Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History 2023

The game you know. The story you don't.

Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

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America’s favorite board game, Monopoly, is a love letter to unbridled capitalism and the impulses that make our free-market society tick. Contrary to the folksy legend spread by Parker Brothers, Monopoly’s origin involves a radical feminist and a community of Quakers in Atlantic City. If not for the determination of an economics professor and impassioned anti-monopolist, the real story behind the creation of the game might never have come to light.

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Homepage https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history/
Release Date 2023-02-20
Runtime 52m
Directors Stephen Ives, Andrew L. Young
Producers Amanda Pollak, Stephen Ives, Dominic Lounds, Susan Bellows, Cameo George
Writer Stephen Ives