Documentary
Kuwait’s constitution says that every person has the right to a job, so in some places 20 people are employed for one person’s job. In South Korea, they work so much that a policy has been introduced to turn off computers at the end of the day so that employees can’t work any more. In the US, they give up over 500 million holiday hours each year, while Amazon’s drivers are trying to form a union. Meanwhile, robots are poised to take over most jobs and put the rest of us out of work. Work is so crucial to our identity and what we spend our waking hours on that it is barely noticed anymore. A lot has happened since a group of Puritan priests invented the concept of work ethic in the 1600s, and in the 21st century the very concept of work is in many ways disintegrating. A perfect situation for a filmmaker like Swedish mastermind Erik Gandini, who travels the world to explore what the concept of work means today – if it means anything at all.
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IMDB 3.5 | Mar , 2022
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 2024
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IMDB 0 | May , 2025
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IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1996
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IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2008
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2014
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IMDB 7 | Oct , 2014
A documentary about the development and spread of the virtual currency called Bitcoin.Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife
IMDB 5.2 | Apr , 1994
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IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1986
This refreshingly frank and impartial study of the discovery and development of the notorious hallucinogenic drug is notably free of moral judgmental, and features contributions from such legendary heroes of psychedelia as Albert Hoffman - the Swiss scientist who discovered the drug - Aldous Huxley - author of 'The Doors of Perception' - Ken Kesey - author of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.Let's Make Money
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 2008
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IMDB 8 | Dec , 2019
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IMDB 5 | Jan , 2006
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IMDB 8 | Apr , 2024
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IMDB 10 | Feb , 2023
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IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2009
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IMDB 1 | Jan , 1962
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IMDB 7.3 | Jan , 2006
Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being createdSaving Capitalism
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 2017
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich meets with Americans from all walks of life as he chronicles a seismic shift in the nation's economy.Tawai: A Voice from the Forest
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 2017
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world around us.