The Global Studies Collection
We live in a deeply interconnected world. With advances in technology have come cheaper transportation and faster communication, allowing for a tightly integrated world economy and a blending of the world's cultures. THE GLOBAL STUDIES COLLECTION brings together over 40 films that look at the process of globalization from many perspectives, including finance and the economy, labor and migration, the environment, and even tourism and human relationships.
The Global Studies Collection includes the following titles:
The True CostGroundbreaking investigation of fast fashion reveals that while the price of clothing has been decreasing for decades the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically.
Weather Gone WildFrom floating neighborhoods to massive harbor floodgates, cities around the world are engineering ways to cope with extreme weather events.
Which Way HomeThe personal side of immigration as child migrants from Mexico and Central America risk everything to make it to the US riding atop freight trains.
Argentina: Hope in Hard TimesThe Argentine people, in the face of economic collapse, provide a hopeful example for the rest of us.
Argentina: Turning AroundAn intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina.
Oil and WaterTwo boys come of age looking for solutions to the global problem of reckless oil drilling following years of oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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