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Boomers Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Old people run the world, with octogenarians in power and wealth disproportionately flowing to the elderly. Life opportunities once available to today’s seniors—affordable housing, cheap education, livable wages—are slipping out of reach for younger generations. Boomers, the debut feature-length documentary from Tom Nicholas, follows a trail across New York, Washington DC, Florida’s The Villages, Paris, and London to uncover the rise of the gerontocracy and the questionable legacy of the Baby Boomers. In a time of intense intergenerational tension, Tom investigates how a generation that seemingly had it all has left a complicated mess for those who come after.

Boomers premiers exclusively on Nebula November 4 at 7pm ET.
Transcript
00:00Over the past decade, our society's been gripped in a vicious generation war.
00:05They're older than, like, color television.
00:07The kids are wearing, have long hair, and they're having premarital sex.
00:10They don't understand what matters for younger generations.
00:14And they spend all their money on avocado toast.
00:18The consequences of what some have called an intergenerational theft
00:22have become harder to ignore.
00:24Rent has just skyrocketed.
00:26Financial crisis.
00:28I'm going to college soon. This is so much more expensive than it was back then.
00:30How much can boomers themselves actually be blamed for these changes?
00:35And how much has just been coincidental to the times in which they live?
00:49What do you know about the film that I'm making?
00:51I've got absolutely no idea what your career is, Tom.
00:59This isn't a plot by the baby boomers.
01:04Well, one cohort is looking at one economy, the asset economy,
01:07and think, well, actually, I'm wealthier.
01:08The other one is looking at the wage economy,
01:10and they're thinking, I'm doing disastrously.
01:13We need to take a closer look at what divides the baby boomers from the rest of us.
01:18I feel like being 18, back when they were 18, is a lot different.
01:21What kind of world do you want your child to live in?
01:26Do you feel like your generation has left the world better than you found it?
01:30I'm not actually feeling I've left it yet, Tom.
01:32Sorry.