Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
A passionate, ground-level indictment of Wal-Mart’s corporate model and the communities and workers it leaves struggling in its wake.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- passionate
- confrontational
- angry
- political discussion
- social justice viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the film as compelling and persuasive advocacy journalism, while noting that its openly one-sided approach limits balance.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Robert Greenwald combines interviews, community stories, worker testimony, and corporate criticism into an explicitly anti-Wal-Mart argument.
The documentary follows families, small businesses, workers, and communities affected by Wal-Mart’s business practices.
Stories span the United States and Mexico while addressing retail trade, manufacturing, wages, and labor conditions.
The film foregrounds the everyday lives of families, a hardware-store business, employees, a preacher, and a poet.
Films like Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and why
The Corporation
Advocacy documentary using personal testimony and investigative reporting to critique corporate power and labor exploitation.
Manufactured Landscapes
Social-issue documentary centered on globalization, consumerism, and the human costs of economic systems.
Capitalism: A Love Story
Passionate political documentary connecting corporate influence, public policy, and social inequality through confrontational argument.
Roger & Me
Investigative documentary exposing labor abuses and corporate responsibility through testimony from affected workers and communities.
Movie Details
- Director
- Robert Greenwald
- Release Date
- 2005-11-04
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 (78)
Cast
- Lee Scott
- Don Hunter
- Jon Hunter
- Jeremy Hunter
- Matt Hunter
- Johnny Faenza
- Frank Mormino
- John Bruening
- Tom Glassburner
- Weldon Nicholson
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video
- Buy
- Amazon Video
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price about?
- A passionate, ground-level indictment of Wal-Mart’s corporate model and the communities and workers it leaves struggling in its wake.
- What is Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.
- What did critics think of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price?
- Critics broadly regard the film as compelling and persuasive advocacy journalism, while noting that its openly one-sided approach limits balance.
- Which films are like Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price?
- Films with a similar feel include The Corporation, Manufactured Landscapes, Capitalism: A Love Story, and Roger & Me.
- How long is Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price?
- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price runs 98 minutes.
- Where can I watch Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price?
- In United States, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video.
