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As Goes Janesville

As Goes Janesville follows two years in the lives of laid off workers and local leaders to tell the story of how an auto community brought to the brink reinvents itself amid America’s worst economic crisis since The Great Depression.

371 Productions | 2012 | 87 minutes

Barber Shop - Ep 3: Detroit / USA

The car industry moved away to low-wage countries and over a million citizens left the city: ‘Motown’ became ‘Ghost town’. Barber Shop Detroit tells the story of nostalgia and pride against a background of economic recession.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes

Poor Europe

Investigation beyond social and economic aspects of marginal societies in Europe.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 52 minutes

System Error

Examines the fundamentals of capitalism, and the pathological fantasy of infinite growth on a finite planet.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 96 minutes

We All Fall Down

The rise and fall of America's mortgage system and the damage in the wake of its collapse. With Nouriel Roubini, Richard Sylla and Chris Mayer.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 65 minutes