Films and Documentaries
Feature-length documentaries and narrative films used across the school’s themes — standalone works you would screen start to finish, often paired with a reading or as the centerpiece of a screening followed by discussion. For shorter online explainers, lectures, and video essays, see Videos and Lectures.
This table is generated automatically from the
resources:frontmatter on each theme’s lens files. Do not edit it by hand — add or change a resource in the relevant lens file and runnpm run resources.
8 films and documentaries. Generated from theme lens frontmatter.
Documentaries
| Title | Director / creator | Year | Length | Access | Used in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos | FRONTLINE, PBS | 2020 | — | Free | How Capitalism Works · Practical |
| American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert | 2019 | — | Paywalled | How Capitalism Works · Practical |
| Harlan County USA | Barbara Kopple | 1976 | 103 min | Paywalled | Labor, Work, and Organizing · Practical |
| HyperNormalisation | Adam Curtis, BBC | 2016 | 165 min | Free | How Capitalism Works · Practical |
| The Corporation | Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan | 2003 | 145 min | Free | How Capitalism Works · Practical |
| The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism | George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison | 2024 | 50 min | Free | How Capitalism Works · Liberatory |
| Union | Stephen Maing, Brett Story | 2024 | 90 min | Free | Labor, Work, and Organizing · Practical |
Narrative films
| Title | Director / creator | Year | Length | Access | Used in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt of the Earth | Herbert J. Biberman | 1954 | 94 min | Free | Labor, Work, and Organizing · Experiential |
Other films
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A note on selection
Films can do work that text cannot. They also carry their own ideology, framings, and omissions. Sessions built around films benefit from explicit discussion of what the film does and does not show.
A note on access
Many documentaries are free online (PBS, the Internet Archive, filmmakers’ own sites); others require purchase or library access. The access column notes the situation where known.
Status
This index is generated from theme content. To add a film, add it to the relevant theme lens and re-run the generator. Contributions welcome via pull request.