Money as Debt Trilogy (2006-2011)

Director: Paul Grignon
Producer: Paul Grignon
Genre: Documentary / Animation
Country: Canada
Language: English /
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A brief and broadly allegorical history of banking.

The Money as Debt trilogy is animated documentary film about the monetary systems practiced through modern banking. The film presents Grignon’s view of the process of money creation in a fractional-reserve banking system and its historical background, and warns of his belief in its subsequent unsustainability.

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Director: Steven Gorelick, Helena Norberg-Hodge, John Page
Producer: Helena Norberg-Hodge
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia
Language: English /
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Voices from Six Continents.

The Economics of Happiness features a calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. While government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power, people around the world are resisting those policies and working to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm: an economics of localization.

The Biggest Scam in the History of Mankind (2013)

Director: Michael Maloney
Producer: Michael Maloney, Dan Rubock
Genre: Documentary / Short / Animation
Country: United States
Language: English /
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The Hidden Secrets of Money.

Mike Maloney is a bestselling author on monetary history and gold & silver investing. His acclaimed video series Hidden Secrets of Money offers a unique perspective on the history of money and its role in today’s economy. This documentary style video aims to enlighten the world about the system that is ultimately responsible for most of the inequality in our society today.

Four Horsemen (2012)

Director: Ross Ashcroft
Producer: Megan Ashcroft, Jason Whitmore, Ross Ashcroft
Genre: Documentary / Feature Length
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English /
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We will never return to “business as usual.”

Rather than condemning bankers, politicians or the media, Four Horsemen feature documentary puts the entire system up for discussion. 23 international thinkers, government advisers and Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain how to establish a moral and just society. The film debate about the system of fractional reserve banking, debt-based economy and political lobbying by banks, which it regards as a serious threat to Western civilization. “It’s Inside Job with bells on.” – Total Film.

10 Point Plan: How does Money work? / 10 Punkte Plan: Wie funktioniert Geld? (2005)

Director: Maximilian von Bock und Polach
Producer: Maximilian von Bock und Polach
Genre: Animation / Short
Country: Germany
Language: German /
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10-point plan for efficient exploitation of a planet with semi-intelligent life forms.

Thesis-animation film by Max Bock about how the money and banking system operates. Money rules the world, but who rules the money? How to enslave mankind? This humorous cartoon in entertaining and vivid way explains that aliens have invented the money on the earth and exploits its inhabitants.

The American Dream (2011)

Director: Tad Lumpkin, Harold Uhl
Producer: Tad Lumpkin
Genre: Animation / Short
Country: United States
Language: English /
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Too big to fail.

The American Dream is a animated film that shows the scams by the most basic elements of government system. How money is created? How banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? What the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects the every single day? The film takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system.

The Corporation (2003)

Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Producer: Bart Simpson, Joel Bakan
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
Language: English /
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The pathological pursuit of profit and power.

The documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to affect specific public functions to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” What the study illustrates is that in the its behavior, this type of “person” typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. The film was nominated for over 26 international awards.

~ Price of Civilization ~

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
~ Lord Acton ~

The Spectre of Hope (2001)

Director: Paul Carlin
Producer: Paula Jaifon, Colin MaCabe, Adam Simon
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

What globalization really looks like and what it is doing to the Earth.

This powerful film brings together art critic John Berger, author of “Ways of Seeing”, and world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado for a discussion about the power of photographic images to inform and inspire. As they peruse Salgado’s book, “Migrations”, a project that took him to 43 countries in order to document the experiences of people pushed from their homes and traditions to cities and their margins – slums and streets and refugee camps, their intimate and wide-ranging conversation, inter-cut with Salgado’s photographs, explores the deeper meanings of Salgado’s images, addressing both their artistic and emotional qualities and their political function as a critique of globalization.

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers (2003)

Director: Erik Gandini
Producer: Johan Söderberg, Erik Gandini
Genre: Documentary / Art House Film
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish / Spanish / English /
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The consumerism totally consumed us.

Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers from 2003 is a film odyssey about the destructive sides of consumer culture and described as “a global doomsday satire set to music”. It used the language of music video, propaganda and commercial advertising as a response to the forces of globalization.

Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth? Surplus’ approach is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective.