The One Percent is a 2006 documentary about the richest Americans, who controlled 42.2 percent of total financial wealth in 2004. It was produced by Jamie Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and Nick Kurzon. The film premiered on April 29, 2006, at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The film is 79 minutes long and features interviews with a diverse range of individuals, including:
- Nicole Buffett - Warren Buffet's granddaughter, to whom Warren denied "legal and emotional" links.
- Chuck Collins - Estate tax proponent, author, and great-grandson of Oscar Mayer
- Steve Forbes - CEO of Forbes, Inc., former presidential candidate, proponent of a flat tax, and son of Malcolm Forbes
- Milton Friedman - Economist, and Nobel Laureate: 1976 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Bill Gates Sr. - Father of Bill Gates, and opponent of an estate tax repeal
- Gretchen Johnson - Jamie Johnson's mother
- James Johnson - Jamie Johnson's father
- Adnan Khashoggi - International arms merchant, worth $40 billion in 1984, "There is no equality in life. Forget about it. We are what we are. We are created layers over each other. This is it."
- Claude R. Kirk, Jr. - Former governor of Florida
- Dan Miller - Former U.S. Representative from Florida
- Karl Muth - Investment banking heir
- Paul Orfalea - Founder of Kinko's
- Kevin Phillips - Former Republican Party strategist
- Nathaniel P. Reed - Undersecretary of The Interior, from 1967-1973
- Robert Reich - Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
