Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and IMF
Elizabeth Canner & Ashley Eames
30 minutes, 1999
Cost: $30.00
The devastation that Nicaragua has experienced due to Hurricane Mitch led many to call for the cancellation of Nicaragua's foreign debt — one of the largest per capita debts in the world. Deadly Embrace provides a clear analysis of the debt crisis, structural adjustment and free trade. It presents outstanding footage of people's lives and their struggle to survive, putting a human face on neo-liberal economic policies. Used as an organizing tool by hundreds of organizations and an educational resource by over a hundred universities, this highly acclaimed documentary will enhance any discussion on the topic.  
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Two Trevors Go to Washington
Ben Cashdan, Seipone Productions
34 minutes, 2000
Cost: $25.00
This movie is an insightful and humorous account of the April 16 IMF and World Bank meetings and protests, as seen through the eyes of two South Africans. In the film, South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel (then chairperson of the World Bank/IMF joint Board of Governors) calls for internal reform of these institutions. On the streets, Trevor Ngwane joins the protestors to call for immediate debt cancellation and an end to devastating policies promoted by the IMF and World Bank. The tale of globalization is told through contrasting perspectives and the intertwining adventures of the two Trevors.
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Breaking the Bank
Big Noise Films, Changing America, Headwaters Action Video Collective, JustAct, Paper Tiger TV, Sleeping Giant Productions
74 minutes,  2000
Cost: $15.00 for individual use, $75.00 for non-profit/community use
Breaking The Bank is a remarkable independent account of the April 2000 protests against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Drawing on the hard work of eight activist production groups and scores of volunteer videographers, this 74-minute documentary is filled with dramatic, inspiring footage from the streets of DC. Scenes of confrontation and harassment the police are intercut with the protests, puppets, and the passionate actions of thousands upon thousands of protestors.
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To Be A Woman
Visafric Productions, 1992
Structural adjustment programmes enacted by the World Bank in countries like Uganda, Zambia and Ghana are often hurting more than they help. Among the most vulnerable of affected populations are women. This film examines issues of debt and development through the stories of the women in these countries who are trying to survive structural adjustment.
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Life + Debt
Directed by Stephanie Black
86 minutes, 2000
Cost: $44.95
This searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry in Third World countries while substituting them with sweatshops and cheap imports. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted from her non-fiction book A Small Place, Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials, who see the reality of globalization from the ground up. Life and Debt exposes the detrimental effects of free trade and foreign debt on ordinary Jamaicans. On a very human level, the movie makes a compelling case for reexamining the sustainability of unfettered market competition in developing countries and the role of the IMF, World Bank, and WTO in promoting policies which are costing many ordinary Jamaicans their livelihoods while driving the country deeper and deeper into debt.
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A Closer Walk
Robert Bilheimer, World Wide Documentaries
85 minutes, 2004
Cost: $29.95
A film narrated by Will Smith and Glenn Close documenting the broad spectrum of the global AIDS experience and includes subjects and storylines that include people with HIV/AIDS from all walks of life – from children and orphans to those caring for them to activists, advocates and scientists.  The film’s basic themes remain the underlying causes of AIDS, the relationship between health, dignity, and human rights; and the universal need for action and compassion.  More than 50 women, men, and young people have been interviewed or profiled in the Uganda, South Africa, Haiti, Switzerland, India, Nepal, Ukraine, Cambodia, and various locations in the United States.
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Banking on Life and Debt
Maryknoll
30 minutes, 2000
Cost: $14.95
Takes viewers to three continents for reports on how World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies affect the lives of the people. In Ghana, touted as a World Bank model of success, poor villagers cannot afford necessary medicines. In Brazil, people eat from garbage dumps while crops are sold to pay off the world's largest foreign debt. In the Philippines, a woman heads a grass-roots coalition in the fight against paying the debt.
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Traversing Peoples Lives: How the World Bank Finances Community Disruption in Cameroon
Friends of the Earth International
24 minutes, 2002
In June 2000, the World Bank decided to co-finance the Chad Cameroon petroleum development project. According to the Bank, the project will be the first example of an oil exploration project that will directly benefit the poor. However, two years after construction has started,, communities living on the popeline route in Cameroon are facing disruption of their lands, impoverishment because of failed compensation plans, pollution of their lands, water resources, severe health problems and, in the case of the Bakola indigenous peoples, the destruction of the forests they depend on.
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