The American Ruling Class: Now Available on DVD
September 5th, 2008 | by Alive Mind | Published in American Ruling Class, American Ruling Class, Films, Latest Releases, Society, VOD | 6 Comments
The American Ruling Class is a morality tale set to music about two Yale students who seek their opportunities after graduation. Lewis Lapham, the renowned essayist, author and longtime Harper’s Magazine editor, conducts them through the corridors of power – Pentagon press briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, Washington law firms, banks, the Council on Foreign Relations and New York society dinners. As they make their way, the real-life luminaries they meet become characters in a dramatic story about power, its responsibilities and abuses. The subject is our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic.
Part Monty Python, part Michael Moore, The American Ruling Class is an entertaining clarion call for all citizens to consider who has power, how they acquired it, and most importantly, how they keep it.
“A guided safari through the tribal haunts of the power elite.”
-Vanity Fair
“The American Ruling Class k.o.’d me..a remarkable and revelatory documentary
…an astonishing program”
-Studs Terkel
Introduced and Hosted by
Lewis Lapham
Featuring interviews with
Robert Altman
James A. Baker
Bill Bradley
Harold Brown
Hodding Carter III
William T. Coleman, Jr.
Walter Cronkite
Barbara Ehrenreich
Vartan Gregorian
Mike Medavoy
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Samuel Peabody
Pete Seeger
Lawrence H. Summers
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.
William Howard Taft IV
Kurt Vonnegut
Howard Zinn
PLEASE NOTE: FOR HOME USE ONLY. This film is not available from Alive Mind for educational institutions, public libraries and the non-theatrical market. Please contact BULLFROG FILMS.
| American Ruling Class DVD | |
| Price: | $26.98 (Home Use) |
| Item #: | ALV-DV-15 |
| Availability: | Worldwide |
| Running Time: | 89 minutes |
| Technical Aspects: | 16×9, NTSC Region 0 |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | © 2007 The Press and the Public Project. All rights reserved. |
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January 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 am (#)
Is this DVD Closed Captioned? I am Deaf who depends on lots of reading, like Lapham’s Quarterly, etc Many Thanks
January 12th, 2009 at 10:27 pm (#)
Great movie. What that female reporter did by trying to live on minimum wage should be attempted by every elected official.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:59 pm (#)
Dear Michael,
Don’t know if anyone has gotten back to you on this, but please contact me and when the closed captioned version is available, I will let you know.
sincerely,
John Kirby
director, The American Ruling Class
johnapkirby@gmail.com
February 9th, 2009 at 9:23 am (#)
Hi:
There is a closed captioned version available.
Please contact me.
Libby Handros
Producer, The American Ruling Class
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm (#)
Sounds like a great film, I’ll pick it up for my ambitious 16 year old son who I believe will get some real insight from it. Thank you. Dawn
April 12th, 2009 at 1:34 pm (#)
I sympathize with the subjects of this scene, because I am in the same situation. Having said that, living “nickled and dimed” is incentive for me to change careers to a more lucrative vocation.