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Ronald H Blumer - The Crash of 1929 Originally produced in the
mid-1990s, this film remains the most authoritative account of the
Crash of 1929, and includes rare testimony from the people who worked
on Wall Street at the time
Kevin Booth - American Drug War: The Last White Hope This film gives a radical
new perspective to the War on Drugs, showing how money, power and
greed have corrupted not just drug addicts and dealers, but the government
and Wall Street itself. The documentary covers everything from the
Drug War's origins to the privatised prison system, the Iran-Contra
scandal, medical marijuana, the drug laws in Amsterdam, Afghan poppy
production and the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s
Robert Peston - Super Rich: The Greed Game As the credit crunch bites
and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how
the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking
up the bill
Dietre Scroeder and Joachiiom Schroeder - Hitler's American Business Partners This documentary uncovers
the unholy alliance between Nazi Germany and some of the biggest corporations
in the US - companies, which were indispensable for Hitler to wage
war. Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, James D Mooney, the
General Motors manager and Tom Watson, the IBM boss, were all awarded
the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the Nazis' highest distinction
for foreigners, for their services to the Third Reich
Dispatches - How the Banks Bet Your Money A global credit crunch has
put Britain's banks in a crisis that threatens the future of jobs
and businesses and may even trigger a wholesale recession. Private
equity financier Jon Moulton delivers a stinging rebuke to the banks
for causing this financial meltdown and explains why the British taxpayer
will now pay the price stream part 2 youtube stream part 3 youtube stream part 4 youtube stream part 5 youtube
Robert Beckford & Ken Kirby - The Great African Scandal Beckford undertakes a hard-hitting,
emotional journey to Ghana in Africa to discover the hidden costs
of three high street goods: rice, chocolate and gold. He looks at
whether the activities of multinationals, as well as the World Bank
and IMF, have actually made countries such as Ghana worse off
Paul Grignon - Money as Debt This fast-paced and highly
entertaining animated feature by artist & videographer Paul Grignon,
explains today's magically perverse debt-money system in terms that
are easy to understand
Bertram Verhaag & Gabriele Krober - Life Running Out of Control (2004) In the mid 1980s, scientists
unlocked genetic keys to manipulating our world. Suddenly everything
seemed possible. There would be no more hunger or malnutrition; diseases
would be vanquished and poverty wiped out. But twenty years on the
situation looks very different. From the loss of biodiversity to health
scares about GM food, the effects of genetic technology are prompting
more and more debate
Peter Bate - White King, Red Rubber, Black Death The story of King Leopold
II of Belgium's brutal colonisation of central Africa, turning it
into a vast rubber-harvesting labour camp in which millions died
Tia Lessin - Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on US Saipan Exposes the harsh conditions
of the garment industry in Saipan, a US territory in the Northern
Mariana Islands of the Pacific. Although the island flies the American
flag, it is not subject to US immigration laws, and in 1976 was exempted
from federal minimum wage regulations to attract business to the island
ABC Australia - Looting the Russian Economy This is a story about the
money laundering game involving Russian gangsters, corrupt officials,
impoverished South Pacific islands and some of the world's most reputable
banks. See how $200-500 billion was looted from the Russian economy,
through virtual offshore banks
Dylan Howitt - Bolivia for sale Damian Lewis travels to
Bolivia to investigate the effects of privatisation in three key markets:
water, gas and milk. President Evo Morales' recent victory was fuelled
by large scale protests against water and gas privatisations
John Pilger - Flying the Flag, Arming the World (1994) David Munro and John Pilger
look behind the political rhetoric and discover the world of international
arms dealing
Greg Palast - 'Vulture Funds' threat to developing world Vulture funds are companies
which buy up the debt of poor nations cheaply when it is about to
be written off and then sue for the full value of the debt plus interest
- which might be ten times what they paid for it. Filmed for BBC Newsnight real player/windows media player download
Here's an update to the
above report, filmed for Newsnight and featured on Democracy
Now stream
John Pilger - War by Other Means (1992) Pilger examines the policy
of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who
are then unable to meet the cripling interest charges, resulting in
the systematic stripping of natural resources and a steep rise in
poverty
History Channel - Blood Diamonds (2007) This documentary examines
Africa's most brutal civil wars, revealing the role played by the
illicit diamond trade in funding conflicts in Sierra Leone, Angola,
Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Looks at the bloody
history of the diamond industry and the virtual monopoly De Beers
has, enabling it to create artificial scarcity
BBC Panorama - The Price of Blood On the eve of his appearance
in an Italian court on tax, money laundering and potentially corruption
charges, Panorama examines the career of David Mills. His links to
Silvio Berlusconi are well known and form the basis of next month's
charges. But after examining many hundreds of documents here and in
Italy Panorama looks at a less well known episode literally involving
bad blood real player/windows media player
Channel 4 Dispatches - Burma's Secret War Evan Williams goes undercover
to investigate the mass ethnic cleansing, forced labour and vicious
clamping down of political opposition by a military dictatorship supported
by Unocal (Chevron) and TOTAL Oil. Additional information can be found
here
John Pilger - The New Rulers of the World (2001) Pilger explores the impact
of globalisation, taking Indonesia as his prime example, a country
that the World Bank described as a 'model pupil' until its 'globalised'
economy collapsed in 1998. Under scrutiny are the increasingly powerful
multinationals and the institutions that back them, notably the IMF
and The World Bank
Adam Curtis (BBC) - Pandora's Box: Black Power (1992) A look at how former Ghanaian
leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial
and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta
dam, generating enough power to transform West Africa into an advanced
utopia. It brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn't control,
and he slowly watched his metropolis of science sink into corruption
and debt
Adam Curtis (BBC) - Pandora's Box: The League of Gentlemen (1992) Forty years ago, a group
of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had
foolproof technical means to make Britain great again. This film tells
the saga of how their experiments led the country deeper into economic
decline
Mark Thomas - After School Arms Club This special edition of Dispatches puts the arms trade under the spotlight, asking how easy it is to broker arms. Working his way through a spider's web of vast and, in some cases, archaic legislation, Thomas unearths a series of dangerous loopholes, inconsistencies and, even more shocking, simple omissions that would have the most avaricious arms broker salivating with glee. Read this
important document, it relates to the current crisis in Sudan download
The Pope and the Mafia Millions - Redback Films for Sky Television Italian
banker Roberto Calvi was found dead in 1982 in London. Known as God's
banker for his links with the Vatican, Calvi was the chairman of Banco
Ambrosiano and a central figure in a complex web of international
fraud. Did the P2 masonic lodge arrange to have him silenced? download
A BBC report broadcast on 14 July 1982 with some background to the Calvi case stream
BBC - The Mayfair Set Four-part
series that looks at the rise of business and the decline of political
power. Adam Curtis reveals massive corruption of the British government
by corporations and the global markets
part one - Who Pays Wins stream download
part two - Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V. stream download
part three - Destroy the Technostructure stream download
part four - The Twilight of the Dogs stream download
BBC Panorama - Britain's Heroin Fix Jane Corbin travels through
Afghanistan to find out why opium production is out of control. She
talks to farmers to discover why the opium crop has risen twenty-fold
since the Taleban cracked down on it virtually eradicating it in 2001.
The smugglers get off scot-free and powerful offficials within the
government take their cut of the drug trade. DynCorp couldn't possibly
be involved, could
they? stream download
Eugene Jarecki – Why We Fight What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd & intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions stream real player
seven minute promo stream real player
Democracy Now - Interview with John Perkins Former respected member
of the international banking community John Perkins, describes how
he helped the US cheat third-world
countries out of trillions of dollars
Timewatch for BBC - Banking with Hitler The US Secretary of the
Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, began investigating Nazi finances 60 years
ago and found Allied banks, including many British and American high
street names, who continued to do business with Hitler's Germany throughout
the war download
BBC Panorama - The Dollar a Day Dress Panorama
travelled the world to create "The dollar a day dress" -
a symbol of how the world trade system harms the poor. Steve Bradshaw
travelled from the Sahara to the Andes to discover some of the harsh
truths about free trade and its impact on the developing world download
Guerrilla News Network - Crack the CIA A short film about the CIA and how they are involved in drug trafficking stream
Gary Webb - In his own words A tribute to the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who broke the story of the CIA's involvement in the importation of cocaine into the US. Webb died in December 2004 from self-inflicted gunshots to the head
NBC Dateline - CIA drug trafficking - Contra connection News special that examines the connections between the CIA and the Contras. Features Ricky Ross, Cele Castillo, John Kerry and Gary Webb right click 'Save Target As...'
Independent Media Center - Breaking the Bank An account of the April 2000 protests against the IMF and World Bank. Looks into the issues behind the protests such as IMF/World Bank policies & international militarism, ecologically devastating development projects, food production and poverty within the First World
Phenomenon - The Lost Archives: Monopoly Men The Federal Reserve may be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil, its real business remains to be discovered stream
The Money Masters – How International Bankers Gained Control of America An absolutely mind blowing
film that covers
the history of money and banking systems throughout Europe and America.
It shows how a small group of men control countries through a corrupt
system of finance and central banking, to enslave and oppress humanity part 2
Ludwig von Mises Institute - Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve Another film exposing the joke that is 'fractional reserve banking'. Concise, only 42min
Madcow Productions - Masters of the Universe Daniel Hopsicker investigates international banking and the Bilderberg group stream download
VPRO Tegenlicht – The Iron Triangle: The Carlyle Group Exposed Just what exactly is this criminal cartel up to? (has short intro in Dutch) stream download
VPRO broadband links here and here
Yorkshire Television & The Discovery Channel – Conspiracy of Silence US government child sex
abuse, drugs and yet another cover-up stream download stream/download
G Edward Griffin - the Capitalist Conspiracy How capitalism financed communism and the role played by international banking stream or download
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