
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.

Molly Malcolm
Narrator

Mike Anane
Himself

Michael Braungart
Himself

Steve Bunn
Himself


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Prêt-à-jeter
November 30, 2010
1h 15m
7.6
Cosima Dannoritzer
Cosima Dannoritzer
83

Media 3.14
ES

ARTE France Cinéma
FR

TV3
ES

TVE
ES

Nicols Fox
Herself

Casey Neistat
Himself
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