"Why aren’t we earning enough to live?" – how The Divide lays bare global inequality
The documentary film reveals the toxic social divisions caused by low pay for US and UK workers. (...) The finished film gives moving portraits of the lives of seven people, five in the US and two in the UK, illustrating how economic division creates another division socially, with dangerous consequences for everyone. Its scope is ambitious, looking back over 35 years at the political and economic decisions that have caused the widening divide. The film races from person to person, from one side of the Atlantic to the other, giving sharp snapshots of the problems people encounter as they scrape along in economically divided nations. The documentary attempts to answer the teasing question in the film's subtitle: "What happens when the rich get richer?"