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Economics
53 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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This film investigates the roles of the international banking clique, including American banks, in collaborating with the Nazis during World War II. 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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The betelnut has been a socially accepted narcotic in coastal Papua New Guinea since ancestral times but in the Highlands, where a majority of the population lives, it is a recent arrival. The film follows Lukus Kalma as he tries to supplement his income by buying betelnuts from growers and reselling them at home. more »
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Between Two Rivers shines a spotlight on Cairo, Illinois, a historic town still dogged by its history of civil rights unrest, located between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, where North meets South in America’s heartland. 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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Across the globe, a major legal and scientific war raging over one simple question: should individuals and corporations be permitted to patent genes? 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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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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A history of the community development credit union movement which grew out of the need for African Americans to get bank loans. more »
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In addition to losing manual jobs, the West is finding that highly skilled jobs are also being lost to lower paid Asian technical professionals. more »
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The film follows six welfare mothers over the course of a year as they struggle to comply with new work requirements, find reliable child care and transportation, battle drug addiction and depression, confront domestic violence, and try to make ends meet in the new era of welfare reform. more »
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This film highlights the events that led to the bankruptcy of Enron in 2001.It was the first in a series of debacles that included the mammoth corporations Tyco and WorldCom as well as the leading accounting firm Arthur Andersen. 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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A provocative film based on the work of economist Jeremy Rifkin who foresees a calamity of global proportions as our workforce is marginalized by new technology. 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 documentary shows that the attempt to contain medical costs can reduce hospital stays and unnecessary tests, but may compromise the quality of care. 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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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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This gripping documentary chronicles the devastating effect of giant book chains on the country's independent bookstores. During the golden years of the independents, there were 5,200 members of the American Booksellers Association -- today there are fewer than 3,000. 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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Rough, raw, and unapologetically inspirational, Let Fury Have the Hour is a charged journey into the heart of today's creative counter-culture that rose out of a the search for authenticity in a world of growing consumerism and confusion. more »
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This documentary examines the current wave of welfare reform in America. It looks at the effect of new legislation on people’s lives, searching for initiatives that have proven effective. more »
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In 1962, Michael Harrington’s book The Other America was a groundbreaking study of poverty that was probably the driving force behind the "war on poverty." Archival footage and fascinating interviews explore why such poverty still exists despite a booming economy. 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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The vast Niger Delta holds an estimated three percent of the world's oil, and to the U.S. it's a vital alternative to the oilfields of the Middle East - worth $30 billion per year. Yet a well organized crime gang in Nigeria has the power to disrupt the oil flow, threatening economies worldwide. 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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The two currencies in Papua New Guinea are the modern cash economy and a traditional economy based around shell money, banana leaves and pig tusks. The problem is that there is no exchange between the two and a bank is badly needed. more »
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China's economic revolution is illustrated by the change undergone in Shenzen, a farming village that has become an industrial center. The lure of free enterprise is so strong that millions of Chinese want to work there and guards have been posted to control the flow of migrants. more »
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The film serves as an exposé of how the banking industry harvests billions of dollars from consumers in the form of overdraft and other fees and shares how individuals can fight against the unfair fees. 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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A richly illustrated account of the 15th Century voyages that opened European trade with Africa and Asia.(in 2 parts) 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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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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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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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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Some women in Senegal emerged from their domestic roles into breadwinner roles after the economic crisis in the 1980's. They formed collectives, called Roscas, which are cooperatives very much in keeping with the African sense of community. more »
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An impoverished Chinese couple moves to Beijing from their home town in search of a better life. They invest what little they have in a shabby diner. The couple's problems at times reach almost comical proportions, but they carry on, through joy and worry, determined to succeed. more »
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