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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.
3) Superpower
Publisher
Cinema Libre
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Explores America's quest for global dominance through economic and military superiority.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This program examines how cheap government loans in South Korea encouraged the growth of large conglomerates, and how new policies are helping small and medium companies to develop. Discusses the South Korean government's use of onerous anti-business tactics, such as tax audits on those Koreans who buy imported cars. Officials from conglomerates Daewoo, Samsung, and Hyundai discuss the business practices that contributed to their success. A British...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout Africa, democracy has long been touted as the cure for the continent's ongoing unrest. But can such a form of government flourish in countries where extreme poverty is the norm and violence is the chief tool of statecraft? Spanning the continent from Libya to South Africa, this program seeks to understand Africa's complex political situations, addressing the 'Big Man' syndrome and the one-party state, the destabilizing effects of armed...
7) The warning
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the derivative securities market during the 1990s and explores early warnings of the financial crisis of 2008. Uncovers an intense battle between high-ranking members of the Clinton administration versus Brooksley Born who tried to sound the alarm about the need to regulate the emerging, highly complex, and lucrative derivatives markets. Examines Alan Greenspan's economic policies.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004], c1999]
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the European Monetary Union (EMU), the unification timetable up to 2002, the convergence criteria, and the coins and banknotes themselves. Provides background on the euro member states and the European Central Bank, examines the impact of the euro on world trade, the job market, and tourism, and analyzes the euro's role in international monetary transactions. Compares the euro to the dollar and discusses the hopes and fears...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Just as America envisioned Communist threats during much of the 20th century, the specter of capitalism loomed large in the Soviet Cold War psyche. This program surveys Soviet animated propaganda, embodying that fiercely anti-capitalist spirit. Foreshadowing the space race, Interplanetary Revolution depicts a Communist triumph over free-market forces on Mars; China in Flames warns against capitalist interference in the Chinese Revolution; Shareholder...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Soviet film studios worked hard to portray their government's system as idyllic and forward-looking. This program showcases animated films designed to promote that utopian vision. Soviet Toys, the earliest known example of Soviet animation, condemns Lenin's New Economic Policy; The Victorious Destination celebrates the achievements of Stalin's first five-year plan; Samoyed Boy praises the Soviet educational system and the casting-off of antiquated...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Racism, unemployment, aggression, excess -- the USSR's animation studios frequently took aim at these aspects of American culture. Representing five decades of animated Soviet propaganda, this program features short films that blast the U.S. and its perceived evils. Black and White and Mister Twister extol the absence of bigotry in Soviet society while Someone Else's Voice portrays jazz as "an enemy of the people." Ave Maria condemns America's presence...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Episode one: explains how, for the last half of the 20th century, the world moved toward more governmental control of markets -- from the centrally planned economies of the communist world to the "mixed economies" of Europe and the developing world to the United States' regulated capitalism -- and then began to move away from governmental control in the 1980s and 1990s. Discuss two important economists of this era: John Maynard Keynes, who advocated...
Publisher
Jove Film Distribution
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Russian
Description
From the 1920s to the 1980s, the Soviet regime ordered the production of dozens of animated propaganda films. Their target audience was the Soviet Union itself, and their goal was to win the hearts and minds of the Soviet people. Commentary by leading Soviet film scholars.