Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
2023 · 52 min · Documentary
The game you know. The story you don't.
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.
- Director
- Stephen Ives
- Writer
- Stephen Ives
- Released
- February 20, 2023
- Language
- English
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