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Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Confronted with vast stretches of abandoned buildings, the highest arson rate in the country, and a budget crisis of epic proportions, the brave men and women of Detroit’s Fire Department risk everything to try and make a difference for the place they call home. Ten years in the making, this documentary follows Detroit through impoverishment, decimation, and regeneration, as a community comes together to revive a city on its knees.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work? Experts go beyond the hype and skepticism to unravel the social and technological underpinnings of crypto--exploring how it came to be and why this new technology may change more than just money.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Deadly traffic accidents involving large trucks have surged over the past decade. FRONTLINE and ProPublica examine one gruesome kind of truck accident — underride crashes — and why they keep happening. Trucking industry representatives and the government’s lead agency on traffic safety have said that their top priority is safety. Drawing on more than a year of reporting — including leaked documents and interviews with former government insiders,...
4) Less Than
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at poverty in America and beyond explores what its causes are, what its effects are, and if there’s hope to improve the situation.
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Since 1990, nonprofit Washington Parks & People has tried to reduce poverty and violence in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods by improving parks. At the height of the recession, the organization received a stimulus grant to create a "green" job-training program in communities hardest hit. They had two years to help unemployed people find jobs and care for parks in their neighborhoods.What sounds like a simple goal — putting people back to work by planting...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fashion designer Amy Powney of cult label Mother of Pearl is a rising star in the London fashion scene. Raised off-the-grid in rural England by activist parents, Amy has always felt uneasy about the devastating environmental impact of her industry. When she wins the coveted Vogue award for the Best Young Designer of the Year, which comes with a big cash prize, Amy decides to use the money to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment,...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From ‘Darfur Now’ writer/director Ted Braun comes a riveting docu-thriller following controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman as he puts a billion dollars on the line in his crusade to expose Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history. Herbalife claims Ackman is simply a market manipulator out to make a fortune from short-selling their stock, but Ackman insists Herbalife deliberately targets low-income and immigrant communities and robs...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the second largest school district in the United States, 98% of teachers vote to authorize a strike. From strike vote to contract vote, WHEN WE FIGHT goes behind the picket lines, documenting how and why teachers strike. The film shadows Los Angeles teachers for five months as they organize and strike, providing a unique first-hand account of collective democracy and labor action, and shedding light on the teacher strike upswell across the world....
9) InHospitable
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of patients and activists as they band together in an effort to fight UPMC, a multi-billion dollar nonprofit hospital behemoth in western Pennsylvania. In its quest for market domination, UPMC was planning to make vital care unaffordable for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable patients. These patients were taxpayers who had been subsidizing this supposedly nonprofit institution whose main mission as a charity was to serve the community....
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda and desire of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this. Based on the book of the same title by Professor Richard Werner, a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan during the 90s crash, during which the stock market dropped by 80% and house prices by up to 84%. The film uncovers the real cause of this extraordinary period in recent Japanese...
12) Skilled
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A series of films that celebrates the modern skilled trade workforce through the eyes of inspiring individuals who break the mold, while pursuing the careers of their dreams. The film features four trade workers who dispel misperceptions and showcase the diversity, personal fulfillment and professional success found from these careers.
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 2008 the world experienced one of the greatest financial turmoils in modern history. Markets around the world started crashing, stock prices plummeted, and major financial institutions, once thought to be invincible, started showing signs of collapse.
14) Gringo Trails
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary that raises urgent questions about one of the most powerful globalizing forces of our time: tourism. Spanning South America, Africa and Asia, the tourist pathway known as the GRINGO TRAIL has facilitated both life-altering adventures and the despoiling of many once virgin environments. The film follows stories along the trail to reveal the complex relationships between colliding cultures: host countries hungry for financial...
15) Eating Up Easter
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The iconic statues and sensationalised mysteries of Easter Island have drawn the interest of the world for centuries, attracting curious visitors to its shores. Today, this tiny, barren island is experiencing an economic boom as tourism skyrockets. Yet the indigenous culture and the island?s fragile environment are suffering. This character-lead film follows the way the islanders are managing the results of globalisation and managing...
16) Exit
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
A journey out of the heart of human trafficking. Three women who were looking for a way out of their extreme poverty found themselves at the heart of human trafficking networks. EXIT is not a straight road and many don't make it to the end.
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A powerful man and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the people living around them are forced to adapt to the disruption. As the film follows this process, it portrays the...
18) Esther & The Law
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For decades, Esther Kiobel has fought for justice for her husband, who was one of the nine men executed in 1995 after revolting against Shell's pollution of Ogoniland, Nigeria. Almost 25 years later Esther takes Shell to court in the Netherlands.
Author
Language
Español
Description
La década de 1980 marca un punto de inflexión en el desarrollo de América Latina. Durante esa década se produjo la coincidencia de cuatro fenómenos que desde entonces han marcado el desarrollo de América Latina: el colapso del "régimen proteccionista" que venía siendo empleado por los países latinoamericanos desde la década de 1950; la crisis de la deuda externa; la generalizada aceptación de la política neoliberal, y el surgimiento de...
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