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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Intimate stories of one Rust Belt city's struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. FRONTLINE and ProPublica report on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, OH, a once-booming city where nearly 35 percent now live in poverty.
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Students will explore Africa's history and learn to what degree its colonial legacy continues to impact the continent. They will understand the causes, effects and possible solutions to major problems, such as hunger and diseases like HIV/AIDS, and discover how controversial international trade policies continue to contribute to Africa's underdevelopment.
6) Collapse
Publisher
Film Buff
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men.
7) Trump card
Publisher
D'Souza Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dinesh D'Souza makes the argument against modern socialism, who is behind it, why he thinks it is evil, and how we should work together with President Trump to stop it.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the sources of the economic crisis to the 1970's, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown"--Container.
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"What happens when the demands of the global economy with all of its excess baggage of Westernizing forces collide with the deeply held traditions of an age-old culture like India's? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman heads to the heart of the conflict and examines how this clash of cultures is affecting the everyday lives of Indian workers, many of them young people, who are caught in the middle. Learn how this noble, proud society...
14) Rich Hill
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Rich Hill, Missouri (population 1,393) could be any of the countless small towns that blanket America's heartland. But to teenagers Andrew, Harley and Appachey, it's home. They are like millions of other boys coming of age the world over, but face unfortunate circumstances an imprisoned mother, isolation, instability, and parental unemployment. Adolescence can be a day-to-day struggle just to survive. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary...
15) Generation Zero
Publisher
Citizens United Productions
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"The current economic crisis is not a failure of capitalism, but a failure of culture. Generation Zero explores the cultural roots of the global financial meltdown--beginning with the narcissism of the 1960's, spreading like a virus through the self-indulgent 1990's and exploding across the world in the present economic cataclysm."--Container.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
17) Roger & me
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith in order to persuade the executive to visit Flint, a city which is economically depressed due to the closure of a General Motors plant.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Sabeer Bhatia, inventor of Hotmail, Narayan Murthy, founder of Infosys, and other industry leaders attest that globalization has raised the standard of living in developing economies through high-tech opportunities, foreign investment, and debt relief. Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs and other experts point out that the world market is being exploited through shortsightedness, including the aggressive deployment of genetically modified crops, environmental...
19) Boeing reinvents the airplane: an interview with Philip M. Condit, President, the Boeing Company
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Philip Condit introduced the Boeing 777, an example of American ingenuity and a product of "teaming", "an approach integrating people and functions that once operated in isolation". Because of the keen competition, from Airbus Industrie in particular, Boeing had to come up with brand new designs and engineering methods.
20) China revealed
Series
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the most complex country on Earth, of the dreams and challenges driving its people to look forward-- while cherishing the past. Can this ancient civilization survive its breakneck journey into the future? And at what price? This is the story of the greatest transformation on Earth, and of the people in the vortex.