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As neoliberal policies continue to exacerbate poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation, the films in our globalization collection allow viewers to confront the harsh--and often hidden--conditions faced by those on the losing end of the dominant economic paradigm, as well as a framework for analyzing the forces shaping those conditions. They offer an alternative to the mainstream media coverage, reminding us that a different trajectory is not only possible but imperative.
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THE DEBT OF DICTATORS
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 45 minutes, 2005, English |
| The first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world. MORE... |
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MAY JUSTICE BE DONE
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 53 minutes, Argentina, United States, 2006, in French and Spanish with English subtitles |
| By any standard Argentina was a very rich country until the 1970s, with competitive industries, modern agriculture, and a prosperous middle class. By 2001, 21 out of 36 million people were living below the poverty level, and formerly eradicated diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy reemerged. MORE... |
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THE BIG SELLOUT
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| DVD, 94 minutes, 2006, In English and Spanish with English subtitles throughout |
| Using case studies in the Philippines, South Africa and Bolivia, The Big Sellout illustrates how international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, are demanding cuts in public spending, the privatization of public services and market liberalization as the only path to economic development. The policies implemented by these international neo-liberal businesses have disastrous consequences for millions of ordinary people around the globe. MORE... |
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BLACK GOLD
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 77 minutes, 2006, 
Facilitator Guide Available |
| After oil, coffee is the most actively traded commodity in the world. But for every $2 cup of coffee, a farmer receives only a few pennies. The film traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce the beans. In the process Black Gold provides an in-depth study of the commodity and offers a compelling introduction to the ‘fair trade’ movement galvanizing consumers around the globe. MORE... |
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SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK
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| DVD, 52 minute version, 86 minute version and 45 minute DVD extras on one DVD, 2008, In English and Turkmen with English sub-titles |
| Why are some of the world's biggest international companies translating the Ruhnama, an absurd government propaganda book from Turkmenistan, into their own languages? This high-spirited, political satire exposes the complicity of multinational corporations supporting the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan, one of the world's most egregious violators of human rights. MORE... |
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HEALTH FOR SALE
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 53 minutes, India, South Africa, Switzerland, 2007 |
| Health for Sale asks: are the world's largest drug companies, paradoxically, major obstacles to making a healthier world? The film focuses on Big Pharma, the ten largest pharmaceutical makers, who account for 500 billion dollars of world health spending a year and whose 205 billion dollars in pre-tax profits were more than the combined profits of the 490 other Fortune 500 companies. MORE... |
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A KILLER BARGAIN
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 57 minutes, 2006 |
| The killer bargain referred to by this documentary's title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don't reflect the human and environmental costs of their production. MORE... |
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THOMAS SANKARA: THE UPRIGHT MAN
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 52 minutes, France, 2006, In French with English subtitles |
| Thomas Sankara rose to power in Burkina Faso in a popularly supported coup in 1983. To symbolize this rebirth, he renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, "Land of Upright Men" and launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. MORE... |
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