The 2nd Zeitgeist film delves into how financial institutions control the globalised world we are now living in. It explains that corporate America is effectively creating a global empire, where its people live off the proceeds of other countries natural resources. These resources are taken at low prices, which see's local populations in poorer countries working in near-slavery conditions, at best. To get these low prices, the buyer obviously needs to exert force on the seller, and the film argues that this has lead to a great many US-backed dictatorships around the world to achieve this intended goal. The film ends with some pretty ambitious plans, called the Venus Project, for saving humanity by creating a resource-driven world, as opposed to our current monetary-based world.