Ruthless : Monopoly's secret history
(DVD) 

Widescreen.

Documentary.

Originally produced as an episode of the television series: American experience.

Program content: ©2023.

Running time indicated on container: approximately 60 minutes; program running time: 53 minutes.

"The game you know. The story you don't"--Container.

Director of photography, Andrew L. Young ; composer of original music, Deadre James Allen-Toole ; editor, Josh Melrod ; associate producer, Dominic Lounds ; senior series producer, Susan Bellows ; executive producer, Cameo George.

Commentators, Mary Pilon, Tristan Donovan, Patrick Jagoda, Bryant Simon.

For generations, Monopoly has been America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and, for better or worse, the impulses that make our free-market society tick. An exhilarating game of no-holds-barred competition and brutal domination of opponents, it's a celebration of greed and accumulation of wealth with only one player standing at the end.

"For generations, Monopoly has been America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and, for better or worse, the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the game's creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. Contrary to the folksy legend spread by Parker Brothers, Monopoly's secret history is a surprising saga that features a radical feminist [Lizzie Magie], a community of Quakers in Atlantic City [Cyril H. Harvey Sr., Ruth Thorp Harvey, Ruth Hoskins, and Jesse Raiford], America's greatest game company, and an unemployed Depression-era engineer [Charles Darrow]. And the real story behind the creation of the game might never have come to light if it weren't for the determination of an economics professor and impassioned anti-monopolist [Ralph Anspach]. Part detective story, part sharp social commentary and part pop-culture celebration, Ruthless: Monopoly's secret history presents the fascinating true story behind America's favorite game"-- $c Provided by publisher.

TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-PG (parental guidance suggested; this program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children).

Optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH); English audio-description.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation; stereo.

In English; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).