Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
by Greg Barker, William Cran
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Actor: Barbara Castle, Milton Friedman, Newt Gingrich, Stephen G. Breyer, Tony BennDirector: Greg Barker, William Cran
Writer: Greg Barker
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Movie Reviews of Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Movie Review: Sheople entertainment and brainwashing
Summary: 2 Stars
I was waiting to read a review from someone with the basic understanding of who is truly in control of the world's economics. Propaganda at its' best here. Why did PBS hide the fact that ENRON was a major contributor to this series? Did they think that the sheople couldn't handle the truth? Though filled with facts, many are skewed. It is made for sheople entertainment and the dumbing-down of the masses. This is how governments brainwash even the most brilliant scholars from seeing the truth that is right in front of their noses! I spoke recently with an award-winning economist from Princeton University who refused to acknowledge that our Federal Reserve is nothing but a private banking cartel. Very scary.
If you can handle the truth, read G. Edward Griffin's `The Creature from Jekyll Island'. This book sheds the mystery of the world of central banking and currency manipulation, the reasons for which most Americans are currently being robbed of their wealth. The book will open your eyes and either lead you on a path to demand the truth or looking for a very deep hole to crawl back down into.
Summary of Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy confronts head-on Americans' critical concerns about the new interconnected world. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, this groundbreaking series explores our changing world-the great debate over globalization and the future of our society.Commanding Heights reunites the team that created The Prize- award-winning producer William Cran (From Jesus to Christ) and Daniel Yergin-and is the first in-depth documentary to tell the inside story of our new global economy and what it means for individuals around the world. Filmed on five continents, the powerful narrative combines stunning film footage with dramatic stories and extraordinary interviews with world leaders and thinkers from twenty different countries, including: Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and President George W. Bush's Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsey.
Commanding Heights dramatically captures the issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and shows how the battle over the world economy will shape our lives in the twenty-first century.
Special DVD Features Include: ? Access to the Commanding Heights Web site, including: ? An exclusive time map, which provides an interactive atlas of economic history ? Comprehensive transcripts from on-camera interviews, and biographies of the people who played significant roles in the development of the modern global market ? An online teacher's guide that provides suggestions for applications of the Web site in classroom instruction ? An excerpt from the companion book to the series ? A complete list of interview subjects included in the series ? Chapter breaks ? English audiotrack and subtitles ? On three DVD5 discs.
The history and impact of the new global economy are made clear--and compelling--in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. This three-part, six-hour documentary does an astonishingly thorough job of dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance without ever causing a loss of consciousness for the viewer. Part 1, The Battle of Ideas, chronicles the history of economic thought from the start of the 20th century and its socialist reforms right through the deregulation of the 1980s. Part 2, The Agony of Reform, explores the upheavals that such deregulation caused, focusing primarily on economic growth and gains and touching briefly on the wrenching consequences for the poor. Part 3, The New Rules of the Game, explores the consequences of globalization, including terrorism and the contagion of market collapse. The series makes good use of both large- and small-scale examples, and features interviews with several major world leaders. There is a slight teenybopper feel to The Battle for the World's Economy's admiration for today's celebrity economists, but the contagious enthusiasm is part of what makes the series so interesting. Big ideas are made extremely accessible to the average viewer (without condescension). Well worth watching. --Ali Davis
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