Best "globalization" Movies of All Time

32 movies found (page 1/2):

Syriana(2005)

FSK: 12+ years

3.2/5 (with 579 votes)

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

Directed by Stephen Gaghan - With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Amr Waked, Chris Cooper, Amanda Peet, ...

Inside Job(2010)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 49min | Documentary

3.9/5 (with 403 votes)

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.

Directed by Charles Ferguson - With Matt Damon

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The True Cost(2015)

1h 32min | Documentary, Drama

3.8/5 (with 101 votes)

Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.

Directed by Andrew Morgan - With Vandana Shiva, Stella McCartney, Rick Ridgeway, Safia Minney, Mu Sochua

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At War(2018)

1h 45min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 69 votes)

After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.

Directed by Stéphane Brizé - With Vincent Lindon

Angry Inuk(2016)

1h 25min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humour and reason to confront aggressive animal rights vitriol and defend their traditional hunting practices. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins her fellow Inuit activists as they challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.

Directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

The Yes Men(2003)

1h 20min | Comedy, Documentary

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

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.

Directed by Chris Smith

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The Take(2004)

1h 27min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.

Directed by Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein - With Bill Clinton, Gustavo Cordera, Néstor Kirchner, Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, Carlos Menem, ...

Absolut(2005)

1h 34min | Thriller

3.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Two guys against globalization want to plant a virus in the network of a finance corporation. On the day of the attack Alex has an accident and cannot remember anything.

Directed by Romed Wyder - With Vincent Bonillo

The Divide(2015)

1h 18min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in modern day US and UK - where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. By plotting these tales together, we uncover how virtually every aspect of our lives is controlled by one factor: the size of the gap between rich and poor.The film is inspired by "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

Directed by Katharine Round

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We Feed the World(2005)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 36min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

A documentary that exposes the shocking truths behind industrial food production and food wastage, focusing on fishing, livestock and crop farming. A must-see for anyone interested in the true cost of the food on their plate.

Directed by Erwin Wagenhofer - With Jean Ziegler

Heartland(1989)

1h 38min | Drama, TV Movie

This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd. The community launches a campaign against the quotas, but Jack takes the law into his own hands.

The Red House(2013)

1h 15min

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Is home the place you are from, or what you carry inside you wherever you go? The Red House is a story about the endurance of love in the face of cultural upheaval, environmental neglect, and the universal process of aging. Lee and Jia are a couple in their sixties still deeply in love after twenty years. But when Jia has to return to her homeland to care for her aging parents, the physical traces of their years together are packed away. Their future together suddenly seems fragile. Jia finds the ancient city of her memories replaced by a disposable, fast-paced lifestyle. On his arrival Lee also feels lost in this foreign land. As the family crisis escalates, the couple strive to reconcile the uneasy balance of their love.

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Laboratory Greece(2019)

2h 45min | Documentary, History

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts.

A Meeting with Milton Santos(2007)

1h 29min | Documentary

4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the importance of respecting difference and his belief that an alternative globalisation model could wholly enfranchise all citizens of the world. An illustrious presence in 20th century social sciences, the man dubbed as ‘geography’s philosopher’ eloquently elucidates a developing world perspective on the global age.

Spain: The First Globalization(2021)

1h 50min | Documentary, History

4.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.

Directed by José Luis López-Linares - With Elvira Roca Barea, Marcelo Gullo, María Ángeles Pérez Samper, María del Carmen Iglesias Cano, Carlos Martínez Shaw, Manuel Lucena Giraldo, ...

Love, Women and Flowers(1988)

58min | Documentary

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

Position Among the Stars(2011)

1h 49min | Documentary, History

4.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari and her sons Bakti and Dwi.

Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich

Arise(2013)

1h 18min | Documentary

A film that captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth, weaves together poetry, music, art, and stunning scenery to create a hopeful and collective story that inspires us to work for the earth. The list of impassioned, indefatigable female environmental activists featured in this film includes Winona LaDuke, a Native American who has championed the use of solar and wind power on reservations; Theo Colborn, head of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, who fights against toxic chemicals in our water supplies; Beverly Grant, who’s created a vibrant farmer’s market in a black neighborhood of Denver, Colo.; Dana Miller, who spearheads an “urban agriculture movement” in the same city; and Vandana Shiva, who champions organic farming in India.

China Blue(2005)

1h 26min | Documentary

2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

"China Blue" is an engrossing documentary that tells the story of 3 teenage girls who leave their rural homes in China to come work for a factory that makes blue jeans.

Directed by Micha X. Peled

The Fourth Dimension(2001)

1h 27min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

An elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Minh-ha deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present. She explains, "Shown in their widespread functions and manifestations, including more evident loci such as festivals, religious rite and theatrical performance, 'rituals' involve not only the regularity in the structure of everyday life, but also the dynamic agents in the world of meaning." With its lush imagery, Minh-ha's Japan is viewed through mobile frames, with doors and windows sliding shut, revealing new vistas as it blocks out the old light.

Shadow Government(2009)

1h 29min | Documentary

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

John Wilson wakes up, gets ready for his day and heads to work. He has no idea that he's being watched, tracked and studied. Is he a threat to national security? Is he a terrorist or a criminal? No, he's an ordinary American citizen. Like everyone else, John's rights and freedoms have been systematically destroyed - all in the name of security and convenience. Is it about peace and unity? Or is it about ultimate global power? What if there were hidden forces with no ties to democracy or constitutional rights in power? What if new laws, media propaganda and Secret Societies labeled John a danger to society? And what if all this set the stage for a Biblically prophesied global government run by the Antichrist?

United We Fall(2010)

2h 4min | Documentary

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

United We Fall is a documentary about a North American Union that is being developed right now between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. For years this topic has been debated in the news and in political circles as being a possible future for North America. In recent years, the mood has shifted and a rift is developing between those who want a deeply integrated North American community, and those who wish to retain their national sovereignty. This film takes a look at both sides of the issue by interviewing insiders such as members of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg group, the Trilateral Commission and the Council On Foreign Relations and also journalists and activists such as Luke Rudkowski, Alex Jones and producer Dan Dicks who have been at the heart of this heated debate.

What's Up Connection(1990)

2h | Comedy, Drama

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickpocket. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, he and his family of counterfeiters discover that a multinational conglomerate led by a ruthless Japanese developer has found the village, and is determined to raze it to build the new center of world trade.

Mother(2020)

1h 22min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as Maya, a new patient, is on her way from Switzerland.

Jeepney(2013)

1h | History, Documentary

JEEPNEY visualizes the richly diverse cultural and social climate of the Philippines through its most popular form of mass transportation: vividly decorated ex-WWII military jeeps. The film follows jeepney artists, drivers, and passengers, whose stories take place amidst nationwide protest against oil price hikes that pressure drivers to work overseas to earn a living, far from their homes for years at a time. Lavishly shot and cut to the rhythm of the streets, JEEPNEY provides an enticing vehicle through which the rippling effects of globalization can be felt.

What Are You Looking For(2002)

1h 39min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.

The Manifesto: The Globalist Agenda and You(2010)

1h 41min | Thriller, Crime

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Determined to educate people about how the global elite are controlling the world, a lone man documents his war against the powers that be.

Final Warning(1995)

52min | Documentary

Host Grant Jeffrey discusses how technology and government activities are changing the way our information is handled. How is this shaping our lives?

Interferències(2011)

1h 14min

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The Real Adam Smith: Ideas That Changed The World(2023)

56min | Documentary

The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg, takes an intriguing, two-part look at Smith and the evolution and relevance of his ideas today, both economic and ethical. It’s difficult to imagine that a man who lived with horse drawn carriages and sailing ships would foresee our massive 21st century global market exchange, much less the relationship between markets and morality. But Adam Smith was no ordinary 18th century figure. Considered the “father of modern economics,” Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. The revolutionary ideas he penned in The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, changed the world. Norberg explores Smith’s insights regarding free trade and the nature of wealth to the present, where they are thriving and driving the world’s economy.

Directed by Jim Taylor

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