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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Capitalism [videorecording] : a love story / Overture Films and Paramount Vantage present ; in association with the Weinstein Company ; a Dog Eat Dog Films production ; produced by Anne Moore ; co-producers, Rod Birleson, John Hardesty ; written, produced and directed by Michael Moore.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, c2010.

Description:

1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R (restricted; under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for some language.

Subjects:

Capitalism -- United States.

Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Capitalism -- Social aspects.

Capitalists and financiers -- United States.

Unemployment -- United States.

Unemployed -- United States.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.

United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009.

United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.

Other Author:

Moore, Michael, 1954 April 23-

Moore, Anne.

Birleson, Rod.

Hardesty, John.

Gibbs, Jeff.

Paramount Vantage.

Overture Films.

Weinstein Company.

Dog Eat Dog Films.

Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.

Notes:

Documentary.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009.

Directors of photography, Daniel Marracino, Jayme Roy ; editors, Jessica Brunetto, Alex Meillier, Tanya Meillier, Pablo Proenza, T. Woody Richman, John W. Walter, Conor O'Neill ; music, Jeff Gibbs.

Presented by Michael Moore.

DVD; NTSC, Region 1; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.78:1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

In English with optional subtitles in Spanish and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

Sorry, house-flippers and banks, you're toast in Flint, MI -- Congressman Cummings dares to speak the unspeakable -- NY times Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges on the killing machine known as capitalism -- The rich don't go to heaven (there's a special place reserved for them) -- What if, just if, we had listened to Jimmy Carter in 1979?

Web Site:

Web Link Connect to reviews of this title online

Publisher Number:

ZDV80021

OV21365

Other Number:

443524847

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

260434

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 330.122 Capitali

Medium:

[videorecording]