Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

Wal-Mart has become one of America's most successful retail chains by offering everyday goods at low prices for working families. But just how is Wal-Mart able to charge less than many of their rivals, and what has their success done for their employees? Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes ...more

Robert Greenwald continues his string of activist documentaries with Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, a rallying cry against what many consider to be the epitome of sleazy big business that targets and even has a hand in creating America's lowest economic class. While obviously biased, the film is infused with enough firsthand human drama and shocking statistics that it's hard to think that it can't have an impact. Sadly, the culture it's unleashed upon either already holds its own opinions ...more