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A film exploring the medical-industrial complex and the consequent high cost and poor quality of America’s health care system. It confronts the myths about what’s driving healthcare costs and quality,...
Eugene Jarecki’s award winning documentary examining how business has shaped American foreign policy since the end of World War II, a dangerous collusion described by President Eisenhower as the...
A hard-hitting short film centering on ‘disaster capitalism’ and based on Naomi Klein’s book of the same name. Klein reveals how capitalism has consistently been forced upon disaster-shocked people,...
Robert Topel, professor of economics from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, assesses the benefits of medical research from an economic perspective. Topel calculates the social value of...
Anthony Giddens, at the time Director of the London School of Economics, delivered this series of 5 Reith lectures on the theme of globalisation from major cities around the world, locating the lectures...
Gerry Northam delves into the politics that often underlie the science of climate change. In the UK, the government’s chief science adviser has called global warming a greater threat than international...
America claims to support freedom and democracy abroad but does history really support this idea? An internal government memorandum of 1948 said "We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6% of its...
Adapted from Dr. Charles Menzie’s book ‘Red Flags and Lace Coiffes’, this film uses animated archival images to tell the turbulent history of industrialisation and resistance over the last century in...
Based on Juliet Schor’s book, this video scrutinizes what she calls "the new consumerism"--a national phenomenon of upscale spending that is shaped and reinforced by a commercially-driven media system....
The Black Country in the West Midlands was the cradle of Britain’s industrial revolution and for over 200 years it’s been famous as a centre of manufacturing. But now the factories are closing down and...
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