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Running time. 86 minutes. Country. Canada. Languages. English. Spanish. Albanian. Payback is a 2012 documentary film from Jennifer Baichwal based on Margaret Atwood 's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, which investigates the concept of debt in societies across the world (and not only on a monetary level).
April 30, 2011. ( 2011-04-30) Running time. 93 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Battle for Brooklyn is a 2011 documentary that follows the stories of a Brooklyn neighborhood as the residents fight to save their homes from being destroyed by an impending real estate project.
Life and Debt is a 2001 United States documentary film directed by Stephanie Black about the economic and social situation in Jamaica after globalization, specifically the impact of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank's policies. It starts with the essay "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid. The IMF loans were conditional on ...
Money as Debt is a 2006 animated documentary film by Canadian artist [1] and filmmaker Paul Grignon [2] about the monetary systems practised through modern banking. [3] The film presents Grignon's view of the process of money creation by banks and its historical background, and warns of his belief in its subsequent unsustainability.
Language. Italian. Budget. €2,000,000 (estimated) [2] Forgive Us Our Debts ( Italian: Rimetti a noi i nostri debiti) is a 2018 Italian drama film about a man struggling under the crushing weight of debt who has to work as a debt collector to pay off his creditors. The film was released on May 4, 2018, by Netflix. [4]
2000. Running time. 60 minutes. Language. English. Sixteen Decisions is a documentary film directed and produced by Gayle Ferraro, exploring the impact of the Grameen Bank on impoverished women in Bangladesh. The bank provides micro loans of about $60 each to the poor, as well as promoting a social charter that gave the film its title.
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006) is an independent feature-length documentary film and (2007) book that chronicles abusive practices in the credit card industry. Written and directed by James Scurlock, the film and book use interviews with creditors, debtors, academics, and others to illustrate its ...
Debtocracy argues Greek politicians encouraged too much borrowing and corruption. The documentary praises Ecuador's decision to unilaterally default on part of its sovereign debt, on grounds of social justice. The solution suggested for the Greek crisis is the formation of a committee for the analysis of the debt in a similar way that Ecuador did.