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Capitalism

2014 · 320 min

A dense, globe-trotting lecture that asks you to think hard about money, markets, and the ideas behind them.

Directed by
Ilan Ziv
Genres
Documentary
Overview
CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world. Blending interviews with some of the world’s great historians, economists, anthropologists, and social critics with on-the-ground footage shot in twenty-two countries, CAPITALISM questions the myth of the unfettered free market, explores the nature of debt and commodities, and retraces some of the great economic debates of the last 200 years. The series features some of the world’s top economists, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists, including Thomas Piketty, Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Nicholas Phillipson, Kari Polanyi Levitt, David Graeber, and Abraham Rotstein. - icarusfilms.com

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Directed by
Ilan Ziv
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • power
  • politics
  • greed
  • work
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism9
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity8
Emotional weight5

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Ilan Ziv
Runtime
320 min
Country
France, Canada
Languages
Mandarin, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew

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