Capital In The 21St Century

2019 • 102 minutes

About this movie

Adapting one of the most groundbreaking and powerful books of our time, Capital in the 21st Century is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, shining a new light on the world around us and its growing inequalities. Traveling through time from the French Revolution and other huge global shifts, to world wars and through to the rise of new technologies today, 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.

Ratings and reviews

Great take on Piketty's book, though subtitles for foreign languages were a bit difficult to read. Definitely worth a watch however.

Very relative as background to todays economic mire