Commanding Heights: This is a PBS series on many aspects of economics in the twentieth century. The first program focuses on the ideological battle between communism and capitalism. The second program focuses on the changes that took place in China, India and Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. The final program focuses on the new era of globalization that followed the Cold War.
Game Theory: Introductory course on game theory delivered by John Fountain at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Econ 223 is a multi-disciplinarycourse at the University of Canterbury. (From CosmoLearning)
Inside the Meltdown: PBS Frontline documentary on the financial crisis in 2008-2009.
Big Sugar: Big Sugar explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels. (From Top Documentary Films)
Black Money: In Black Money, Frontline correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates this shadowy side of international business, shedding light on multinational companies that have routinely made secret payments — often referred to as “black money” — to win billions in business. (From Top Documentary Films)
Britain’s Bad Housing: But in this edition of Dispatches, reporter Andrew Gilligan investigates the private house builders charged with solving Britain’s chronic housing shortage. (From Top Documentary Films)
Crash: How Long Will It Last?: In the second half of this special two-part Dispatches, economist and author Will Hutton continues the definitive insider’s account of how Britain’s economy went from boom to bust.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room:
Alex Gibney’s documentary examines the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of this Houston, Texas-based firm, which for a time made its top officers wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, and all by engaging in business practices alleged to have been little more than a complex shell game. (From Top Documentary Films)
Fiat Empire – Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution
How the Banks Never Lose: As the credit crunch continues to leave Britain cash-strapped and high street banks report huge losses, Dispatches investigates who is responsible for the current crisis. (From Top Documentary Films)
How the Banks Won: Will Hutton investigates the banks and what they’ve done with our money. He discovers that while ordinary taxpayers take the pain, for the banks it’s largely business as usual. (From Top Documentary Films)
I.O.U.S.A. – One Nation. Under Debt. In Stress.: Patrick Creadon’s I.O.U.S.A. documents the efforts of two concerned citizens, former US Comptroller General Dave Walker and Concord Coalition Director Robert Bixby, to explain how AmPatrick Creadon’s I.O.U.S.A. documents the efforts of two concerned citizens, former US Comptroller General Dave Walker and Concord Coalition Director Robert Bixby, to explain how America racked up over $9.5 trillion in debt and what we can do to stem the tide. (From Top Documentary Films)
Maxed Out: James D. Scurlock’s virulently angry muckraking documentary Maxed Out examines the many problems associated with escalating U.S. consumer debt. (From Top Documentary Films)
MeltUp: The Beginning Of A US Currency Crisis: Examines the potential dangers of inflation in the U.S.
Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street: Quants are the math wizards and computer programmers in the engine room of our global financial system who designed the financial products that almost crashed Wall st.
The credit crunch has shown how the global financial system has become increasingly dependent on mathematical models trying to quantify human (economic) behavior. (From Top Documentary Films)
Santa’s Workshop: Inside China’s Slave Labour Toy Factories: SANTA’S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China’s toy factories. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages, and dangerous work places. Those who protest or try to organize trade unions risk imprisonment. Low labor costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment. (From Top Documentary Films)
Secret History of the Credit Card:
This film examines how the credit card industry became so pervasive, so lucrative, and so powerful as correspondent Lowell Bergman uncovers the techniques used by the industry to earn record profits and get consumers to take on more debt. (From Top Documentary Films)
Supermarket Secrets: Supermarket Secrets investigates whether the food on supermarket shelves is really as good as it looks, whether prices are as good as they seem and what happens behind the scenes in the production of supermarket food. (From Top Documentary Films)
The Ascent of Money: Professor Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world’s financial system. (From Top Documentary Films)
VPRO Backlight and Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad present this ‘what if’ scenario. What if the dollar collapses? Fiction meets facts in this 24 hour scenario. At 9AM a Singapore trader is ordered to sell a large amount of dollars, which sends off the enormous downfall of the dollar. (From Top Documentary Films)
The Diamond Empire: FRONTLINE examines how the great myth about the scarcity of diamonds and their inflated value was created and maintained over the decades by the diamond cartel. This report chronicles how one family, the Oppenheimers of South Africa, gained control of the supply, marketing, and pricing of the world’s diamonds. (From Top Documentary Films)
The Money Fix: Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. The Money Fix is a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar. (From Top Documentary Films)
The Supermarket That’s Eating Britain:
In The Supermarket That’s Eating Britain, Ben Laurance pieces together evidence that reveals the true potential of Tesco’s expansion plans. In two thirds of Britain, Tesco is already the dominant supermarket. (From Top Documentary Films)
The Take: In the wake of Argentina’s dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America’s most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former employees take action. (From Top Documentary Films)
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price: Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes a look inside the discount retailer’s empire in Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (From Top Documentary Films)
Bigger Than Enron: The meteoric rise and stunning collapse of Enron caused many to question why the corporate oversight system that was supposed to protect investors failed to sound any alarms about the company’s dubious finances. But Enron and Arthur Andersen turn out to be merely the tip of the iceberg. In the 1990s, more than 700 U.S. companies were forced to correct misleading financial statements as a result of accounting failures, lapses, or outright fraud. Together with Enron — the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history — these failures have cost investors an estimated $200 billion. (From Top Documentary Films)
From Khan Academy
Videos on how banks work and how money is created.
Videos on the causes and effects of the credit crisis/crunch.
Videos about currency exchange.
Discussions of economic topics and how they relate to current events.
Videos on finance and macroeconomics.
Videos on the Geithner Plan to solve the banking crisis.
Videos to help understand the bailout.
From Khan Academy
Valuation and Investing: Building blocks and case studies on the financial analysis and valuation of public equities.
Venture Capital and Capital Markets: All of the sources of funding (capital) for a business.
The Spill: PBS Frontline documentary on the BP oil spill.
Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story: Horizon reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves – a crisis that became America’s worst environmental disaster.
//The Persuaders//and //Merchants of Cool//: Are PBS Frontline documentaries on advertising and marketing.
The World's Greatest Money Maker - Warren Buffet: Warren Buffett is the greatest investor of all time. His decisions about buying shares and companies have beaten the stock market year after year and made him the richest person in the world – thought to be worth 37 billion dollars. Yet Buffett lives modestly in his native Omaha, in America’s mid-West, and runs his 150 billion dollar business with a staff of just twenty.
Evan Davis meets him to find out about his unique investment strategy and his eccentric lifestyle. (From Top Documentary Films)