Acting
Jeremy Rifkin
Born
1945-01-26 (81)
Place of birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
13 titles
Jeremy Rifkin (born January 26, 1945) is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. Rifkin is the author of 21 books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His most recent books include, The Green New Deal (2019), The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2014), The Third Industrial Revolution (2011), The Empathic Civilization (2010), and The European Dream (2004). Rifkin is the principal architect of the Third Industrial Revolution long-term economic sustainability plan to address the triple challenge of the global economic crisis, energy security, and climate change…
Known for
6.5An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.
Dispatches
1987
7.8Climate is changing. Instead of showing all the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
Tomorrow
2015
7.0The Cook Report was a British current affairs television programme shown on ITV, produced for the network by Central Television from 1987 to 1998.
The Cook Report
1987
6.0The global economy is in crisis. Our biosphere's inability to absorb human activity, combined with the exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this compelling feature-length documentary, social and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a road map to usher in a new era of sustainable development. A Third Industrial Revolution will unfold when three technologies emerge and converge: new communication, new sources of energy, and new modes of mobility. But, in the context of climate change, it needs to happen fast. Change of this magnitude requires political will and a profound ideological shift.
The Third Industrial Revolution
2017
6.9With searing insight that shines light in dark corners, EATING OUR WAY TO EXTINCTION is a compelling feature documentary that opens the lid on the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about. Confronting and entertaining, this documentary allows audiences to question their everyday choices, industry leaders and governments. Featuring a wealth of world-renowned contributors including Sir Richard Branson and Tony Robbins, it has a message of hope that will empower audiences.
Eating Our Way to Extinction
2021
An anthology series of seven documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each piece examines the work of a living person who is a revolutionary thinker in their field. What the subjects have in common is a creative contribution to humanity that has the potential to elicit a paradigm shift—either by addressing global socioeconomic problems, or providing a radical scientific model to understanding a complex system.
Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems
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Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
6.9With searing insight that shines light in dark corners, EATING OUR WAY TO EXTINCTION is a compelling feature documentary that opens the lid on the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about. Confronting and entertaining, this documentary allows audiences to question their everyday choices, industry leaders and governments. Featuring a wealth of world-renowned contributors including Sir Richard Branson and Tony Robbins, it has a message of hope that will empower audiences.
Eating Our Way to Extinction
2021
NRA disillusioned early adopter and internet evangelist, feels a sense of responsibility to engage with the problems the internet has created and wants to see where we went wrong. 'The Internet of Everything' is a documentary that examines the hype and hubris hurtling towards the next frontier in the Internet's evolution.
The Internet of Everything
2020
2010s · 7 titles
7.8Climate is changing. Instead of showing all the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
Tomorrow
2015
6.0The global economy is in crisis. Our biosphere's inability to absorb human activity, combined with the exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this compelling feature-length documentary, social and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a road map to usher in a new era of sustainable development. A Third Industrial Revolution will unfold when three technologies emerge and converge: new communication, new sources of energy, and new modes of mobility. But, in the context of climate change, it needs to happen fast. Change of this magnitude requires political will and a profound ideological shift.
The Third Industrial Revolution
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nouveau Monde
2016
7.6A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms trade, hidden in the shadows, feeding the shameful corruption of politicians and government officials and promoting a state of permanent war throughout the world, while they cynically asked for a lasting and universal peace.
Shadow World
2016
No synopsis available yet.
Woodstock 5 Stelle
2010
No synopsis available yet.
The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People
2013
8.2It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis and massive job reductions, this documentary movie questions work as our 'hallow' sense in life in a way that both humors and pains us.
Keep Up the Good Work
2013
Series credits
6.5An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.
Dispatches
1987
7.0The Cook Report was a British current affairs television programme shown on ITV, produced for the network by Central Television from 1987 to 1998.
The Cook Report
1987
An anthology series of seven documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each piece examines the work of a living person who is a revolutionary thinker in their field. What the subjects have in common is a creative contribution to humanity that has the potential to elicit a paradigm shift—either by addressing global socioeconomic problems, or providing a radical scientific model to understanding a complex system.
Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems
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