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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.

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The Global Studies Collection includes the following titles:

30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle - image30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle

Photojournalist's personal odyssey through the streets of Seattle during the WTO meeting.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 72 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Advertising Missionaries - imageAdvertising Missionaries

Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Icarus Films | 1996 | 52 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Another World is Possible - imageAnother World is Possible

A rousing account of the 2002 World Social Forum that will inspire activists everywhere.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 24 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Antonio Negri - imageAntonio Negri

Traces the biography and current relevance of this controversial moral and political philosopher, his work, and his contemporary role as an intellectual leader of the anti-globalization movement.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Banking on Disaster - imageBanking on Disaster

The grave consequences of building a road through the heart of Amazonia.

Bullfrog Films | 1988 | 78 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Bitter Seeds - imageBitter Seeds

The final film in Micha X. Peled's Globalization Trilogy examines the epidemic of suicides amongst India's cotton farmers, deeply in debt after switching to genetically modified seeds.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 88 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Buyer Be Fair - imageBuyer Be Fair

Looks at the benefits of fair trade goods and product certification for people and the environment.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 57 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Can't Do It In Europe - imageCan't Do It In Europe

Some people travel to Bolivia to go down the dangerous silver mines, to see the medieval work conditions. Are they crawling through the contaminated tunnels to learn about a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?

Icarus Films | 2005 | 46 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Chain of Love - imageChain of Love

A film about the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how the international trade in love and care affects the women involved, their families, and families in the West.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 50 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
China Blue - imageChina Blue

A clandestinely shot, deep-access account of how the clothes we buy are actually made.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 88 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adult

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