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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:

Profit and Loss - imageProfit and Loss

From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water, and health to mining and oil industries.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 57 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults
Profit and Nothing But! - imageProfit and Nothing But!

A pertinent and impertinent exploration of the profit motive, and its consequences on our daily lives, our history, and our outlook for the future.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Profits of Punishment - imageProfits of Punishment

A critical look at America's booming private prison industry.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Project Z - imageProject Z

An investigation into how war games, worst-case scenarios, complex systems, and networked media produce the very crises they seek to model, predict and report.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 74 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Racing To Zero - imageRacing To Zero

Follows San Francisco's innovative efforts towards achieving zero waste, thereby dramatically reducing the city's carbon footprint.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 55 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Rape of a Nation - imageRape of a Nation

The Democratic Republic of Congo sits atop one of the world's most vast deposits of diamonds and gold; yet it is also home to the world's most deadly war. Photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale explores the connection.

MediaStorm | 2008 | 12 minutes | 7-12, college, adults
Red Persimmons - imageRed Persimmons

A visually elegant paean to the cultivation and harvesting of the sweet red fruit, and the disappearance of a traditional way of life in rural Japan.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 90 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
Remember These Days - imageRemember These Days

For Walter Backerman, seltzer is more than a drink. It’s the embodiment of his family. As a third generation seltzer man, he follows the same route as his grandfather. But after 90 years of business, Walter may be the last seltzer man.

MediaStorm | 2013 | 12 minutes | 4-12, college, adults
Revenge of the Electric Car - imageRevenge of the Electric Car

Tells the story of the global resurgence of electric cars, following the race to be the first and the best, and to win the hearts and minds of the public around the world.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 90 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Ricardo and Malthus: Did You Say Freedom? - imageRicardo and Malthus: Did You Say Freedom?

The roots of today's global trade agreements lie in the work of stockbroker David Ricardo and demographer Thomas Malthus. Together, they would restructure society in the image of the market. (Episode 3 of the Capitalism series)

Icarus Films | 2014 | 53 minutes

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