeremy Irons).

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.

Um estudo sobre um dos maiores escândalos corporativos da história dos Estados Unidos, em que executivos da Enron, a 7ª maior companhia do país, fugiram com bilhões de dólares e deixaram acionistas e investidores sem um único tostão. Através de depoimentos e gravações é mostrada como funcionava a hierarquia interna na Enron.

O colapso de uma fábrica de roupas no Bangladesh, em 24 de abril de 2013, fez capa nos principais meios de comunicação do mundo. Quem nunca se deparou com um “Made in Bangladesh” ou outros países subdesenvolvidos nalguma etiqueta de roupas? Para o cineasta americano Andrew Morgan o impacto foi tão grande que acabou por originar a ideia central para o documentário The True Cost.

Discurso definitivo com Noam Chomsky, amplamente considerado como o intelectual vivo mais importante, sobre a característica definidora do nosso tempo - a concentração deliberada da riqueza e do poder nas mãos de uns poucos escolhidos.

Um ácido e divertido retrato da mecânica da sociedade de consumo. Acompanhando a trajetória de um simples tomate, desde a plantação até ser jogado fora, o curta escancara o processo de geração de riqueza e as desigualdades que surgem no meio do caminho.

Quase 100 anos após a sua criação, o poder do Federal Reserve dos EUA nunca foi tão grande. Os mercados e os governos de todo o mundo seguram a respiração na expectativa de cada palavra do presidente do Fed. No entanto, a maioria das pessoas sabe muito pouco sobre o mais poderoso, e menos compreendida, instituição financeira na terra. Narrado por Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing é o primeiro filme a levar o espectador para dentro do Fed e revela o impacto das políticas do Fed - passado, presente e futuro - em nossas vidas. Junte-se a funcionários atuais e antigos do Fed ao debater as críticas, e uns aos outros, sobre as decisões que ajudaram a levar o sistema financeiro mundial à beira do colapso em 2008. E por que pode estar indo para lá novamente.

O filme leva-nos através de uma extensa entrevista com Michael Ruppert, um ex-policia de Los Angeles que se tornou um jornalista freelance. Ele foi pioneiro ao prever a crise financeira atual numa altura em que a maioria dos analistas em Wall Street e Washington a negava.

U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.

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.

A partir da polêmica decisão da Suprema Corte de Justiça americana concluindo que uma corporação, aos olhos da lei, é uma "pessoa", são analisados os poderes das grandes corporações no mundo atual. A exploração da mão-de-obra barata no Terceiro Mundo e a devastação do meio ambiente são alguns dos fatos explorados, que entrevistam presidentes de corporações como a Nike, Shell e IBM, além de Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman e Michael Moore.

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.

Quando o cineasta realizador de documentários Michael Moore fez seu primeiro trabalho importante, Roger and Me, literalmente niguém acredita nele, e não era para menos: o que se propunha era pedir explicacões a Roger Smith, presidente da General Motors, pelo fechamento de onze fábricas na cidade de Flint (cidade natal de Moore, no estado de Michigan) que deixou 30.000 pessoas sem trabalho. O mais flagrante era que as fábricas automomobilisticas deixavam um superávit milionário. Durante dois anos Moore tentou sem êxito entrevistar Roger Smith mas entretanto fez o retrato de um cidade que um dia foi modelo de bem-estar e entrou na miséria por uma decisão da mesma companhia que a levantou.

MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning points with precision. When some big New York bankers asked him to join the club to help them to take over Russia, he refused to join the manipulation. A few days later the FBI stormed his offices accusing him of a 3 billion dollar Ponzi Scheme - an attempt to stop him talking about the real Ponzi Scheme of debts that the US has build up over the years and which he thinks starts to collapse after October 1, 2015, a mayor pi turning point he is predicting.

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.

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.

"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.