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Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

  • February 2023
  • 52mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Stephen Ives,

    Cameo George,

    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.