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Koch Brothers Exposed (2012)

13 Jul

Director: Robert Greenwald

Synopsis: Koch Brothers Exposed is a hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst. This full-length documentary film on Charles and David Koch—two of the world’s richest and most powerful men—is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Rethink Afghanistan). The billionaire brothers bankroll a vast network of organizations that work to undermine the interests of the 99% on issues ranging from Social Security to the environment to civil rights. This film uncovers the Kochs’ corruption—and points the way to how Americans can reclaim their democracy.

Contact: http://www.kochbrothersexposed.com/

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Posted by on July 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Politics

 

The Pipe (2010)

13 Jul

80m; Ireland

Director: Risteard Ó Domhnaill

Synopsis: “The most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland, the rights of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing grounds, has come in direct conflict with one of the worlds most powerful oil companies. When the citizens look to their state to protect their rights, they find that the state has put Shell’s right to lay a pipeline over their own.

The Pipe is a story of a community tragically divided, and how they deal with a pipe that could bring economic prosperity or destruction of a way of life shared for generations.”

Contact: http://www.thepipethefilm.com/

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Posted by on July 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Organizing

 

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The Yes Men (2003)

13 Jun

80m; U.S.
Director: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price

Synopsis (IMDB): A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. The film begins when two members of The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, set up a website that mimics the World Trade Organization’s–and it’s mistaken for the real thing. They play along with the ruse and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives. Delighted to represent the organization they politically oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock unwitting audiences with darkly comic satire that highlights the worst aspects of global free trade

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Finance, Global Economy

 

Wal-Mar Nation (2007)

13 Jun

61m; Canada

Director: Andrew Munger

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary

 

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)

13 Jun

95m; U.S.

Director: Robert Greenwald

Synopsis: A look at the impact of the retail giant on local communities.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary

 

Wall Street (1987)

13 Jun

124m; U.S.

Director: Oliver Stone

Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis (IMDB): Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980’s New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko. Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that “Greed is Good”. Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of “yuppies”, shady business deals, the “good life”, fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father (a good union man) and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Drama, Finance

 

We ‘re Not Just Fighting For Our Own Skins (2007)

13 Jun

81m; Germany

Director: Holger Wayman

Synopsis: In May 2005, the Bosch-Siemens workers in Berlin who produce Siemens household appliances were threatened with the closure of their factory and the loss of 600 jobs.

Contact: http://www.videowerkstatt.de/ autofocus@videowerkstatt.de Holger Wayman: howeg@hotmail.de

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Manufacturing, Unemployment-Wages

 

We All Fall Down

13 Jun

65m; U.S.

Director: Gary Gasgarth

Synopsis: This timely and informative documentary chronicles the history of America’s mortgage finance system, from its origins in the 1930s, when the federal government first made available long-term, fixed-rate loans to new American homeowners, to its current state of crisis, after an excess of risky mortgage financing led to the system’s collapse, which in turn triggered a wider economic recession.

Contact: http://icarusfilms.com/new2009/fall.html lori@icarusfilms.com Sending screener

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Finance

 

We Feed the World (2005)

13 Jun

96m; U.S.

Director: Erwin Wagenhofer

Synopsis: Every day in Vienna the amount of unsold bread sent back to be disposed of is enough to supply Austria’s second-largest city, Graz. Around 350,000 hectares of agricultural land, above all in Latin America, are dedicated to the cultivation of soybeans to feed Austria’s livestock while one quarter of the local population starves. Every European eats ten kilograms a year of artificially irrigated greenhouse vegetables from southern Spain, with water shortages the result. This documentary about food and globalization traces the origins of the food we eat, depicting fishermen and farmers, long-distance truckers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash – contrasting scarcity amid plenty. An insight into the production of our food, the film answers the question of what world hunger has to do with us. Interviewed are not only fishermen, farmers, agronomists, biologists and the UN’s Jean Ziegler, but also the director of production at Pioneer, the world’s largest seed company, as well as Peter Brabeck, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé International, the largest food company in the world. Erwin Wagenhofer received the 2006 Fipresci Award for We Feed the World at the Motovun Film Festival (Croatia). Other films include Agnes (short, 2002) and his latest documentary, Let’s Make Money (2008).

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Global Economy

 

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West Virginia’s Underground Economy (2006)

13 Jun

30m; U.S.

Synopsis: A short film documenting West Virginian companies importing employees from out of the state, paying cash to employees to avoid taxes, and using other underhanded tactics . Also seventeen TV commercials about the WV Jobs Act, 40-hour workweek, outsourcing, clean water, business development and other themes.

Contact: Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation- A Division of the West Virginia State Building and Construction Trades Council – AFL-CIO tttp://www.actwv.org/commercials.mx. Commercials about unfair practices are at Access: http://actwvvideo.merlix.com/

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary

 

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