- Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky (the large picture of society)
- companion film: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Mark Achbar
- Moral Mazes, Robert Jackall (how corporations really work)
- companion film: Brazil, Terry Gilliam
- Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (how the other half lives)
- companion film: [still looking]