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• Imperial parallels
• Home loss
• Condo vultures
• What is capitalism?
• New sheriff in town
• General Motors revisited
• Jail a kid for profit
• Poverty pilots
• Dead peasants
• Mike gets religion
• The Plutonomy theory
• Democracy at work
• Derivatives for dummies
• Greenspan gone wild!
• From red tape to robbery
• Friends of Angelo
• Elite crime spree
• American financial meltdown
• Wall Street's ruling class
• Financial coup d'état
• Armored avenger
• Eat the rich
• The spectre of socialism
• Seeds of revolution
• Workers occupy factory
• FDR's economic bill of rights
• Crime scene.

• Special features: Sorry, house-flippers and banks, you're toast in Flint, MI
• Congressman Cummings dares to speak the unspeakable
• The omnivore's dilemma? It's capitalism
• The rich don't go to heaven (there's a special place reserved for them)
• How to run the place where you work
• Commie taxi drivers - You talkin' to me? - in Wisconsin
• What if, just if, we had listened to Jimmy Carter in 1979?
• The socialist bank of - North Dakota?
• The banks kick them out, Max kicks them back in
• NY times Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges on the killing machine known as capitalism.

Filmmaker Moore examines the history of free-market capitalism in post-Reagan America and questions its efficacy as the basis for the nation's economy.

The microchip, invented by an American, exploited by the Japanese, is seen here to have caused a second industrial revolution. The devastating effect on millions of human lives is shown in microcosm through interviews with some of the newly jobless in Hamilton, Ontario. Faces bitter, voices hopeless, they speak of a vibrant secure past having suddenly given way to a bleak present and an uncertain future; they fear for their children's prospects. Using the example of Japan as contrast, host James Laxer demonstrates that the cost of technological advances need not be so high if their effects are foreseen and planned for.

• [Disc 1] Numax presenta-- (102 min.)
• [disc 2] Veinte años no es nada (112 min.).

"... Numax presenta-- covers an arresting and media-diverting incident in Spain: the almost revolutionary decision of the workers at the Numax appliance factory to resist forced closure of that business -- and its concomitant layo[ffs] -- in 1977, by "taking over" the factory themselves. That decision lasted until 1979, when the plant closed permanently. Almost three decades passed, and in the mid-2000s, Jordà returned with his cameras to examine what had transpired in the lives of the workers during the twenty-five year interim. The result is the documentary Veinte Anos No Es Nada. This film begins with the closing "party" sequence of Numax presenta-- and moves forward in time to tell the stories of many of the former Numax employees. What emerges over the course of the[se] film[s] is a picture of the shifting sociological currents in Spain (particularly those of industrial reconversion) during the [70s], '80s, '90s and 2000s, as mirrored, microcosmically, in the lives of the individual subjects."--Nathan Southern, on Blockbuster website.

Cheri Honkala's been homeless, unemployed and -- like 44 million of her fellow citizens -- doesn't have health care. She's one of the workers left behind by the globalized economy. Yet Cheri is a citizen of the United States. In this edition of Life, Cheri, executive director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, tells the story of what's happened in her hometown, Philadelphia, and warns that the economic boom in the US could yet prove a disturbing model for the rest of the world. With contributions from Robert Reich, Lester Thurow, Juan Somavia, Naomi Klein, and Francis Fukuyama.

• Special features: Audio commentary with director Jesse Moss and Jay Reinke
• Interview update with Jay Reinke
• Deleted scenes
• Trailers.

An intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial 'overnighters' program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision which leads to profound consequences.

An intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial 'overnighters' program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision which leads to profound consequences.