Economics Movies

Set in 20th Century Japan the documentary explores the role and power of Central Banks and how they can be used to change a country's economic...

After starting a painting business right before the housing crash, a filmmaker drives over 35,000 miles to track down the people who saw it coming...

Edward de Bono literally sketches out the future in a 90 minute lecture filmed in Copenhagen. He explains 2040 as seen by someone frozen...

If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. This address boasts the highest number of...

1997 revisits South Korea's tumultuous late 1990s through documents obtained from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the civic organization The...

“I don’t think most people really understood that they were in a casino” says award-winning financial reporter Mark Pittman....

This documentary analyses the perverse monetary policies initiated before the euro inception. It focuses on the case of Spain and the terrible...

Alexis Conran investigates whether loyalty cards save consumers money when shopping, looking into the possibility that supermarkets could be...

When the world’s financial bubble blew, the solution was to lower interest rates and pump trillions of dollars into the sick banking system....

An examination of the causes of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, studying how decades of social changes have influenced financial...

Spanning over 2,000 years, this study looks at the complex relationship between Jewish and Catholic thought from a social and historical perspective....

It is well known in economics academia that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 is loaded with powerful symbols of monetary...

Thursday, October 24 : the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out. Fueled by the...

The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg, takes an intriguing, two-part look at Smith and the evolution and relevance of his...

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being...

"Where is my money?" - the question that everyone is sure to have asked themselves at some point is the starting point for filmmaker Philipp Enders'...

Once heralded as the spirit of American manufacturing, music, and democracy, Detroit kicked its fiscal can down the road for decades plummeting into...

An eye-opening look at budgetary disclosure practices of local US government agencies. Typically referred to as the 'budget' or 'budget report', a...

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has oscillated between dictatorship and democracy for...

Ripped Off: Madoff and the Scamming of America tells Madoff's story superbly, although it was put together before Madoff was sentenced to 150 years...