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Globalization and Global Issues
47 film(s) found
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The political issues behind the control of water in North America. more »
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The film documents the conflict between major banana companies, like Dole and Chiquita, and small growers who champion environmentally safer production methods. more »
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How can American workers compete with their counterparts in Third World countries earning 30 cents and hour? Filmed in Indonesia, Venezuela, Egypt and Nigeria, it shows the correlation between economic deprivation and political unrest. more »
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This global court room drama reveals how the health of countless people was compromised by the aggressive marketing strategies of the tobacco industry. At stake are billions of dollars. more »
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This riveting documentary reveals that inside our mobile phones are illegally mined minerals, minerals that fuel conflict, create child slavery, and support other severe human rights abuses in the Congo. more »
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This documentary compares the Canadian system of national health insurance with health-care delivery in the United States. It shows that although routine health care is more accessible in Canada, there are high technology procedures for which patients come to the United States. more »
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Chicken has become a global agribusiness, and the chicken in our super markets may have come from far away Thailand. Globalization is forcing the traditional farmer out of business. more »
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In 1992, Deng Xiaoping's slogan "It is glorious to get rich" unleashed one of the biggest revolutions in thousand-year-old China. He overthrew the classless society and the equal division of the means of production and from then on, China stuck to a socialism with "Chinese characteristics." Which meant that many Chinese families have built successful companies, embracing all the lessons of capitalism. more »
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Two hundred million farmers have left their roots and migrated to the cities in search for a better life. The film focuses on one young man and his travails in participating in the new economy. more »
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An ambitious Chinese businessman tries to launch a commercial center in a small town in southern Sweden. But when Chinese capitalism and Swedish beaurocracy clash, struggle ensues. more »
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This portrait of the global assembly follows the manufacturing of a suit jacket as it travels all over the world to take advantage of maximum quality at minimum cost. more »
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Through archival photographs and old newsreels, this documentary shows how coffee has shaped the economy, history and social structure of a large part of Latin America. more »
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This lucid film untangles the complexities of the debt crisis, still an urgent economic problem. more »
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A new phenomenon in the global economy: toll-free telephone numbers are often answered by Indians impersonating local operators. This film follows a group of university graduates as they prepare themselves for prestigious jobs in Indian call centers, learning to speak and think like their international callers. more »
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This film transforms the media images of starving masses into indentifiable individuals, humanizing them. more »
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Introducing himself as a middle aged, middle income man, Timo Harakka is a Finnish Michael Moore, though less abrasive. He sets out to track a small investment he made in a Far East Fund.He learns he is invested in 55 companies in the 'digital universe’ and decides to discover where his money has gone and what effect it has made in different areas of the world. more »
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This film from the Nature of Things series shows that the challenge of feeding billions of more people will effect soil erosion, salinization, and chemical pollution. Two-part series. more »
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This beautiful film explores the rich culture of rice, still the basis of survival for most people throughout the world, which is poised to change forever due to genetic engineering. more »
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Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations more »
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This award-winning film is a journey across three continents telling the story of the up-and-coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. more »
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The film examines the tremendous influence Google has on the corporate world and culture at large. more »
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This Nature of Things documentary takes a sobering look at how the explosive growth in the world population affects our planet's resources. more »
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India’s booming private healthcare system is expected to be worth billions of dollars in the decades to come, as westerners flock to India to get healthy. Fed up with long lines and exorbitant fees at home, these patients can now fly to the subcontinent and go straight to the front of the line for cheap operations in newly built, hi-tech hospitals. more »
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As the gap between the rich and the poor in India turns to a chasm, a renowned news journalist questions the social stability of a country that will soon enter the top five of the world's economic giants. more »
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An expose of the part played by multinational corporations, Third World debt and trade barriers in fueling poverty and environmental destruction in the poorest countries. more »
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The film examines why the powerful Japanese economy went into a slump and what the future will hold. more »
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The most beautiful and prized roses find perfect growing conditions in Ecuador, where huge greenhouses replace small farms and are the only employment available. However, to grow these flowers requires heavy applications of pesticides and fumigants; many plantations do not provide protective gear for their workers. more »
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In a call center in India, young sales agents struggle to sell an unmarketable product and are at risk of losing their jobs. This poignant but humorous film points up the absurdity that can occur in the global telemarketing industry. more »
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Since the former Portuguese colony Macao was ceded to China in 1999, it has become China's "Empire of Gambling." It derives all its income from tourism, thanks to its sleek new casinos and shopping malls. Thousands are employed by the casinos, with 80% of the population indirectly making their living from them more »
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With a sense of humor and curiosity, the filmmaker explores the shocking connections between the mad cow crisis, the farm crisis, and the global food crisis. more »
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This film takes a wry look at the cultural confrontation of East and West, as reflected in Hindu attitudes towards the slaughter in England of cows sick with Mad Cow disease. more »
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Goat herders, who typify a traditional community, are successfully adapting to a global economy as they are freed from government restraints. more »
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This film is about the effect of European trade and agricultural policies which unintentionally doom the world's poorest people to endless poverty. more »
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When Jim’s health begins deteriorating and his need for a kidney transplant remains unmet, he turns to the internet, where many donors abroad are eager to sell their organs. But once Jim arrives in Pakistan, he meets countless donors left with health problems and regret over their decision. more »
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This film focuses on the debate between the established pharmaceutical industry and the manufacturers of low-cost medicine, The staggeringly high prices of medicines all over the world are a matter of life and death to millions of people suffering with HIV/AIDS in Africa. more »
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Tea played an important role in the British Empire's expansion as it sought to dominate trade throughout the world. A Scottish botanist successfully stole the secret of growing tea from China. more »
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An old purple t-shirt donated to charity in Toronto surfaces in a market in Costa Rica, an ironic aspect of global trade. more »
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In the 1940s, the uranium for the Manhattan Project was secretly supplied from a mine in the Canadian Arctic. Mined by indigenous people, there was little attention given to the fact that many in the community later sickened and died from various cancers. more »
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The film uses the recent conflict over the worldwide steel market, dominated by the US, Brazil, and the European Union, to explore the "economic war" generated by globalization. more »
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This film examines the complex world of international commerce by looking at the major players in the sugar industry -- European and African farmers, major sugar production companies on both continents, experts and officials. The report shows how decisions made at distant international meetings affect the lives of individuals. more »
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Tourism has traditionally been presented as a factor of modernization and economic growth for poor nations. But it often develops at the expense of indigenous populations. This film looks at the issue in five countries: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Honduras. more »
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This program examines the long journeys of the garments Westerners donate to charity, often ending in African markets where they're sold in competition with local clothing. more »
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The Arctic sea ice, a plate of ice roughly the size of Europe, is disappearing.
This film discusses the dramatic environmental, political, and economic implications. more »
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E-Bay is the quintessential global market. This lively film travels from a small town in Germany, to the island of Sky, to a dusty village in Mexico and then to bustling cities in China to show how individuals all over the world are using the internet to buy and sell. more »
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Japanese waste is turning into gold in the hands of Chinese dealers who extract valuable metal and plastic from mountains of scrap. But not all Japanese trash is welcome. more »
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Collapsing prices on the world coffee market have thrown millions of growers around the world into poverty. Filmed in Nicaragua and Vietnam, the film describes the human consequences that the collapse of coffee prices has caused in producer countries. more »
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In the Muslim country of Zanzibar, where women’s activities are severely curtailed, a feisty group of women has defied the cultural constraints by playing a man’s game—soccer—and giving reign to their competitive spirit. more »
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