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Economics DVDs & Videos


  • A-OK?
    Examines prospects for Vitamin A distribution programs in Guatemala and Ghana necessary for children's health.

  • An Act of Faith
    A group of health professionals tours the most deprived regions of South Africa providing care.

  • Affluenza
    Diagnoses the "disease" of materialism and prescribes its antidote, simple living.

  • Aiming High
    Focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.

  • All Different, All Equal
    Examines progress in women's rights globally.

  • All the Right Stuff
    Teaches teenagers about media, malls, money, and consumerism.

  • The American Ruling Class
    A dramatic, musical, documentary satire on class in America that attempts to answer the question 'Who rules America?'

  • Argentina: Hope in Hard Times
    The Argentine people, in the face of economic collapse, provide a hopeful example for the rest of us.

  • Argentina: Turning Around
    An intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina.

  • Arid Lands
    A moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West, the area around the Hanford Site in Washington State.

  • At the End of a Gun
    The devastating effect that the civil war in Sri Lanka is having on women.

  • Back In Business?
    After 11 years of civil war, can Sierra Leone expect tourism to improve the economy?

  • Because They're Worth It
    Micro-credit, education, health information, and hope provided to impoverished Chinese.

  • Biomimicry
    2-part series based on the book Biomimicry - a new science that studies nature 's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.

  • Biomimicry: Learning from Nature - Part 1
    Using natural processes as the model for agriculture and business.

  • Biomimicry: Learning from Nature - Part 2
    Advances in materials and medicine based on research into natural processes.

  • Black Sea
    Scientists and religious leaders meet to find the solution to the Black Sea in crisis.

  • Blue Danube?
    Connecting more than 18 countries in Western Europe, the Danube River is at the heart of a dilemma over shared resources in the growing European Union.

  • Bolivian Blues
    Explores the success of new initiative to reduce widespread poverty.

  • The Bomb Under the World
    What are the consequences of consumerism taking hold in developing countries like India?

  • The Boxer
    A young male looks to escape Mexican poverty by becoming a boxer in the United States.

  • Brazil
    Brazil has developed generic antiretroviral drugs to care for those afflicted with HIV/AIDS.

  • Brazil's Land Revolution
    In the state of Bahia, a new initiative encourages the landless to band together to buy up land -- with low-interest government loans.

  • Buyer Be Fair
    Looks at the benefits of fair trade goods and product certification for people and the environment.

  • Cash Flow Fever
    One in ten people on the planet either send or receive money from abroad.

  • Cheated of Childhood
    The International Labor Organization tries to rescue and rehabilitate the street children of St. Petersburg.

  • China Blue
    A clandestinely shot, deep-access account of how the clothes we buy are actually made.

  • China Blue & Store Wars
    Two films by Micha X. Peled exposing the way the consumer goods we buy are produced and sold.

  • Chávez Ravine
    Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.

  • City Life
    22-part series examining the effect of globalization on people and cities worldwide.

  • City Life
    Explores Sao Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of globalization on people and cities.

  • The Coffee-Go-Round
    Many coffee-producing countries like Ethiopia are facing economic disaster even as the demand for coffee increases worldwide.

  • Community
    Micro-credit is transforming the lives of women in Bangladesh.

  • The Cost of Living
    AIDS drugs unaffordable in developing countries.

  • Credit Where Credit is Due
    Micro-credit organization in Bangladesh provides loans to village poor.

  • Cultivating Change
    Garden tour that proves that growing food can be an avenue to social change.

  • Cultivating Opportunity
    Hard-pressed farmers in the southeast US and in Mozambique find co-ops work.

  • Danger: Children at Work
    Guatemalan agencies try to discourage child labor and fireworks production by poor families.

  • The Debt Police
    Uganda seeks external debt relief and fights internal corruption.

  • Democracy à la Maude
    A Canadian woman leads the fight against unjust corporate globalization, and for social justice.

  • Developing Stories - Series 1
    The view on the environment from developing countries

  • The Development Road
    A road is always the first step to rainforest destruction.

  • The Doctor's Story
    The US debate over abortion has severe consequences for health care in rural Nepal.

  • Doing the Right Thing
    Porto Alegre, Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization.

  • The Donor Circus
    Zambia tries to change the conditions for international aid.

  • Downwind/Downstream
    Water quality for major southwest cities is threatened by mining, acid rain, urbanization.

  • E. F. Schumacher...
    Summary of Schumacher's economic arguments referring to the world energy situation.

  • Economics
    Economics and its relation to social change and our lifestyles.

  • Educating Lucia
    The odds are against girls getting an education in Zimbabwe and throughout much of Africa.

  • Educating Yaprak
    Turkey's ambitious campaign to reduce poverty includes convincing reluctant parents to send their daughters to school.

  • The Emperor's New Clothes
    An impassioned look at the effects of NAFTA on workers in Canada, the US and Mexico.

  • Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
    Examines the global marine fisheries crisis and the efforts to implement sustainable fishing practices.

  • Empty Oceans, Empty Nets (Short Version)
    Examines the global marine fisheries crisis and the efforts to implement sustainable fishing practices.

  • Escape from Affluenza
    Simple living and its rewards.

  • Escaping from History
    Poverty and consumerism clash in Mexico City. What can we do?

  • Fisheries - Beyond The Crisis
    Two communities -- one in Canada and one in India -- point the way to sustainable fisheries.

  • A Fistful of Rice
    Protein deficiency threatens generations of children in Nepal.

  • For a Few Pennies More
    Iodine deficiency causes health problems in Indonesia.

  • For Richer, For Poorer
    In Brazil the gulf between the rich and the poor is one of the biggest in the world.

  • Forgive Us Our Debts
    Tells the story of the international grassroots movement to eliminate Third World debt.

  • From Docklands to Dhaka
    English MD travels to Bangladesh to improve community health.

  • Gaza Under Siege
    The Gaza Strip has been a virtual prison for Palestinians for over fifty years.

  • Geraldo Off-Line
    The globalized economy affects Brazilian factory worker.

  • Geraldo's Brazil
    Five years later, Life rejoins a Brazilian factory worker affected by the globalized economy.

  • God Among the Children
    Community organization works with at-risk youth in Boston.

  • The Golf War
    Globalization comes to a Philippine seaside community, which has to defend its ancestral lands against golf course development.

  • GoodWood
    Forest communities can have both jobs and trees.

  • The Great Health Service Swindle
    Reversing the brain drain in doctors and nurses from developing countries.

  • The Health Protestors
    Health care advocates demand universal health care for the world's population at international convention in Dhaka.

  • Helping Ourselves!
    In India, two community projects help people move out of poverty and gain control of their lives.

  • How Green Is My Valley?
    Documents efforts to revitalize the polluted, impoverished communities in the former coal and steel producing valleys of South Wales.

  • The Human Race
    Is the western model of global development sustainable in a finite environment?

  • India Inhales
    Activists combat tobacco companies that target India.

  • It Takes a Child
    15 year-old child labor activist, Craig Kielburger, works for reform around the world.

  • It Takes a Village
    A cyclone in Bangladesh results in the construction of an experimental community health center.

  • The Legacy of Malthus
    Argues that overpopulation is not the real cause of poverty in India or elsewhere.

  • Life
    30-part series that looks at the effect of globalization on individuals and communities around the world.

  • Life 4
    A 27-part series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

  • Life 5
    A new 13-part series about globalization and the UN Millennium Development Goals.

  • Life and Debt
    Economics and the murder of street children in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Life III
    A 12-part series about Globalization and its effect on ordinary people and communities around the world.

  • Life III
    Any six programs for $595. See note in description below.

  • Life: The Story So Far
    How the globalized world economy affects ordinary people.

  • Lines in the Dust
    In revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, gender roles are challenged, and illiterate adults educated.

  • Livable Landscapes
    How growth and sprawl affect the quality of life in New England, and some possible solutions.

  • Lost Generations
    Poor health and poverty condemn people in India to sub-standard lives.

  • Lovins on the Soft Path
    Hunter and Amory Lovins make the case for energy efficiency and energy conservation.

  • McLibel
    The new feature-length version and final chapter in the saga of the postman and the gardener who took on McDonald's. And won.

  • McLibel:
    Two activists take on McDonald's in the longest trial in English history.

  • The Millennium Goals
    Explores the ambition and scope of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, and the obstacles to their achievement.

  • The Miller's Tale
    Efforts are underway in Egypt and Yemen to fortify flour with iron to wipe out needless malnutrition.

  • Missing Out
    Anemia threatens the population of Niger and Tanzania.

  • The Motherhood Manifesto
    Looks at the obstacles facing working mothers and families and the employer and public policy changes needed to restore work-life balance.

  • My Hanoi
    Tour of rapidly urbanizing Hanoi, and the effect on citizens and culture.

  • My Mother Built This House
    Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.

  • The New Rulers of the World
    Award-winning journalist, John Pilger, investigates the realities of globalization by taking a close look at Indonesia.

  • No Spare Parts
    Ingenious recycling of used car parts in Ghana.

  • Not The Numbers Game
    Six films from around the world on women solving the twin problems of population and development.

  • The On-going Story
    Final episode examines the international community's commitment to linking social and economic development with human rights.

  • The Other Side
    Poor Mexicans attempt perilous border crossing to US, often at the expense of family, traditional culture, and their lives.

  • The Outsiders
    Explores the moral and economic dilemmas that adolescents face in the Ukraine today.

  • Paradise Domain
    Pacific islanders are not benefiting from digital windfall or World Wide Web.

  • Patently Obvious
    International patent regulations only protect multinationals.

  • Patents and Patients
    India battles HIV/AIDS using generic drugs.

  • Pavements of Gold
    Increase in urban poverty and population, caused by globalization, threatens Peruvians.

  • Paying the Price
    Pharmaceutical companies block generic drugs, threatening the lives of millions of Africans with AIDS.

  • The Perfect Famine
    Examines the causes of, and solutions to, severe famine conditions in Malawi.

  • The Philadelphia Story
    Globalized economy affects American jobs.

  • Poison in the Rockies
    Threats to water quality in the Colorado Rockies.

  • The Posse
    Rap group in Sao Paulo, Brazil, expresses social problems.

  • Razing Appalachia
    Explores the controversial issue of mountaintop removal mining by following a grassroots fight to stop the process in West Virginia.

  • Reaching Out to the Grassroots
    Education and community-driven development combat poverty in Bangladesh and Indonesia.

  • Redwood Summer
    Documents both sides in the summer of struggle between environmentalists vs. loggers and timber companies.

  • Reel to Real: Balancing Acts
    Explores the international movement for women's rights.

  • Regopstaan's Dream
    Kalahari Bushmen fight to live on ancestral land in South Africa.

  • ReInventing The World
    Three 50-minute programs on creating sustainable cities, food systems, and lifestyles.

  • ReInventing the World II
    Two 50-minute videos that offer practical solutions to the big problems affecting all of us.

  • The Return of the Cuyahoga
    The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.

  • The Right to Choose
    Women are denied human rights in Ethiopia and northern Nigeria.

  • The Road from Rio
    Questions the relevance and success of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

  • Save Our Land, Save Our Towns
    Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.

  • Save Our Land, Save Our Towns (Classroom Version)
    Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.

  • The Seattle Syndrome
    Were the WTO protesters right in their effort to protect workers and the environment from exploitation?

  • Secrets of Silicon Valley
    Shocking exposé of the hidden downsides of the Internet revolution.

  • Secrets of the Choco
    The Choco rainforest in Colombia faces development. What is the best option?

  • Seeing is Believing
    Zambia begins a nationwide program to deliver Vitamin A to its population.

  • Silent Killer
    Highlights promising attempts in Africa, and in South and Central America, to end world hunger.

  • The Silver Age
    Growing population of elderly worldwide seeks purpose and care.

  • Smiles
    The struggle for greater democracy and free speech in Thailand.

  • Sowing for Need or Sowing for Greed?
    The connection between multinational chemical companies and the foods they want us to eat.

  • Sowing Seeds of Hunger
    The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has crippled the agricultural community while forcing children to undertake the responsibilities of farming.

  • Stop the Traffick
    Investigates horror of child sex industry in Cambodia.

  • Store Wars
    Looks at the impact on a small town when Wal-Mart plans to build a mega-store there.

  • The Story of Pintinho
    A young Brazilian athlete hopes soccer will be his ticket out of poverty.

  • Subdivide and Conquer
    Suburban sprawl: causes and remedies.

  • Subdivide and Conquer (Short Version)
    Suburban sprawl -- causes and remedies.

  • The Summit
    The UN General Assembly meets to review progress on social justice worldwide.

  • Super-Companies
    Multinational companies seldom take the needs of people or the environment into account.

  • TemeTTeme
    Dramatic children's film about urbanization and family values in Ethiopia.

  • Together Against Violence
    Poor Jamaican community overcomes violence.

  • The Trade Trap
    Ghanaian farmers struggle to get a foothold in the international market.

  • Turbulent Waters
    An investigation of international shipping practices and the treatment of seafarers.

  • Untouchable?
    The caste system and bonded labor are still alive and well in India.

  • Up in Smoke
    Dependence on tobacco crops and manipulation by the tobacco industry has stunted the economy of Malawi.

  • Waiting to Go
    Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are denied human rights.

  • Warming Up in Mongolia
    Unless sustainable alternatives are introduced, Mongolia's dependence on fossil fuels and rapid urbanization threatens the environment.

  • We Feed the World
    Vividly reveals the dysfunctionality of the industrialized world food system and shows what world hunger has to do with us.

  • When the Cows Come Home
    Despite the success of the "Jamaica Hope" milk cow, Jamaica's dairy industry is facing a crisis, as EU trade undercuts island production.

  • Who's Counting?
    Marilyn Waring demystifies global economics from a feminist perspective.

  • Who's Counting? (Short Version)
    Marilyn Waring demystifies global economics from a feminist perspective.

  • Whose Agenda Is It Anyway?
    To fulfill the Millennium Development Goals, many poor countries are now implementing "Poverty Reduction Strategy Programs".

  • Without Rights
    Palestinians are denied human rights.

  • Yemeni Futures
    More than a decade after its unification, Yemen is still struggling to improve the standard of living.



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