Ever been astounded by the number of coffee shops on any given high street? As a society we seem to have acquired an insatiable thrist for coffee in all its wonderful forms with many coffee chains making obscene amounts of money from our caffeine addiction. Multinational coffee companies such as Starbucks now rule our highstreets [...]
How International Bankers Gained Control of America.
In America’s earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation. IN DEBT WE TRUST shows [...]
From the Films official website: “Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo (“The Rose,” “Trading Places”) set out on a journey to find the evidence. This film which is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil [...]
McLibel is a documentary movie which tells the story of political activists, Helen Steel and Dave Morris who were taken to court by the McDonalds fast food chain for claims they had made about the company. The couple had accused McDonalds of paying low wages for staff, poor treatment of animals, environmental damage and advertising [...]
A fascinating documentary looking at the increasing power of large global businesses and the impact this is having on society.
This chilling documentary film examines the relationship between the media, corporate America, and government. In a country where the ‘top 1% control 90% of the wealth’, the film argues that the media system is nothing but a ‘subsidiary of corporate America.
As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill.
A very well made documentary film which combines traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework showing how international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade affect the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact. Focusing on the lives of ordinary workers & farmers on the island of Jamaica, this film contends that [...]
Through a series of interviews, this film argues that the bizarre events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and the equally bizarre prosecution of the so-called “war on terror”, can be more credibly understood in the wider context of an imminent divergence between the supply and demand of global oil.