Videos and Other Media:
Globalization

An Act of Faith: The Phelophepa Health Train (c2000). Director: Toni Strasburg

Part 4 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. A group of health professionals spends nine months or each year touring the poorest and most remote areas of South Africa. With a full contingent of volunteer doctors, dentists, optometrists and health educators on board, the "good clean health train" delivers quality health care to deprived rural communities.

Africa: Challenges in the 21st Century (c2004)

Explores Africa's history and to what degree its colonial legacy continues to impact the continent. Examines the causes, effects and possible solutions to major problems, such as hunger and diseases like HIV/AIDS, and controversial international trade policies that continue to contribute to Africa's underdevelopment.

Bamako (2007) Director: Abderrahmnane Sissako.

Set in Mali, the film revolves around a trial that pits the people of Bamako against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Beyond the plains where man was born (1997)

This video is the story of both an individual and a continent as each confronts the staggering changes of the 20th century. It is the true story of Sayallel, a nomadic herdsboy, who leaves his Maasai community to attend school and gradually gain an new Tanzanian identity.

The Big Sellout (2006). Director: Florian Opitz

"Traveling throughout both the developing and industrialized world, [the film] brings us face-to-face with the architects of the reigning world economic order, as well as with the people bearing the brunt of their policies. Shows how international financial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank demand draconian cuts in public spending, the privatization of public services and market liberalization as the path to economic development" -- Container

The Cost of Living (c2000). Director: Toni Strasburg

Part 14 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This program examines why AIDS drugs are unaffordable in developing countries, using as examples Thailand and South Africa, two countries who have applied to use compulsory licenses and parallel importing -- practices agreed under World Trade Organization guidelines -- to make their own generic versions of anti-retroviral drugs to halt the AIDS epidemic in their countries. It also asks why anti-retroviral drugs still aren't included in the WTO's essential drugs lists.

The Debt of Dictators (2005). Director: Erling Borgen

Exposes the questionable lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world and reveals the impoverishment resulting from the debts incurred to multinational lending institutions by these dictators. The film takes viewers to Argentina, South Africa, and the Philippines, where they come face to face with those suffering from the sacrifice of essential social services in order to repay these illegitimate debts.

The Face of Decent Work (c1999). Directors: Miguel Schapira and Karen Naets

The face of decent work is an exposÈ of the world's most deadly professions and workplace hazards: mining, agriculture, factory fires, to name but a few. It shows primitive forms of labor that have remained unchanged in their methods for nearly a thousand years. It shows the victims of the pressure to produce in an increasingly competitive and global economy: ... from the world's deepest coal mine in India where men still extract coal by hand, ... to the charcoal fields of Brazil where families are enslaved in a hellish landscape of smoldering ovens, ... to the chemical factories of Africa where innocent children are scarred for life by the fallout of industrial disaster.

Globalization & Human Rights (1998). Producers: Rory O'Connor &am Danny Schechter

Documentary examining the clash between the trend of increasing economic globalization and international human rights advocacy. Investigates the impact of foreign economic influence on gold miners in South Africa, the petroleum industry in Nigeria, the collapse of the economy of Indonesia, child labor abuses in Thailand and the situation in East Timor.

Power house (1973)

This video focuses on the industrial aspects of South Africa. It gives a brief overview of what makes South Africa the powerhouse that produces half the industrial output of the Africa continent.

Regopstaanís Dream (c2000). Director: Christopher Walker

Part 17 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Twenty-five years ago, the Bushmen were evicted from the Kalahari by the apartheid government who claimed they were too westernized to cohabit with the wild animals in the National Park. This film which follows the story of Bushmen fighting to live on ancestral lands within the park, includes interviews with Bushmen, park employees, farmers and government officials each providing their own perspectives.