King Corn (2007), State of the Union (2019), What Is Democracy? (2018), The Big Scary "S" Word (2020), Mattress Men (2016), The Big Short (2015), This Is Congo (2017), Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Economy movies.
Storyline: After the 2008 financial crisis that nearly destroyed the world economy, none of the American financial institutions faced prosecutions for their shady dealings that contributed to this debacle, except one. Abacus Federal Savings Bank, a small Chinese-American bank that catered to the neglected market of their community, was indicted on fraud charges and loan falsifications. As the bank disputed these accusations, many in the mainstream news media noticed that far larger competitors appeared to have committed similar misdeeds without legal consequence; likely because they were "too big to fail." This film explores the history of Abacus and its legal battle for survival against this hypocritical, and likely racist, application of the law that seemed to determined to punish them as a scapegoat for crimes that much larger felons deserve to face.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: documentary, finance, financial crisis, legal, new york, family business, justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.—Barry Manhampton
Plot Keywords: drama, social, family, poverty, life, realism, rural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this final installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda series, the subject focuses on the United States of America. We learn of its good qualities and the things worth fighting for. With that established, we learn of the history of the United States' population shifting opinion towards siding with the Allies against the Axis until the attack on Pearl Harbour which brought America into full scale involvement in the war.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, history, america, war, propaganda, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: From red light districts to lush rain-forests, 'Black Mother' is a loving and lyrical ode to Jamaica and its people, a visual poem that is at once deeply felt love letter and ecstatic street-corner prayer.
Plot Keywords: documentary, experimental film, culture, religion, motherhood, identity, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, american, classic, black and white, historical, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For centuries, Bordeaux has assumed a mythical status in the world of fine wine as a leitmotif of wealth, power and influence, but its prosperity has always been linked to the capricious nature of markets and the shifting fortunes of global economies. Now change is coming to Bordeaux, with traditional customers like the US and the UK falling away, as China's new rich push prices to stratospheric levels. The demand is unprecedented, but the product is finite and this new client wants it all. Will the China market be the bubble that never bursts or the biggest threat yet to Bordeaux's centuries old reputation?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, china, wealthy, culture, globalization, france, economy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A computer programmer's active interest in Bitcoin helps illustrate the social and political impact of the world's first global and open-source digital currency.
Plot Keywords: technology, economy, innovation, future, risk, legal, security ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Everyone is gathering at Lane's place for the weekend, and everyone's in love. Unfortunately, each beloved loves somebody else, and no one seems to realize it.—Cleo <frede005@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, history, biography, war, political, military, revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company's interests. " The characters and the institution portrayed in the story are not actual but the product of fiction. The oil business was chosen because light has ever been symbolic of progress."—Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, american, 1930s, business, china ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Six years later, John, Helen and the two children are happy in their home, but the two mother-in-laws are still bickering. When Lizzy inadvertently starts a run on the bank, it closes when Maggie learns that John has done what she had told him never to do - used the bank bonds for a get rich quick scheme. To gain some money for the depositors, Maggie and John sell everything that they have and move in with Lizzy, who hounds them every day. Their only hope for a normal life is to get the bonds back from the crooks that have them.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, comedy, music, musical, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.
Plot Keywords: war, family, drama, history, romance, american civil war, family business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mr. Topaze ('Peter Sellers') is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that if what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, money, 1960s, satire, greed, black comedy, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary chronicles the quick rise and precipitous crash-and-burn of Kozmo.com, the brainchild of investment bankers and former college roommates Joseph Park and Yong Kang. By interviewing the founders as well as the company's day-to-day workers, the film paints a comprehensive portrait of the failed venture, which started as an online convenience store with a single warehouse in 1997. Yet Kozmo.com is also juxtaposed with the larger economic event of the time -- the dot-com bust.
Plot Keywords: documentary, technology, internet, failure, dream, reality, risk ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: HBO Original Documentary that shows how humans are becoming more and more dependent on robots nowadays. This film also features several points of view from engineers, journalists, and philosophers who talk about different situations where robots have caused the death of humans, and how they represent a threat to society.
Plot Keywords: documentary, robots, artificial intelligence, technology, ethics, future, social impact ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following an act of violence committed by her own brother, Emma escapes with her mother to wild, open country, where they find refuge in an isolated retreat in the shadow of a nuclear power station.
Plot Keywords: documentary, energy, environment, technology, history, politics, society ...
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