* Black Gold; California Newsreel; 2006; 77m. DVD 3081
After oil, coffee is the most actively traded commodity in the world with $80 billion in retail sales. But for every $3 cup of coffee, a coffee farmer receives only 3 cents. Most of the money goes to the middlemen, especially the four giant conglomerates that control the coffee market. Tracing the path of the coffee consumed each day to the farmers who produce the beans, Black Gold asks us to “wake up and smell the coffee,” to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced, and to decide what we can do about
it.
* Bullshit; Cinema Guild, Inc.; 2005; 73m. DVD 2666
This documentary follows environmental activist and nuclear physicist Vandana Shiva for a period of two years, a whirlwind tour from her organic farm at the foot of the Himalayas to the summit of the World Trade Organization in Mexico to a protest outside the European Patents Office in Munich. Here, in these institutions of power, Shiva does battle with the proponents of globalization, multi-national corporations like Monsanto, an American bio-tech company manufacturing genetically modified foods (whom Shiva holds responsible for a rash of farmers’ suicides) and Coca-Cola, accused of depleting and contaminating groundwater in India. ... Elucidates some of the most pressing social and technological questions of the 21st century — Can genetically modified foods alleviate world hunger? Is it legal for corporations to patent natural crops? Can indigenous knowledge inform modern genetic engineering? — as it takes you to the frontlines of the war over globalization.
* China Blue; Bullfrog Films; 2005; 88m. DVD 3387
This documentary visits a Chinese blue-jean factory, where workers are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with a Western client that forces his teenage employees to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable.
* Darwin’s Nightmare; Image Entertainment; 2004; 107m. DVD 3776
An essential documentary on the perverse aspects of globalization. Enter the Nile Perch, a voracious predator implanted into Lake Victoria in Africa in the ’60’s, which extinguished native fish species and multiplied so fast that its fillets are today exported worldwide - predominantly in exchange for the countless weapons used to wage war in the dark centre of the continent.
* Tales From the Global Economy: The Cappuccino Trail; Films for the Humanities & Sciences; 2006; 50m. DVD 2878
Following the trail of two coffee beans grown in the Peruvian Andes, this program looks at the stimulant which, after oil, is the most globally traded commodity. One of the beans takes the route of the open market where its price is determined by commodities traders and analysts. The other bean finds its way into a gourmet coffee made by a company dedicated to paying fair prices to farmers for their high-quality organic crop.
* We Feed the World; Bullfrog Films; 2005; 96m. DVD 4042
Vividly reveals the dysfunctional nature of the industrialized world food system and shows what world hunger has to do with us. Includes interviews with fishermen, farmers and drivers, as well as Jean Ziegler of the UN, Karl Otrok of seed manufacturer Pioneer, and Peter Brabeck of Nestle International.
* The Cow Jumped Over the Moon; First Run/Icarus Films; 1999; 52m. VHS 9244
Documents the interaction between the traditional knowledge of West African nomads and the advanced technological capabilities of the United Sates, represented by agencies such as NASA and NOAA. Connected by an extraordinary program which aims to preserve the “old” by using the “new,” these radically different sets of information are expressed in contrasting images—from thousands of cows swimming the Niger River to enormous satellite dishes scanning the skies.
* The Debt Police; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 24m. VHS 7918
Part 29 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Uganda has recently benefited from a debt relief initiative, but in a country where corruption is rife, is this relief really going to reach the poor? This program travels in rural Uganda with the Uganda Debt Network, an NGO working to ensure that this aid does reach the poor and improves their lives, and reports on the thriving anti-corruption movement that has sprung up, with popular theater and campaigning schoolchildren.
* Frankfurt: The Euro City; Films for the Humanities & Sciences; 2007; 26m. DVD 3242
Studies the effects of diversity in Frankfurt, the city with the largest foreign and immigrant population in continental Europe, considering right-wing extremism, the nation’s anti-discrimination policies, and the city’s sex industry. From the Global Cities series.
* The Global Generation; Films for the Humanities & Sciences; 2001; (6 DVDs) 156m. DVD 2898
This documentary series focuses on the multifaceted aspects of globalization. Cultural values are shifting. Political and economic forces are creating a more centralized world. The gap is growing between rich and poor in both industrialized and developing countries. The programs suggest some effective responses to the negative impacts of globalization. Contents: [pt. 1] Beyond borders — [pt. 2] The global marketplace — [pt. 3] Global partnerships — [pt. 4] The global neighborhood — [pt. 5] The global grassroots — [pt. 6] The global dimension.
* Life and Debt; New Yorker Video; 2003; 86m. DVD 952
Jamaica became an independent country from Great Britain in 1962. It is the land of sea, sand, and sun ... but it is also a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world’s developing countries. Effectively portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devastating consequences of globalization.
* London: The Imperial City; Films for the Humanities & Sciences; 2007; 26m. DVD 3241
Travels London’s increasingly cosmopolitan neighborhoods, interviewing citizens offering different perspectives on immigration and resistance to it, including Islamophobia, and the frustration with foreigners who refuse to conform. A tour of the city’s food markets reflects an astonishing diversity that is a source of newfound civic pride. From the Global Cities series.
* Lost Generations; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7951
Part 24 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Maternal poverty and malnutrition have increased dramatically in India since the early ’90’s. Low birth weight babies from malnourished mothers grow up to become malnourished themselves and in turn give birth to more low birth weight babies. This film explores what can be done to break the cycle of poverty and ill-health that condemns whole populations to sub-standard lives.
* Mexico City: The Impossible City; Films for the Humanities & Sciences; 2007; 26m. DVD 3243
Defines Mexico City’s globalization in terms of winners and losers, examining how, in the world’s largest metropolis, immigration challenges are linked to poverty and population influx from surrounding rural areas. Contrasting the high-tech facilities and fashionable neighborhoods with its sprawling slums and struggling inhabitants, the program outlines the relationship between foreign investment and the worldwide need for cheap labor, which Mexico and its indigenous peoples readily supply. Glimpses into a tech-savvy youth culture and the persistent Zapatista movement reinforce the capital’s nickname: City of Contrasts. From the Global Cities series.
* New York: The World’s City; Films for the Humanities & Sciences; 2007; 26m. DVD 3239
To describe New York City’s cultural makeup, the best metaphor is a salad bowl rather than a melting pot. This program follows the Queens #7 subway line through a dazzling array of ethnic communities, each with its own distinct texture and flavor, illustrating demographic changes the city has undergone since the early 1990’s. Less inclined to learn English and join mainstream society than previous immigrant generations, recently arrived New Yorkers are nevertheless part of a long-established pattern—which former Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ) praises, while New York State Senator Frank Padavan discusses fears that some conservative citizens harbor. From the Global Cities series.
* The Other Side (El Otro Lado); Bullfrog Films; 2002; 27m. DVD 3853
Examines the devastating impact of Mexican-United States migration. The families and communities left behind are disabled, and their languages and cultures are being destroyed. This program looks at villagers who strive to ensure that their children will no longer have to migrate to have a better life.
* Re-Imagining Ireland; Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; 2004; 57m. DVD 2387
Documentary with 37 interviews and a variety of performance events filmed at this international conference and festival on Irish identity in a global context.
* The Seattle Syndrome; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 26m. VHS 7896
Part 7 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Many people in the Third World feel they are being penalized when they face drastic import controls for turning their raw materials into manufactured goods. Now they’re also running up against the Seattle Syndrome — an alliance of liberals and protectionists who want more restrictions on trade to fight poor wages and exploitative working conditions. But is this a justifiable way of fighting globalization — or a kind of colonialism in disguise? The film also examines the garment industry of the Philippines as an example.
* Taxi to Timbuktu; First Run/Icarus Films; 2004; 50m. VHS 6161
A documentary about the drought-stricken Malian village of Batama and how the men of this village have gone abroad trying to find jobs and earn enough money to send home to their families.
* Trinkets and Beads; First Run/Icarus Films; 1996; 53m. VHS 5763
Documents the lives of the Huaorani, a small tribe of Ecuadorian Indians who, after 20 years of pressure from foreign oil companies, agreed to allow oil-drilling on their land. Focuses on the introduction of massive environmental pollution and cultural change, and the tribe’s subsequent efforts to regain control of their lives and lands.
* We Don’t Play Golf Here!: And Other Stories of Globalization; Round World Media; 2007; 33m. On Order
Using Mexico as an example of what much of the Third World has experienced, filmmakers show how foreign investment in export factories distorts the native culture and environment.
* The Wild East: Portrait of an Urban Nomad; First Run/Icarus Films; 2002; 54m. VHS 9540
Portrays contemporary life in Ulaan Bataar, a city at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, communism and global capitalism. Follows Jenya and Sasha as they search for jobs during the coldest winter on record. They try various jobs, selling everything from used mobile phones to intestines, but nothing generates the desired cash flow. The film reveals that their hopes and dreams are not so different from those of young people in other parts of the world.
* The Big Sellout; California Newsreel; 2006; 95m. DVD 4202
Traveling throughout both the developing and industrialized world, The Big Sellout brings us face-to-face with the architects of the reigning world economic order, and with the people bearing the brunt of their policies. The film shows how international financial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank demand draconian cuts in public spending, the privatization of public services, and market liberalization as the path to economic development.
* The Boxer; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 26m. VHS 7893
Part 6 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This film features Luis Rodriguez, who lives in a remote peasant village in southern Mexico and hopes to become a boxing champion in the United States. This film follows him as he travels north to the US-Mexican border, joining other migrants determined to outwit the U.S. border guards. Eventually he succeeds in crossing the border and finds work as an illegal alien.
* Choropampa: The Price of Gold; First Run/Icarus Films; 2002; 78m. VHS 8949
The film tells the story of the villagers of Choropampa where, on June 2, 2000 at the Yanacocha goldmine in the Peruvian Andes, 151 kilograms of liquid mercury spilled over a 25-mile area and contaminated three mountain villages, including Choropampa. The mine, jointly owned by a Peruvian company, the World Bank, and the Newmont Mining Corp of Colorado, insists the problem was quickly resolved ... while villagers tell a starkly different story.
* Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy; Invision Productions Limited/WGBH Boston; 2002; (3 DVDs) 360m. DVD 742
This series explores our changing world: the new rules of the game, the winners and losers in the clash between government and the marketplace, the great debate over the impact of globalization, and the powerful forces shaping our economy and the future of society.
* A Decent Factory; First Run/Icarus Films; 2004; 79m. VHS 9544
In an increasingly globalized economy, more corporations are “outsourcing’ to countries with cheaper labor costs and less workers’ rights. Some corporate managers, whether out of sincere moral concern or because they must respond to the considerations of investors and shareholders, are attempting to balance profit-making with social morality.
* Diamonds and Rust; First Run/Icarus Films; 2001; 74m. VHS 8729
On the trawler The Spirit of Namibia, moored off the coast of Namibia, diamond mining goes on around the clock. The supply of the coveted little diamonds on the ocean floor seems endless, but their extraction is muddied by politics, and fraught with racial tension. Directors Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz received permission to film everyday life on the Spirit of Namibia from diamond exporter De Beers, but the result—which shows fraying tempers, racist attitudes, a deteriorating vessel and front office indifference—hardly flatters the company.
* For Man Must Work, or, The End of Work; First Run/Icarus Films; 2000; 52m. VHS 9429
Discusses how human resources are being replaced by technology in the global economy, ending the mass labor force era and moving toward creating an elite corps of workers in the knowledge sector.
* Geraldo Off-line; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 24m. VHS 7887
Part 2 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Geraldo da Sousa worked his way out of a shanty-town in Brazil into a job in a Ford car factory. Then he was told he no longer had a job because of the financial meltdown in faraway South East Asia. Was that just an excuse or the harsh reality of the new globalized economy? In this film, with the help of investigative journalist Jon Alpert, Geraldo decides to find out.
* Globalization; Landmark Media; 2002; 28m. DVD 4539
This film looks at the rapid expansion of the international market place and the power of those who control it. This power is perceived to be the principal reason why the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing, not diminishing. This viewpoint was also expressed by the thousands who demonstrated against the WTO in Seattle and Prague. However, some view globalization as being the only way for prosperity to spread to developing countries.
* The Hidden Face of Globalization: What the Corporations Do Not Want Us To Know; Crowing Rooster Arts/National Labor Committee; 2003; 34m. VHS 9589
Examines the working and living conditions of garment factory workers in Bangladesh. Calls for an end to child labor and sweatshop abuses.
* The Killer Bargain; California Newsreel; 2006; 57m. DVD 3924
The Killer Bargain referred to by this hard hitting documentary’s title is the availability of cheap consumer goods imported by Western countries whose prices don’t reflect the actual human and environmental costs associated with their production in the developing world. Consumers remain largely unaware of the conditions under which the goods they buy are produced; this film makes those connections shockingly clear.
* Mardi Gras: Made in China; Calley Media; 2005; 62m. DVD 2489
A documentary that explores the production, consumption, and disposal of Mardi Gras beads. Filmed on location in Fuzhou, China and New Orleans, Louisiana, the film follows “The Bead Trail’ backwards from the bacchanalia at Mardi Gras to the factories in Fuzhou where the beads are made. When each group is shown images of the other, the cycle of misunderstanding goes a long way in explaining how the commodity chain is kept in place.
* Nalini By Day, Nancy By Night; Women Make Movies; 2005; 27m. DVD 3301
A documentary about the outsourcing of American jobs to India. From the perspective of an Indian immigrant living in the United States, using humor and satire to capture the lives of Indian telemarketers who undergo voice and accent training to speak to US customers with an American accent. A complex look at life as per Eastern Standard Time in India.
* 1-800-INDIA; Films for the Humanities & Sciences; 2005; 57m. DVD 3002
Over the past decade, India has emerged as the leader in the global market for white-collar “outsourcing” jobs—a notable component of India’s rapid economic growth. This documentary explores the experience of young Indian men and women who have been recruited into these new jobs requiring long hours, night shifts, and westernized work habits. Also reveals the human and cultural effect on Indian family life, the evolving cities and towns, and on the aspirations and daily lives of young Indians, especially women, entering the work force.
* Outsourcing: White Collar Exodus; Films for the Humanities & Sciences/Jamestown Films; 2005; 50m. DVD 2198
More than two million jobs have been outsourced from the U.S. to India since 2000. This documentary explores factors that encourage the outsourcing (U.S. laws, special training and cheap wages in India, etc.) and the impact it has on both U.S. and Indian workers. Analysts consider possible U.S. policy and natural economic responses to outsourcing.
* The Philadelphia Story; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 26m. VHS 7892
Part 5 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This film profiles the case of Cheri Honkala, executive director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union of Philadelphia, one of the U.S. workers left behind by the globalized economy who tells the story of what’s happened in her hometown. Includes commentary by academicians and noted authorities examining how the globalized economy affects American jobs.
* The Take; First Run/Icarus Films; 2004; 87m. VHS 9426
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory. All they want is to re-start the silent machine, but this simple act—“the take”—threatens to turn the globalization debate on its head.
* A-OK?; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 24m. VHS 7919
Part 26 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. In underdeveloped countries, children with Vitamin A deficiency run the risk of dying from common childhood illnesses. The cost of ensuring all children receive enough Vitamin A is small, but improves children’s chances of survival by 25%. This episode looks at Vitamin A distribution programs in Ghana, Uganda, India and Guatemala.
* Chain of Love; First Run/Icarus Films; 2001; 51m. VHS 8749
A film about the Philippines’ second largest export product—maternal love (domestic workers)—and how this export affects the women involved, their families and children who remain in the Philippines, and families in the West.
* Educating Lucia; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7952
Part 25 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Focuses on the story of three African sisters who want to graduate to secondary school but are more likely to receive no formal education, working as seasonal laborers on one of Zimbabwe’s large tobacco farms. They’re being raised by their grandmother who can only afford school fees for one girl. In African countries such as Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Benin the odds are dramatically against girls getting an education.
* God Among the Children; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7949
Part 22 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. The Boston Ten Point Coalition is an ecumenical group working to mobilize the community around issues affecting black and Latino youth—especially those at risk from violence and drug abuse. The coalition’s goals are to make the local churches more effective in the work of rebuilding the community by getting out into the streets to work with the city’s growing numbers of alienated young people.
* All Different, All Equal; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 26m. VHS 7900
Part 11 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Looks at progress in achieving greater equality for women in the five years since the Beijing Conference on Women, where government delegations pledged themselves to tackle increasing violence against women. Also examines gains in women’s rights globally with visits to Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Fiji, New Zealand, Brazil and other nations focusing on crimes against women and their achievements towards equality.
* At the End of a Gun: Women and War; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7898
Part 9 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Druki’s family fell victim to the bloody civil war between the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government forces that has been tearing the island of Sri Lanka apart for the last 17 years. This program reports from Sri Lanka on the suffering of thousands of women—widowed, displaced, detained, separated from husbands, children and other loved ones—as a result of the war.
* Credit Where Credit is Due; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7908
Part 16 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This segment examines the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee that provides micro-credit to rural women in Bangladesh who live on the edge of poverty. It recounts how taking out a loan revolutionized the lives of village women—not only increasing their incomes but also helping to improve their health, and that of their children.
* In the Name of Honor; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7948
Part 21 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This program explores how oppression of the minority Kurds in the disputed enclave of Northern Iraq has unleashed a chain of violence and crimes often directed at Kurdish women, and how Kurdish women are fighting back for their own protection and working for human rights in Iraq.
* Maquilapolis; California Newsreel; 2006; 68m. DVD 2915
Explores the environmental devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana’s assembly factories and the female laborers who have organized themselves for social action.
* Now With Bill Moyers; PBS Home Video; 2003; 60m. VHS 9290
Examines the female face of poverty in three segments. The first segment, Women’s
Word, delves into the world of laborers in Thailand. In Broken Promises, the second segment, NOW travels to Senegal and inside a seemingly inescapable cycle of poverty. In the final segment Bill Moyers interviws Dr. Vandana Shiva, who travels the world challenging the rules of globalization.
* The Right to Choose; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7897
Part 8 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Nibret is eleven—and being off to a man she’s never met. Forced marriage isn’t unusual in northern Ethiopia—it helps to cement ties between families and establish land rights. This program reports on the dissonant voices arguing for change in local cultures, calls for reproductive health care and primary education for women, and looks at widespread discrimination and violence against women.
* Working Women of the World; First Run/Icarus Films; 2000; 54m. VHS 8654
Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., Working Women Of The World follows the relocation of garment production from Western countries to nations such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and Turkey where low wages are the rule and employee rights are nonexistent.
* Fishing in the Sea of Greed; First Run/Icarus Films; 1998; 45m. VHS 9410
Documents the response of traditional fishing communities and rice farmers to the threat of displacement by overfishing and pollution resulting from industrial fishing practices such as the use of gigantic factory ships.
* Inheritance: A Fisherman’s Story; First Run/ Icarus Films; 2003; 52m. VHS 9536
A cyanide spill occurs in Eastern Europe, causing an ecological disaster. The film follows the impact the disaster has on the fishermen whose river was devastated by the spill and the Australian mining company responsible.
* Litigating Disaster; First Run/Icarus Films; 2004; 52m. DVD 1509
On December 3, 1984, Bhopal, India saw the worst and deadliest chemical disaster of all time. Around midnight on that date, vast amounts of toxic gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory, killing thousands of people and poisoning hundreds of thousands of others. This new film from Ilan Ziv takes viewers on an investigation, presenting the evidence assembled against Union Carbide including never before seen documents and exclusive interviews with former Union Carbide officers.
* Jihad vs. McWorld; C-SPAN Archives; 2004; 76m. DVD 1491
A speech by Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld : how globalism and tribalism are reshaping the world. In the wake of recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he urges the U.S. and other Western nations to re-examine their policies on globalism and its effect on the rest of the world. He states that the U.S. needs to be more flexible in adapting to the global policies of other countries, instead of insisting that other governments adapt to ours.
* Our Friends At the Bank; First Run/Icarus Films; 1997; 84m. VHS 9198
Filmed over a period of 14 months, documents the negotiations between the World Bank and Uganda in an attempt to understand and describe the relationship and its implications for Uganda. Describes the activities of James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, and Yoweri Museweri [sic], leader of Uganda.
* The Summit; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7899
Part 10 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. The 1995 Copenhagen Social Summit promised action on poverty, employment, and social integration— pledging governments to deliver greater social justice to the world’s six billion inhabitants. But in the five years since Copenhagen, the gap between the rich and the poor actually widened, while development assistance from the industrialized donor countries went into sharp decline. In June 2000 heads of state held a special session of the UN General Assembly to review progress on the Social Summit.
* An Act of Faith: The Phelophepa Health Train; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7891
Part 4 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. A group of health professionals spends nine months of each year touring the poorest and most remote areas of South Africa. With a full contingent of volunteer doctors, dentists, optometrists and health educators on board, the “good clean health train” delivers quality health care to deprived rural communities.
* Because They’re Worth It; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7911
Part 19 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Out of a total Chinese population of 1.3 billion, there are 42 million Chinese who are poor. This film looks at programs which are helping impoverished Chinese break out of the cycle of poverty and ignorance—by providing them with micro-credit, basic health information, education and hope.
* Bolivian Blues; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 24m. VHS 7916
Part 27 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. In Bolivia, 10% of children are undernourished and average school attendance is less than 7 years. Entrenched vested interests hamper foreign investments and its landlocked geography limits access to export markets. But there are signs of change. This program explores the success of a new initiative, “Dialogo 2000: si se puede,” designed to coordinate the work of donor agencies and focus outside aid on achieving real poverty reduction.
* The Cost of Living; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 26m. VHS 7904
Part 14 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This program examines why AIDS drugs are unaffordable in developing countries, using as examples Thailand and South Africa, two countries who have applied to use compulsory licenses and parallel importing—practices agreed upon under World Trade Organization guidelines—to make their own generic versions of anti-retroviral drugs to halt the AIDS epidemic in their countries. It also asks why anti-retroviral drugs still aren’t included in the WTO’s essential drugs lists.
* For a Few Pennies More; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 24m. VHS 7912
Part 20 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Across the world there are two billion people at risk from iodine deficiency. Apart from the classic symptoms of goiters and cretinism, it also leads to still births, underweight babies, and lowers IQ. This film examines the health problems resulting from iodine deficiency in Indonesia and steps taken to solve the problem.
* From Docklands to Dhaka; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7888
Part 3 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Physician Sam Everington serves the poor in London where 40% of his patients are from Bangladesh. Believing that community health involves not only treating illness, but working with local people on jobs, housing and education, Dr. Everington travels to Bangladesh to test his theories in an effort to improve community health.
* India Inhales; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 26m. VHS 7901
Part 12 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Every day in India, another 55,000 children start smoking. This film explores the cynicism of the major global tobacco companies’ campaigns in India with particular reference to the largest firm in India, ITC Limited. It also looks at the work of activists who have pledged to try to stop them—and to halt the soaring increase in cancer cases in India that result from smoking.
* ¡Salud!; MEDICC; 2006; 93m. DVD 3917
Looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls “one of the world’s best health systems.” From the shores of Africa to the Americas, the filmmakers travel with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and interview international medical students in Cuba—now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories, plus testimony from experts around the world, bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right.
* Life: The Story So Far; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7886
Introduction to a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Part 1 examines whether the globalized economy is now running out of control, or whether ordinary people can still hope to share in its wealth. Although most people today are better fed, clothed and educated than ever before, there are also millions more now living in absolute poverty.
* Life: The Ongoing Story; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 24m. VHS 7915
The final program in a 30 part series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This segment revisits some of the stories covered in earlier episodes and questions just how strong the international community’s commitment is to linking social development with economic development and human rights.
* The Outsiders; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 24m. VHS 7917
Part 28 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This segment explores the social and economic upheavals in the Ukrainian society since the fall of Communism with particular emphasis on the moral and economic dilemmas that face adolescents in the Ukraine today.
* The Posse; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7907
Part 15 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This episode is the story of a group of friends calling themselves “The Posse” who live in Sao Paulo, in one of Brazil’s urban slums. The Posse is centered around a rap group whose songs explain the inequalities of life in Brazil today. Its members include school kids, the unemployed, social activists and university students.
* Regopstaan’s Dream: How the Last Surviving South African Bushmen Are Reclaiming Their Land; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 26m. VHS 7909
Part 17 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Twenty-five years ago, the Bushmen were evicted from the Kalahari by an apartheid government who claimed they were too westernized to cohabit with the wild animals in the National Park. This film follows the story of Bushmen fighting to live on ancestral lands within the park and includes interviews with Bushmen, park employees, farmers, and government officials—each providing their own perspectives.
* The Silver Age; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7903
Part 13 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Advances in healthcare mean that more people are living longer with over 560 million age 60 and over in the world today. In parts of Europe, North America, and Japan, the proportion of older people is rising faster than any other group. The result, often, is a growing population of old people with too few young people to take care of them. This program explores the implications in three different countries: India, Japan and Tunisia.
* Untouchable?; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 26m. VHS 7910
Part 18 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Examines the lives of the Dalits in a small village in southern India. Identified as outcasts or “untouchables,” whole families of Dalit people exist in India effectively as bonded or slave laborers. There are an estimated 100 million child laborers in India. Human rights organizations are now taking up the Dalits’ cause and calling for the end of a system of discrimination as heinous as the former apartheid system in South Africa.
* Without Rights; Bullfrog Films; 2000; 25m. VHS 7950
Part 23 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. In 1967 the Israelis occupied the West Bank of Jordan and the Gaza Strip. This program explores the plight of the 1.3 million Palestinian Arab refugees now living under Israeli control who are being denied many human rights guaranteed to all people under international laws.
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