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2016 · Documentary
The story of the Czechoslovak economic transformation of the 1990s, especially the famous method of coupon privatisation, which was both the core and a kind of signboard of this process.
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2005 · ★ 6.3
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The Ascent of Money
2008 · ★ 7.7
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2004 · ★ 7.8
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1995 · ★ 10
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1992 · ★ 4
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2009 · ★ 7.1
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
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1996 · ★ 7.3
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2017 · ★ 8.7
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