The Global Studies Collection

We live in a deeply interconnected world. With advances in technology have come cheaper transportation and faster communication, allowing for a tightly integrated world economy and a blending of the world's cultures. THE GLOBAL STUDIES COLLECTION brings together over 40 films that look at the process of globalization from many perspectives, including finance and the economy, labor and migration, the environment, and even tourism and human relationships.

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The Global Studies Collection includes the following titles:

China Concerto

An observational essay shot in the southwestern city of Chongqing, CHINA CONCERTO probes the uses of public spectacle in contemporary China.

dGenerate Films | 2012 | 50 minutes | 9-12, COLLEGE, ADULT

City Life

Explores Sao Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of globalization on people and cities.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

Democracy on Deadline

A survey of journalists working in various media and languages around the world, as they grapple with their relationships to government, and the dangers of speaking truth to power.

Icarus Films | 2006 | 114 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

Fat or Skinny?

The people of India are faced with a choice: indulge in a Western-style fast food diet, or embrace healthy and indigenous alternatives.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 29 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults

Fishing in the Sea of Greed

Documents the response of one fishing community in India to the 'rape and run' industrial-scale fishing that has begun to dominate their livelihood and decimate their environment.

Icarus Films | 1998 | 45 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult

Food or Fuel?

Kenyan farmer Moses Shaha journeys through the Tana Delta, where farmers are starting to grow jatropha, a biofuel crop.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 29 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults

Gringo Trails

A global survey of the impacts on cultures, economies, and the environment of the most powerful globalizing force of our time: tourism.

Icarus Films | 2013 | 79 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT

Lagos / Koolhaas

Renowned architect Rem Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City explore Lagos, Nigeria, interpreting the chaotic city in an innovative, surprising way.

Icarus Films | 2002 | 55 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

Let's Make Money

Erwin Wagenhofer's incredible odyssey tracking our money through the worldwide finance system.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 107 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

Near or Far?

The Nigerian Minister for Agriculture wants to ensure Nigerians eat food grown in Nigeria.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 29 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults

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