Film List
Recommended List of Videos for Education on the Debt Crisis
Life and Debt
Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.
Produced and Directed by Stephanie Black
To order: www.lifeanddebt.org
Forgive Us Our Debts
Tells the story of the international grassroots movement to eliminate Third World debt. Hosted by John Dalla Costa, renowned author, global ethicist and theologian, FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS explores the steadily expanding division between the "haves" and the "have nots", an urgent international reality in which the poorest nations of the Southern Hemisphere owe more than $485 billion to their lenders in the North.
Produced by Windborne Productions
To order: www.bullfrogfilms.com
Cancel the Debt Now!
Cancel the Debt Now shows how the desperate living conditions and environmental degradation of poor countries are magnified by the debts they owe to the rich, industrial nations. It explains the origins of the debt and delivers an emphatic message calling for its cancellation.
Co-produced by Julie Harris and John Miglietta
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http://www.olddogdocumentaries.com/vid_ctdn.html
The Debt Police
Uganda has benefited in 2000 from a debt relief initiative coordinated by the World Bank designed to redeem the burden of debt crippling some of the world's poorest countries. But in a country where corruption is rife, is this relief - Uganda has been forgiven 60% of the $120 million it pays to service its foreign debt every year - really going to help the poor? Life travels in rural Uganda with the Uganda Debt Network, an NGO working to ensure that this aid reaches the poor and improves their lives.
Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
To order: www.bullfrogfilms.com
Banking on Life and Debt
Changes are argued for in current world monetary policies that cause export imbalances, debt and financial instability for developing nations. Ghana, Brazil and the Philippines are examples of where the influences of the international banking community have resulted in diminished living conditions.(1995)
Narrated by Martin Sheen.
To order: www.maryknollmall.org
The New Rulers of the World
This film looks at large multinational corporations and the institutions that back them - the IMF and the World Bank. In order to examine their true effects, Pilger turns the spotlight on Indonesia, described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalized economy collapsed in 1998. He traces the history of Indonesia from the bloody Western-backed coup that brought the dictator Suharto to power in 1965, through the economic crisis of 1998.
A film by John Pilger and Alan Lowery.
To order: www.bullfrogfilms.com
Breaking the Bank
This film is a remarkable independent account of the April 2000 protests against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Drawing on the hard work of eight activist production groups and scores of volunteer videographers, this 74-minute documentary is filled with dramatic, inspiring footage from the streets of DC. Scenes of confrontation and harassment the police are intercut with the protests, puppets, and the passionate actions of thousands upon thousands of protestors. Breaking The Bank goes beyond the activists' slogans and corporate media's sensationalism to achieve an in-depth examination of the issues behind the protests.
A film by Big Noise Films, Changing America, Headwaters Action Video Collective, JustAct, Paper Tiger TV, Sleeping Giant Productions, VideoActive and Whispered Media, and Wholesome Goodness in conjunction with the Independent Media Center. (74 minutes)
To order: http://www.whisperedmedia.org/btheb.html
The Fourth World War
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to Genoa, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war.
A film by Big Noise Tactical Media Collective.
To order: www.bignoisefilms.com
2 Trevors Go To Washington
 The annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank and the annual protests calling for immediate debt cancellation and the closure of the World Bank in 2000 are seen through the eyes of two South Africans. In the Bank, finance minister Trevor Manuel, champion of South Africa's conservative economic policy and chair of the IMF/World Bank board. On the streets, Soweto activist and African National Congress member, Trevor Ngwane, joined the protestors. Through the oft-humorous adventures of the Two Trevors we get a unique inside picture of the commanding heights of the world economy, and of the protest movement that has emerged to challenge those commanding heights.
Directed by Ben Cashdan, Seipone Productions, Johannesburg, South Africa.
To order: http://store.gxonlinestore.org/twotrevors.html
Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy
A compelling documentary about how the global economy has forced people to leave their home countries. UPROOTED presents three stories of immigrants who left their homes after global economic powers devastated their countries.
A production of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
To order: www.nnirr.org, 510-465-1984
These films and their organizational affiliates do not necessary reflect the views of the American Friends Service Committee
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