This is a list of films that
relate to the solidarity economy. It is a work in progress, so if you have
additions to suggest, please send them to emily@populareconomics.org

Downshifting, Simple Living, Consumerism

Buyer Be Fair on the ethnical consumption
movement, highlighting coffee

and sustainable forestry. 2006. Bullfrog films

Affluenza on the problems with competitive consumerism,
and some
solutions

Workplace democracy/Worker Cooperatives

The Mondragon Experiment about the
creation of the Mondragon system of
cooperatives

The Take -
on recuperated factories movement in Argentina

Corporations

The Corporation -- documentary about corporate power and abuse, and
emerging socially responsible corporations

Housing/ Land
redistribution/ Squatting

My Mother Built This
House Large homeless contingent in South Africa
has organized to build houses for each other. 2002. Bullfrog films.

Brazil's
Land Revolution In the state of Bahia,
a new initiative encourages the landless to band together to buy up land --
with low-interest government loans. 2005. Bullfrog films.

Economic development

The Barcelona
Blueprint Barcelona today is a model of urban planning that may prove
sustainable. 2002. Bullfrog films

Women’s rights

North Country based on a true story of organizing against sexual harassment
in a strip mine. Drama.

Union Maids women organizers talking
about union organizing in the 30s.

Motherhood Manifesto A film that
not only shows what’s wrong but what we can and are doing to improve the lives
of American mothers.

Wild Rose Film about a
woman working as a miner in Minnesota.
John Hanson, dir.

Social Movements

This is What Democracy Looks Like --
about Seattle
anti-WTO protest in
1999, where unions and greens/students came together

Another World Is Possible, A rousing
account of the 2002 World Social Forum that will inspire activists everywhere. 2006

Argentina: Hope in Hard Times The Argentine people, in the face of economic
collapse, provide a hopeful example for the rest of us. 2005. Bullfrog films

Argentina: Turning
Around Follow-up on Argentina: Hope
in Hard Times. Forthcoming Jan. 2008. Bullfrog films

Campamento gives an intimate picture of what happened when
workers and peasants took their economic and cultural development into their
own hands during the Allende years in Chile. Avail. through New England AFSC.

Doing the Right Thing Porto Alegre, Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization through
participatory budgeting. 2002. Bullfrog films

Northern Lights – Based on the real-life diaries of Ray Sorenson, this
is a tale of Midwestern farmers in 1915 America struggling to save their
farms, families and way of life from the powers that controlled both commerce
and government.

Environmentalism/Ecological Sustainability

Biomimicry: Learning from Nature - 2-part series based on the book Biomimicry -
a new science that studies nature 's best ideas and then imitates these designs
and processes to solve human problems.

Subdivide and Conquer - Suburban sprawl: causes and remedies. Bullfrog films

My Father's Garden Explores sustainable agriculture and the contrast
between chemical and organic farming. 1995.
Bullfrog films

Food Devising a sustainable food system -- one that is
healthy, accessible, and affordable. 2000. Bullfrog films

Cultivating Change Garden tour that proves that growing food can be an avenue
to social change. 2001. Bullfrog films

Beyond Organic: The
Vision of Fairview
Gardens A model of community supported agriculture in the
midst of suburban sprawl. Avail. from Bullfrog films

Billion Dollar Crop: The history and advantages of hemp as an industrial
fiber. Avail. from Bullfrog films

GoodWood Forest communities can have both jobs and trees. 1999

Healthcare

Brazil:
Winning Against AIDS Brazil has developed generic antiretroviral drugs to care
for those afflicted with HIV/AIDS. 2001. Bullfrog films

Sicko Michael Moore’s documentary comparing the highly profitable American
health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories. 2007.