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Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
This program focuses on the outrageously high price of spectacles. In this eye-opening report, CBC reporter Tom Harrington pits Canada's biggest chain stores against the leading online retailer, a company whose new business model is a total game changer. He also catches up with an industry insider who challenged the established players and paid a huge price for defying the status quo.
2) Lumberjacked
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Cameroon, the largest exporter of African wood to Asia and Europe, illegal and unregulated logging by foreign companies is posing a real threat to the country's most valuable economic and ecological resource.
3) U.N.Me
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Following the horrors of World War II, there was a strong desire for a better world in which peace would be maintained and human rights respected - the U.N was born. Now, more than 60 years later, the image of the UN has become severely tarnished. Documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz takes us on a brutal tour of a number of places where the UN has intervened. Through interviews with those involved and archive footage, we uncover facts about abuses and...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In PAY 2 PLAY, filmmaker John Ennis examines how corporations have taken over our democracy as he follows outsiders using their voice to change the game in American politics. He ventures through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of America's favorite game, Monopoly, and explores the underworld of Los Angeles street art in a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, the only independent member of the US Senate, about purchasing political power. It's a grave threat, he believes, not only to our electoral process but to democracy itself. Sanders is angry about what he sees as big money's wholesale purchase. He cites the mayoral election in Richmond, California where Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is running against a ticket backed by...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
It wasn't a hostile takeover or a run on the bank that destroyed Barings, one of Britain's most solid financial institutions. All it took was Nick Leeson, a 20-something trader operating in Singapore, to burn through more than a billion dollars and bring the company down. Of course, that was in 1995. Today, with increased regulations and super-sophisticated monitoring systems, Leeson's transgressions would never be allowed to happen. Right? Wrong-as...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
This program goes undercover to expose the secret tricks used in door-to-door sales of water purification systems - devices that can cost thousands of dollars, but which most people simply may not need. CBC reporter Tom Harrington investigates the dubious scare-tactics used to persuade people to buy.
9) Ricejacking
Pub. Date
[2014], c2009
Language
English
Description
At a time when the world food balance is once again under threat, this film sheds light on what will be the subject of future commercial wars: the control of agricultural resources. Rice feeds one in every two human beings on a daily basis, and as such is key to worldwide food security. The precious crop has the power to guarantee political stability or to topple governments. In spring 2008, the inhabitants of Port au Prince in Haiti cried famine....
10) Sweet Poison
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Half a trillion dollars have been spent on international aid in the last 50 years. It's an industry that's unquestionable and supported by the world's biggest celebrities including Bono, Bob Geldof and Angelina Jolie. But recently an increasing number of experts have begun to criticize the giving game. This documentary dissects the aid industry and reveals some difficult home truths about "Aid as Business" in the developing world.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Qatar's triumphant bid for the 2022 World Cup is under fire not just because of the FIFA corruption scandal. As Eric Campbell from Foreign Correspondent reports, the wealthy emirate stands accused of being a slave state through its harsh treatment of workers building its multi-billion dollar World Cup facilities.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
Almost everyone agrees that conservation is hugely important, but few dare to question the movement. In this film, reporter Oliver Steeds investigates the shortcomings of the planet's major conservation organizations. Traveling from Britain to Kenya, from Honduras to the States, he challenges those who often appear beyond reproach because what they do is "good," to take a long, hard look at their policies, practices and partnerships. He asks why some...
13) Equity
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A female investment banker, fighting to rise to the top of the corporate ladder at a competitive Wall Street firm, navigates a controversial tech IPO in the post-financial crisis world, where loyalties are suspect, regulations are tight, but pressure to bring in "big money" remains high.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
It was touted as a miracle pill: a narcotic pain reliever that could change the lives of people suffering from chronic pain, but with little risk of addiction. How did a little pill that appeared in 1996 become so big, so fast? In 1998, Canadian sales were just a few million dollars; twelve years later they had soared to
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which the adults in power have betrayed them, running is not enough and they must wage a resistance, using their collective...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
Using hidden cameras, CBC journalist Tom Harrington hosts this program in which trades-people are tested on their skills and ethics of home repair services. Among Canadian's top complaints: over-charging, suggesting or performing unnecessary work and shoddy quality.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Special Ops sniper Brandon Beckett is set-up as the primary suspect for the murder of a foreign dignitary. Narrowly escaping death, Beckett realizes that there may be a dark operative working within the government and partners with the only person whom he can trust, his father legendary sniper Sgt. Thomas Beckett. Both Becketts are on the run from the CIA, Russian mercenaries, and a Yakuza-trained assassin with sniper skills that rival both legendary...
20) Z storm
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Chinese
Description
A large financial fraud is attempted in Hong Kong where it is directed at the government and all the citizens are targeted for their tax money.
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