Economics
by Various Filmmakers
Premiere: August 18, 2009
POV presents a one-hour collection of acclaimed documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.
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by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano
Premiere: August 18, 2009
The world's largest mall is outside of Guangzhou, China. Along with the glitz and glory of middle-class shopping, the mall’s developers seem to have imported something else — a cautionary tale of capitalist hubris. (13 minutes)
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by Yung Chang
Premiere: October 8, 2008
Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Countless ancient villages and historic locales will be submerged, and 2 million people will lose their homes and livelihoods.
by Roger Weisberg
Premiere: September 30, 2008
What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America without health insurance? Critical Condition puts a human face on the nation's growing health care crisis.
by Almudena Carracedo , Robert Bahar
Premiere: September 4, 2007
Follow the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.'s garment factories and their long battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.
by Katie Galloway, Po Kutchins
Premiere: July 24, 2007
In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in rural America every 15 days. Prison Town, USA tells the story of Susanville, California, one small town that tries to resuscitate its economy by building a prison — with unanticipated consequences.
by Suree Towfighnia, Courtney Hermann
Premiere: July 3, 2007
In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed. But when federal agents raided the White Plumes' fields, the Lakota Nation was swept into a Byzantine struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights and common sense.
by Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman
Premiere: July 13, 2004
Global corporations are rapidly becoming involved with local water supplies, trying to combine private profits with what many feel should be a fundamental right to water access. Looking at tensions in Bolivia, India and Stockton, California, Thirst reveals how water is becoming the catalyst for explosive community responses to the management of this precious resource.
by Stephanie Black
Premiere: August 21, 2001
Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.