TY - ADVS AU - Peabody,Fred AU - Alperovitz,Gar AU - Barlow,Maude AU - Fang,Lee AU - Hedges,Chris ED - White Pine Pictures, ED - Ventana Film (Firm), ED - Super Channel (Canada), ED - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, ED - Association relative à la télévision européenne, ED - Yleisradio Oy, ED - First-Run Features (Firm), TI - The corporate coup d'etat PY - 2018///] CY - [New York, NY] PB - First Run Features KW - Corporate power KW - United States KW - Neoliberalism KW - Poor KW - Income distribution KW - Economic conditions KW - 21st century KW - Politics and government KW - Feature films KW - lcgft KW - Documentary films KW - Nonfiction films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Title from container; Gar Alperovitz, Maude Barlow, Lee Fang, Chris Hedges, Phillip Martin, Sarah Jaffe, Matt Taibbi N2 - Democracies should protect their citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but the United States is increasingly failing to do so. This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the experiences of citizens where factory closures and outsourcing have left them desolate and hopeless ER -