If you only watch only one documentary this year, this is the one I recommend.  It answers so many questions as to how and why America is in the mess it's in today.  Although the film was made in 1996, the future it describes is happening right now.  Running time is 3 1/2 hours, but it get's right to the meat within the first few minutes. 

G. Edward Griffin gave this talk entitled, The Creature From Jekyll Island in 1994.  Griffin explains in simple terms how our money system works.  He tells of how, when, and where the Federal Reserve Bank came to be.  He explains how dollars are created and then manipulated to cause inflation.  The Fed controls Americans through a scam which is legitimized by the U.S. government. 

Says Griffin, the Fed doesn't need to be audited, it needs to be abolished for these seven reasons:

Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement Released By The OWS General Assembly, Zuccotti Park, NYC. 

Our lifestyle is unsustainable, but we have control over how we live.  We impact the environment by the purchasing decisions we make.  We can choose to make responsible choices.

Companies constantly monitor our preferences through our web searches and our purchases.  As we make more environmentally concious decisions, industry will respond with more sustainable products to meet our demands.

With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are? While the thoughts that make us feel as though we know ourselves are easy to experience, they are notoriously difficult to explain. So, in order to find out where they come from, Marcus subjects himself to a series of probing experiments.

Protester: End the Fed Reserve, Franctional Banking, etc.

This has to be a high moment in American history. The “man on the street” is asked by Fox News a leading question which doesn’t reflect what he’s doing at the Occupy Wall Street protest or what is happening in America.

Max Igan has a gift for explaining the system we accept as reality in such a way that it's easy to see the fallacy in our collective thinking.  With Occupy Wall Street in high gear, his words are that much more relevant.

“The more they tell you how corrupt it is, the more people want to rebel. They don't realize that they're free. They don't need to have a revolution. What they need to do is realize that the system is fictional and stop complying with it... What we need to do is connect with each other. That's the point of the whole thing.” ~ Max Igan