1991년, 그 해 가장 더운 날 아침, 로스엔젤레스 시내로 들어가는 고속도로는 교통체증으로 꼼짝도 하지 않고 있다. 직장에서 쫓겨나고 아내와 어린 딸로부터 멀어진 디펜스는 자신의 이름을 따 개인용 번호판을 단 차 안에서 극도로 신경이 날카로워 있다가 파리가 윙윙거리며 날고 있는 모습을 보다가 갑자기 솟아오르는 짜증을 견디지 못하고 차에서 내려 도로를 따라 걷기 시작한다. 그는 끓어오르는 짜증과 무엇엔가에 대한 분노를 가라앉히지 못하고 계속 폭력을 사용해 자기 자신을 파멸시키기 시작한다. 한편 은퇴를 준비하는 경찰 마틴 프랜더게스트는 디펜스의 폭력을 저지시키기 위해 필사적으로 그를 추적하기 시작한다.

미국의 골칫거리로 전락한 국방부의 SOS를 받은 마이클 무어는 펜타곤의 전사가 되어 총성도 석유 약탈도 없이, 다른 나라들의 장점만을 빼앗기로 선언하고 전 세계 침공을 시작한다. 1년에 8주 유급휴가와 13번 월급이 보장된 이탈리아, 프렌치 프라이 대신 미슐랭 3스타급 학교 급식이 나오는 프랑스, 숙제는 구시대적 발상이라는 교육수준 세계 1위의 핀란드, 학자금 대출을 모르는 대학생들이 사는 무상 대학 교육의 슬로베니아, 과거사를 인정하고 반성하도록 가르치는 독일까지. 9개 국을 정복해 나가던 마이클 무어는 진짜 중요한 사실을 깨닫게 되는데...

In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.

빌 클린턴 정부 시절 노동부 장관인 로버트 라이시가 U.C. 버클리에서 강의한 '부와 빈곤(Wealth and Poverty)' 강의를 각색한 다큐멘터리 영화.

A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home. To win back her love and respect, he heads out on a journey to fight against the backward society.

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.

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 billionaires in the United States.

DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hunger of Barbara Flores, an eight-year-old Argentinean girl. Buenos Aires, Washington, the IMF, the World Bank and Davos; corruption and the international bureaucratic lack of interest.

A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.

Ilyas and Brahim work at a television repair shop. When the end of the day arrives, his boss sends them to bring a television to a costumer on the other side of Barcelona, hours before the much-anticipated FC Barcelona's UEFA Champions League final, endangering their friendship and their job in order to get to see the game.

The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our modern system whereby wealthy nations exploit the poor. People living and fighting against poverty answer condemning colonialism and its consequences; land grab, exploitation of natural resources, debt, free markets, demand for corporate profits and the evolution of an economic system in in which 25% of the world's population consumes 85% of its wealth. Featuring Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, authors/activist Susan George, Eric Toussaint, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and more.

Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the wealth of the U.S. Johnson's thesis is that this wealth in the hands of so few people is a danger to our very way of life.

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of us? Award winning documentary maker Bryan Bruce files his special report on what’s gone wrong with our economy and what we can do about it.

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a median age of 82, are beset with a host of life-threatening illnesses, the movie tells how they navigated issues of racism, disparities in the workplace, gender and familial relations.

Jean-Marc Phaneuf, an unmarried electrical engineer, travels to Burundi as a volunteer for the NGO Radio du Monde. He finds a country ruined by grinding poverty, famine, war, disease and appalling social inequality. At the same time, he meets a joyful, brave people hungry for happiness, knowledge and human dignity. The camera that becomes his personal diary also helps Jean-Marc expose the shaky, ineffective workings of NGOs. His investigations turn up a few praiseworthy examples of international cooperation, but on the whole he finds himself drawn to a terrible, inescapable conclusion: humanitarian aid is a utopian mirage. After falling victim to an attack and losing whatever ideals he still had, Jean-Marc becomes entangled in an impossible relationship. He is ultimately forced to leave Africa in disgrace.

대기업이 사회의식을 갖춘 브랜드 이미지로 교묘하게 탈바꿈하면서 사회를 장악하는 행태를 정당화하는 과정을 폭로한다. 영화는 다보스포럼에 모인 기업 엘리트들과 기후변화, 불평등 심화 문제를 거쳐 극우파 지도자들의 부흥, 코로나 19, 인종 차별 문제에 이르기까지, 기업들이 행사하는 파괴적인 권력을 낱낱이 파헤친다. 한편 영화는 이러한 힘에 맞서 사회 정의와 환경 문제를 위해 거리로 나서는 사람들이 늘어남에 따라 거대한 저항의 물결이 생겨날 수 있다는 점 역시 시사한다. (서울환경영화제)

The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when you awake, what can you say about poverty now? There are still very poor people, to be sure, but the new poverty has more to do with inequality...