Main content

Browse Films

Showing 1 - 10 of 118 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Business


Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market

Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade. (Episode 1 of the Capitalism series)

Icarus Films | 2014 | 53 minutes

Aiming High

Focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 26 minutes

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales

Abigail Disney looks at the Disney family legacy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 87 minutes

Anais Goes to War

A young woman's struggle to forge her own path and start a farm.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 46 minutes

Art and Oligarchs

Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 52 minutes

Backfired

Investigates the largest auto scam in the world, tracing VW's deliberate installation of defeat devices in their diesel cars to circumvent California and US vehicle emissions standards.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 61 minutes

Bank Job

Artist/filmmaker team Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell investigate how debt is created in our economy, and devise a clever plan to purchase and destroy over $1 million of private debt.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 87 minutes

Banking Nature

By assigning financial value to elements of nature, can markets save the planet?

Icarus Films | 2014 | 90 minutes

Barcelona or Die

Madou, a Senegalese fisherman, risks his life on an illegal boat to Europe.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 52 minutes

Black Market

The sale of bear paws, crocodile hearts, and other rare animal parts form the world's third-largest illegal market. Black Market explores the human passions and ancient beliefs that drive the trade and threaten its most endangered species.

MediaStorm | 2007 | 11 minutes