Free Business Documentaries

It's one of the hottest industries in America. Easier to order at home than a pizza, bigger than rock music, it's arguably the most profitable enterprise in cyberspace. AT&T has been in the business. Yahoo! has profited from it.

This audio documentary from American Public Media examines the record number of bankruptcy filings in recent years in the United States. Documentarians Chris Farrell and Sasha Aslanian travel to Memphis, a city with one of the highest rates of bankruptcy in the country.

Tony Robbins put up for free on his YouTube channel his 2-hour seminar "Leadership In Times of Crisis" which was recorded on September 11th, 2001. Robbins shows his leadership skills by weathering the emotional rollercoaster of the day and sharing dialogue with the wide array of responses to the attacks.

The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models.

Today's teenagers have money and independence, their lives the object of obsessive focus by corporate America. FRONTLINE explores the culture of today's teenagers and how they view themselves and their parents.

In this hour long audio documentary from American Public Media, Chris Farrell and John Biewen jump all over the world to see how the latest wave of globalization is affecting people from Pittsburgh to Bangladesh to India to China.

This brief audio documentary from American Public Media explores the effect of Wal-Mart on U.S. manufacturing, and how a retailer has surpassed in profit every other major manufacturer in the country.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos built a business empire that is unprecedented in the history of American capitalism--delivering endless products, entertainment services and technology innovations to customers with just a click of a button. But what is the cost of Amazon's convenience?

This documentary has won more than a dozen awards at international film festivals. Five years after his first Bitcoin documentary, award-winning producer/director Torsten Hoffmann revisits the topic and sets out to explore the evolution of the blockchain industry and its new lofty promises.

An entertaining and informative look at how Chicago's creative community pioneered modern advertising, forever influencing consumer behavior and culture in America.