Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty (which sold over three million copies worldwide and landed Piketty on Time's list of most influential people), this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future.

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“Pemberton... keeps everything engaging and clear, an accomplishment in a movie that devotes around a minute to explaining the "stagflation" of the 1970s.”
The New York Times

“A sleek tour of economic history over the last 400 years or so.”
Los Angeles Times

“Like its source material, Pemberton's film takes a wide view of the last three centuries in order to argue that the system itself has never been as flawed as the people who try to rig it in their favor.”
IndieWire

"It's a massive achievement, turning this weighty volume into enthralling cinema."
Austin Chronicle

"Bold, incisive, riveting… one of the best documentaries in recent years."
ShockYa

"An easily digestible cinematic companion to such a crucial and potentially prophetic book." 
PopMatters

"The rock star economist of our time."
The Times of London

“An intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history.”
Washington Post

“The most important study of inequality in over fifty years.”
The Nation