De ouder wordende nieuwslezer Howard Beale van UBS wordt wegens tegenvallende kijkcijfers ontslagen. Hij reageert hierop door live op tv te verklaren on-air zelfmoord te zullen plegen. Hierdoor wordt Beale een grote tv-bekendheid, iets dat de met problemen kampende zender wel kan gebruiken.
Verhaal over drie Poolse arbeiders met een verschillende sociale, culturele en etnische achtergrond. In tegenstelling tot veel van hun collega's in de realiteit kunnen zij wel goed met elkaar overweg en samenwerken. Ze richten een textielfabriek op met als beginselen gelijkwaardigheid, vertrouwen en respect. Tegelijk met vooruitgang komt echter ook het brengen van offers.
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.
Documentary film about the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of our dependence on foreign supplies of Oil. What are the causes that led from America turning from a leading exporter of oil to the world's largest importer?
Sammy is a 14 year old girl who makes YouTube videos. Robby just moved to New York City after college. Jerry is a single 34 year old network administrator living in the suburbs. Through their fragmented experiences, Consumers explores the dialectical problematics of the contemporary experience.
Injectable anti-inflammatories, anticoagulants, anti-infectives, anticancer drugs and even cotton wools are in short supply. Like many others in France, the pharmacy at Rennes hospital is constantly on the edge. Over the past two decades, shortages of medicines and health products have increased twentyfold in Europe. With almost all laboratories affected, practitioners and health establishments are forced to juggle with quotas to make up for shortages. Some even have to prioritise patients in terms of access to treatments, according to scales established by the laboratories. In the Netherlands, hospital pharmacies have resigned themselves to manufacturing the molecules they lack.
Soya's satirist take on variations of Danes, who willingly or unwillingly came to deal with German troops during the five year Second World War occupation.