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  1. La gran apuesta 2015

    Película

    Cuando cuatro tipos fuera del sistema descubren que los grandes bancos, los medios de comunicación y el gobierno se niegan a reconocer el colapso de la economía, tienen una idea: 'La Gran Apuesta'… pero sus inversiones de riesgo les conducen al lado oscuro de la banca moderna, donde deben poner en duda todo y a todos...

    Las caras de La gran apuesta

    • Marginados que vieron venir la crisis de 2008
    • Famosos que explican las finanzas
    • Apostar contra la economía

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta una comedia rápida y furiosa sobre un desastre real.
    • te gustan los personajes afilados y cínicos.
    • te gusta entender cómo pasó algo de verdad.

    Mala para ti si

    • te aburren los bancos y las hipotecas. Toda la película trata de dinero.
    • necesitas algo de esperanza. Los banqueros salen impunes y millones de personas pierden su casa.

    Temas: la codicia · la verdad · los sistemas

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  2. Inside Job 2010

    Documentary

    A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

    The sides of Inside Job

    • The 2008 financial crisis, from Iceland to Wall Street
    • Bankers, regulators and economists in front of the camera
    • Professors who can't answer a simple question

    Good for you if

    • you want to know who made money from the crash and who paid.
    • you like a case built with real figures, real names and real interviews.
    • you like interviews where the person in the chair starts to squirm.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't want to follow derivatives and credit default swaps for an evening.
    • you want a reassuring ending. Here almost nobody goes to jail.

    About: greed · corruption · the economy

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  3. The Yes Men 2003

    Documentary

    A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.

    The sides of The Yes Men

    • Two pranksters posing as the WTO
    • Fake speeches at business conferences
    • Audiences who never catch on

    Good for you if

    • you like watching a straight face hold through an absurd speech.
    • you like real pranks played on real conference rooms.
    • you like seeing the global economy mocked to its face.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't laugh at a fake WTO speech about recycling hamburgers for the Third World.
    • you can't stand a film made mostly of speeches.

    About: activism · globalization · satire

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  4. THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.

    The sides of The Yes Men Fix the World

    • A fake Dow Chemical spokesman on the BBC
    • Two pranksters in cheap suits
    • Hoaxes at big business conferences

    Good for you if

    • you like executives applauding absurd ideas with a straight face.
    • you like seeing big corporations caught off guard.
    • you like real pranks pulled on real conferences and newsrooms.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at films with a message to sell.
    • you can't laugh at a hoax built on the Bhopal disaster.

    About: activism · corporate power · truth

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  5. Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

    The sides of This Film Is Not Yet Rated

    • The board that rates American films
    • A private investigator tailing the raters
    • Directors on the cuts they were asked to make

    Good for you if

    • you want to know how films get their ratings in America.
    • you like a private investigator unmasking the secret raters.
    • you like an investigation with a playful, cheeky tone.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see the sex scenes shown as examples.
    • you'd rather follow a story than a case file.

    About: censorship · secrecy · double standards

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  6. With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

    The sides of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

    • Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
    • A blood test machine that never worked
    • A ten billion dollar company that collapsed

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of Theranos and its blood test.
    • you like watching hype and investors carry a company to ten billion dollars.
    • you want to understand how Elizabeth Holmes convinced so many people.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more than interviews and boardroom footage.
    • you want surprises, and you already know how Theranos ended.

    About: fraud · ambition · hype

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  7. The Great Hack 2019

    Documentary

    Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

    The sides of The Great Hack

    • Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data
    • A former insider who turns whistleblower
    • Brexit and the 2016 US election

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
    • you like stories about who controls elections and how.
    • you like a documentary that plays like a political thriller.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope, not a worrying look at your own data.
    • you lose track when a film follows Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll and a journalist all at once.

    About: privacy · democracy · manipulation

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  8. The Corporation 2003

    Documentary

    Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

    The sides of The Corporation

    • The corporation treated as a legal person
    • A psychiatric checklist applied to big business
    • Interviews with CEOs, activists and economists

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how companies came to hold so much power.
    • you like real case studies more than abstract theory.
    • you enjoy a long argument built from dozens of interviews.

    Bad for you if

    • nearly two and a half hours of documentary is too much for you.
    • you want striking images, and this is built from interviews and archive footage.

    About: capitalism · democracy · responsibility

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  9. Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.

    The sides of How to Make Money Selling Drugs

    • Ten steps from street dealer to kingpin
    • Former dealers, police and prison staff
    • The war on drugs and who profits from it

    Good for you if

    • you're curious how a drug business actually runs.
    • you want to see who wins from strict drug laws.
    • you want former dealers telling their own stories to the camera.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch addiction and prison up close.
    • you lose track when dozens of dealers, guards and officials take turns talking.

    About: drugs · money · the justice system

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  10. The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.

    The sides of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

    • Eight former members of the Church of Scientology
    • How a science fiction writer founded a religion
    • Testimony about abuse inside the church

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing people explain how they came to believe, and how they left.
    • you want to know how an organisation keeps control of its members.
    • you like long testimonies where people choose every word.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't listen to accounts of psychological abuse and broken families.
    • you lose track when names pile up. Eight former members, two church leaders and a few film stars come and go.

    About: belief · control · leaving

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  11. Fed Up 2014

    Documentary

    Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.

    The sides of Fed Up

    • Sugar in American food
    • Teenagers trying to lose weight
    • The food industry and Washington

    Good for you if

    • you want to know what is really in the food on your plate.
    • you like seeing how lobbies shape what the government tells you to eat.
    • you care about the kids and parents fighting their weight at home.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at a documentary on a mission.
    • you want a light evening, and this may change how you look at your fridge.

    About: health · industry · childhood

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  12. Investigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of each other.

    The sides of Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

    • Two 737 MAX crashes months apart
    • Families of the victims
    • Engineers and pilots on the record

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what led to two real crashes.
    • you like seeing how money can win over safety inside a company.
    • you want the technical failures explained clearly.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch grieving families talk about the people they lost.
    • you need some hope by the end. The families are still waiting for justice.

    About: profit · accountability · grief

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  13. Betting on Zero 2016

    Documentary

    Controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman is on a crusade to expose global nutritional giant Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history while Herbalife execs claim Ackman is a market manipulator out to bankrupt them and make a killing off his billion dollar short.

    The sides of Betting on Zero

    • Bill Ackman's billion dollar bet against Herbalife
    • Families who lost their savings
    • A fight over what a pyramid scheme is

    Good for you if

    • you like watching billionaires fight over money and influence.
    • you want the real Wall Street battle over Herbalife.
    • you like a bet where every share price move counts.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch families losing everything they saved.
    • you want something light, and this stays serious.

    About: greed · the American dream · finance

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  14. A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

    The sides of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

    • Enron's executives and their fake profits
    • Traders and the California blackouts
    • Employees who lost their savings

    Good for you if

    • you like watching executives build a giant on numbers that weren't real.
    • you want to understand how Enron fell in 2001.
    • you can laugh grimly at traders joking on tape about California's blackouts.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more than charts, tapes and interviews.
    • you need some hope, and thousands of employees lose everything here.

    About: greed · deception · money

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  15. Muckraking filmmaker Morgan Spurlock reignites his battle with the food industry — this time from behind the register — as he opens his own fast food restaurant.

    The sides of Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!

    • Morgan Spurlock opening a chicken restaurant
    • Chicken farmers in debt to big companies
    • Fast food marketing taken apart

    Good for you if

    • you like Morgan Spurlock's jokey, stunt-driven style.
    • you want to know where a fast food chicken really comes from.
    • you like seeing how big food companies squeeze farmers.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at a filmmaker on a crusade.
    • you'd rather not think about what's on your plate. The film takes you inside crowded chicken houses.

    About: fast food · marketing · farming

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  16. Takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater, then moves to Anonymous' raucous beginnings on the website 4chan. Through interviews with current members, people recently returned from prison or facing trial, writers, academics, activists and major players in various "raids," the documentary traces Anonymous’ evolution from merry pranksters to a full-blown movement with a global reach, the most transformative civil disobedience of our time.

    The sides of We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

    • Anonymous, born on 4chan
    • Pranks that turned into protest
    • Hackers back from prison telling their side

    Good for you if

    • you want the hackers themselves to tell their story.
    • you like ordinary people taking on governments and corporations.
    • you're curious where activism ends and crime begins.

    Bad for you if

    • you want hacking played like a thriller, not interviews.
    • you lose track among many groups, raids and voices.

    About: civil disobedience · the internet · freedom of speech

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  17. 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.

    The sides of Requiem for the American Dream

    • Noam Chomsky in long interviews
    • Ten principles of wealth and power
    • The decline of the American middle class

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how money shapes American politics.
    • you like Chomsky looking back on decades of activism.
    • you like a dense argument told plainly in seventy-three minutes.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope when a film looks at democracy.
    • you want images, not one man talking.

    About: inequality · democracy · wealth

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  18. Fahrenheit 11/9 2018

    Documentary

    Michael Moore's provocative documentary explores the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How did we get here, and how do we get out.

    The sides of Fahrenheit 11/9

    • Michael Moore on the 2016 election
    • The Flint water crisis
    • Students marching after the Parkland shooting

    Good for you if

    • you want the Flint water crisis told by the people who lived it.
    • you like Michael Moore asking how Donald Trump came to power.
    • you like Michael Moore's sarcastic stunts.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at Michael Moore's angry, heartfelt pleas to camera.
    • you can't watch the Flint water crisis and a school shooting up close.

    About: democracy · protest · public health

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  19. Zeitgeist: Addendum 2008

    Documentary

    Director Peter Joseph examines examples of economic subjugation and offers solutions based on alignment with nature.

    The sides of Zeitgeist: Addendum

    • The debt system behind modern money
    • Economic hit men in Latin America
    • A plan for an economy without money

    Good for you if

    • you like asking who really controls money and banks.
    • you want to hear John Perkins tell how he worked as an economic hit man.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at a two-hour call to change the whole world.
    • you need every claim to hold up, and this one draws on conspiracy theories.

    About: money · power · debt · utopia

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  20. A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.

    The sides of POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

    • Morgan Spurlock selling his own film to sponsors
    • A documentary paid for by product placement
    • Meetings with real brand executives

    Good for you if

    • you like a joke that pays for itself, a film about ads made entirely with ads.
    • you want to see real marketing meetings from the inside.
    • you like learning how brands buy their way onto your screen.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a documentary with real stakes and suspense.
    • you want an investigation that exposes someone. Spurlock jokes along with the brands he meets.

    About: advertising · money · media

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