Requiem for the American Dream

Requiem for the American Dream (2015) is a US documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Directors Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott, and Peter D. Hutchison spent four years filming Noam Chomsky — linguist, philosopher, and arguably the most cited intellectual alive — as he lays out ten principles he argues have concentrated wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands over the past half-century.

Chomsky doesn't shout. He traces: shape ideology, attack solidarity, design elections, marginalize the population. Each principle gets historical grounding, from postwar policy shifts to the deregulation era and beyond. At 73 minutes it's lean, and his delivery — measured, precise, no podium theatrics — makes the argument harder to dismiss than a more combative documentary would.

Whether you agree with his politics or not, the analytical framework is worth the hour. This is where to start if you've seen his name in headlines but never sat with the actual thinking. Stream Requiem for the American Dream online on iFILM.