David Smick
America's Burning
From Executive Producers Michael Douglas and Barry Levinson, America’s Burning draws on an amazing collection of thinkers and strategists, from James Carville and Amy Chua to Ian Bremmer and Leon Panetta, as New York Times best-selling author David Smick guides the viewer on a journey to discover the reasons for today’s hate and division — and rising risk of civil war. For 40 years, the US economy has been a paradox. It’s been an extraordinary wealth-creating machine, but only for the half of the country that owns stocks. Capitalism has, as James Carville put it, become “a racket” — a corporate insider’s club, a system centrally controlled by the well connected few. As a result, the middle class is shrinking and the American Dream’s promise of social mobility for all who work hard is dying. A new Velvet Rope Society of brains and money has cut itself off from the rest of America. Working families feel forgotten and angry, but it doesn’t have to be this way. America has an impressive history of resilience. Narrated by Michael Douglas, the film shows why our best days could still lie ahead.
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Stars and Strife
An inspiring film about a divided America gorging on hate. A remarkable cast—from the head of Black Lives Matter-NY to Secretaries of State and Defense—takes an expedition into how to halt today’s epidemic of contempt and save America’s soul. A film of resilience, reform, empathy and hope coming in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and George Floyd riots, the cast confronts what it means to be an American at a time when things we thought could never happen are happening. Executive Producer: Academy Award winner BARRY LEVINSON. The cast includes Leon Panetta, James Baker, Rahm Emanuel, Alan Greenspan, Alice Rivlin, Larry Summers, David Ignatius, Hawk Newsome (Black Lives Matter-NY), Amy Chua, Liza Gold (psychiatrist), Niall Ferguson, Derek Black (former white nationalist), Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein (synagogue shooting survivor) and Ken Langone (co-founder-Home Depot).
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