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  1. Billionaires’ Tea Party: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution (2011)

    Director
    Taki Oldham
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 54 minutes), $250.00 (MEF)

    In the summer of 2009, shortly after Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, a citizens protest movement emerged out of nowhere threatening to derail...

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  2. Pig Business (2011)

    Director
    Tracy Worcester
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies; Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes), £10/00

    Seasoned eco-warrior Tracy Worcester sets out to discover who is paying the true price for the cheap imported pork for sale in Britain’s supermarkets. Documenting her investigation into intensive pig...

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  3. Dark Side of Chocolate, The (2011)

    Director
    Miki Mistrati; Roberto Romano
    Producer
    Helle Faber
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies; Economics

    Children eat chocolate every day of the year. They enjoy the delicious taste of cocoa, which originated in Africa. But behind the production of their delicious treats, there is another taste altogether: the...

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  4. Scientists Under Attack (2011)

    aka: Gekaufte Wahrheit

    Director
    Bertram Verhaag
    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), 19.90 euros (D)

    Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in common. - they are distinguished scientists and their careers are in ruins. Both scientists chose to look at the phenomenon of genetic engineering. Both...

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  5. David V Monsanto (2010)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology; Law
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £50.00

    One farmer’s battle with Monsanto who pollute his crops with G.M. seeds and then make impossible demands. Imagine that a storm blows across your farm and that genetically-manipulated seeds are now in your...

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  6. This is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

    Subject
    Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 46 minutes), $250.00

    For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as "the commons" -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most...

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  7. Bitter Taste of Tea, The: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade (2010)

    aka: Den Bitre Smag Af Te

    Director
    Tom Heinemann
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), 28 euros

    This programme travels to tea estates in Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, and Bangladesh—some traditional, some fair trade—to expose unsafe work environments and labour exploitation. The workers are plucking tea...

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  8. Bananas!* (2010)

    Director
    Fredrik Gertten
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science; Law
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £14.99

    On his biggest case ever, Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is tackling Dole Food on behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers in a ground-breaking legal battle for its use of a banned pesticide that was known...

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  9. Crude (2010)

    Director
    Joe Berlinger
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £14.99

    Joe Berlinger’s cinéma-vérité feature tells the epic story of one of the world’s largest and most controversial legal cases. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE...

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  10. Pipe Down (2009)

    Director
    Oliver Knowles; Cian Ó Laoi
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography

    A 60-minute documentary that tells the story of a rural community in Co. Mayo, Ireland, who have been battling the oil giant Shell over their plans to put a dangerous raw gas pipeline through the community...

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