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The Business and Economics Collection

From advertising and marketing to speculation and debt, The Business and Economics collection covers the field. Including stand-outs like the The Flaw about the 2008 financial crisis and Allan Sekula and Noel Burch'€™s film essay on globalization, The Forgotten Space, this collection provides essential insights into the world of production, distribution and consumption.

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The Business and Economics Collection includes the following titles:

Shift Change - imageShift Change

The impact of the microchip on the economy, including workers.

National Film Board of Canada | 1986 | 57 minutes
Silence Is Gold - imageSilence Is Gold

A political and legal thriller about the attempt of mining companies to silence a critical exposé.

National Film Board of Canada | 2012 | 78 minutes
Silent Killer - imageSilent Killer

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

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Sociology is a Martial Art - imageSociology is a Martial Art

A new documentary about the world famous, highly influential sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, whose 40 books and countless articles represent a brilliant renovation and application of social science.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 146 minutes | College, Adult
Split Estate - imageSplit Estate

Documents the devastating effect that fracking for natural gas and oil is having on the health of families and the environment in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 76 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Stephanie, Erdo and Kay-Kay - imageStephanie, Erdo and Kay-Kay

Revisits three children in the United States, Kenya, and China, who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 50 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Store Wars - imageStore Wars

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

Bullfrog Films | 2001 | 59 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Struggle - imageStruggle

Explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's rights.

dGenerate Films | 2001 | 50 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Tapped - imageTapped

An unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 75 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local - imageTaylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

The gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory during 1973-74.

Kartemquin Films | 1980 | 33 minutes

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