Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

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Starring: Ben Stein
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Type: DVD
Directed By: William Cran
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2002-07-30
Running Time: 360 minutes
Number of Items: 3
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.

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Primer on modern economics
This documentary is fantastic overview of the two conflicting economic models that have largely shaped the last century. Captialism vs. socialism, free markets vs. protected economies are explored thorougly. I highly recommend this for anyone who is interested in understanding the forces that have shaped world economies over the last century.

Commands attention
I dont purchase CD's or DVDs anymore. I think they are overpriced, and specially now that you can download almost anything, i find it difficult to spend my green in any DVD.

Then i read the reviews that this documentary had , based on the book. I thought the premise was really interesting. So i bought it, and i watched it. I didn't feel ripped off after, and i still watch it! (and in fact bought another set for my sister)

This is truly the best analytical documentary ever devised. It is such a piece of art, it stands on its own and has no other real similar.

I read other reviews and i concurr that sometimes it seems as if the analysis doesn't go deep enough. BUt that's the beauty of the narration. It never inserts its tilt or spin - it just tells you the facts and shows how things unfolded, only getting interviews to add color to the scene at hand but always letting the viewer come to its own conclusions.

I own this and Blue Planet. Once i buy Cosmos, i think i have all the DVD's i could ever need.

Extremely well done!!!
This is an excellent historical overview of how The Chicago Boys were able to influence the developed world away from Keynesian philosophies.

Astonishing!
I've never seen such a documentary on the battle of ideas over world economy in the post-war era.
I strongly recommend it, specially for college students and young voters around the globe.