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THE BIG SELLOUT
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| DVD, 94 minutes, 2006, In English and Spanish with English subtitles throughout |
| Traveling throughout both the developing and industrialized world, we are brought face-to-face with the architects of the reigning world economic order, as well as with the people bearing the brunt of their policies. MORE... |
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BLACK GOLD
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DVD, 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. MORE... |
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FEBRUARY ONE
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VHS and DVD, 61 minutes, 2004, closed captioned on VHS only
Facilitator Guide Available |
| In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. February One tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example for student militancy of the coming decade. MORE... |
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HEALTH FOR SALE
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| DVD, 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, 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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MADE IN CHINA
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| DVD, 52 minutes, China, 2007, English |
| Made in China tells one of the millions of stories of migrants from rural China who comprise the backbone of the Chinese economic miracle. It provides a human face behind the ubiquitous label "Made in China." MORE... |
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MADE IN L.A.
(HECHO EN LOS ANGELES)
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DVD, 70 minutes, 2007, In Spanish and English with bilingual subtitles
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. MORE... |
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MAQUILAPOLIS
(City of Factories)
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DVD, 68 minutes, 2006, English Closed Captions, In Spanish with English subtitles
Facilitator Guide Available |
| The inspiring story of women workers in Tijuana who, though laboring for poverty wages, still stand up to transnational corporations to win severance pay and to clean up toxic waste sites. MORE... |
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TWELVE DISCIPLES OF NELSON MANDELA
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| DVD, 73 minutes, 2006, |
| Thomas Allen Harris' bittersweet eulogy to his stepfather, Benjamin Pule Leinaeng (Lee) and to the thousands of other South Africans who went into exile to keep the freedom struggle alive during the harshest years of apartheid. MORE... |
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WHAT'S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
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DVD, 49 minutes, 2006,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Ten years after Skin Deep, a new documentary film chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of college students - in this case, led by veteran UC Berkeley facilitators over the course of a semester - as they confront race, diversity, and their own responsibility for making a difference. MORE... |
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