Movies: Kalle Lasn

  • 2003
    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers (2003)

    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

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    Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and argues that thes...

    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
  • 1987
    In Bed with an Elephant

    In Bed with an Elephant (1987)

    In Bed with an Elephant

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    This feature documentary provides a gripping retrospective of United States-Canada relationships through a study of successive presidents and prime ministers. Using archival film footage, it demonstrates that Canadian prime ministers, from John A. Ma...

    In Bed with an Elephant
  • 1986
    Shift Change

    Shift Change (1986)

    Shift Change

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    This documentary looks at the microchip, an American invention exploited by the Japanese that caused a second industrial revolution. The devastating effect on millions of human lives is related through interviews with some of the newly jobless in Ham...

    Shift Change
  • 1987
    The Rise and Fall of American Business Culture

    The Rise and Fall of American Business Culture (1987)

    The Rise and Fall of American Business Culture

    01987HD

    This documentary from 1987 looks at the serious malaise that plagued the US manufacturing sector at the time. No longer competitive in the world market, and forced to buy more than it could sell, the US nevertheless continued to bask in the glow of p...

    The Rise and Fall of American Business Culture