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1) The jerk
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
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The U.S. government spends far more money every year than it takes in, thus increasing the national debt. To help balance the federal budget and pay for programs and services, should the government raise taxes on the richest one-percent of the population, or are the rich already taxed enough? (108 minutes.).
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We realize that we have no idea how to farm and ask our neighbor Pedro for advice. Working in the fields every day makes us think about what life as a subsistence farmer would be like. Pedro tells us about a tropical storm that swept through Guatemala and how he saw 60 percent of his onion fields destroyed in a massive landslide. How would a family who is already living on the edge ever recover from a natural disaster like this?
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Today, we are setting out on the most intense experience of our lives: to live in extreme poverty; on just {20}1 a day for 56 days. We're traveling from the U.S. to the small village of Peña Blanca in rural Guatemala. There are so many things we don't know about the next two months. What will we eat every day, how will we budget such a small amount of money, what will happen if we have an emergency?
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One day, we head to the bank in town to see if we can get a loan or open a savings account with our income of only {20}1 a day, and find that it's nearly impossible! Back in the village, we talk to our friends Anthony and Rosa about how they save and borrow money without using a traditional bank. Innovative tools, like microfinance loans and savings clubs, are helping them budget their money, but what extra risks do these tools force Anthony and Rosa...
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Revealing the secrets of success. Gain a unique insight into the minds of successful and inspiring business people with this access-all-areas pass into their glossy and fascinating world. Peter Jones, one of Britains most prominent entrepreneurs, questions the tycoons behind two of the UKs biggest brands, both with international profiles. Discussing their successes and failures, their strategies and techniques, Peter sets out to discover what makes...
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Cooking without a microwave or stove is harder than we thought! After eating just one bowl of rice and beans each day, we aren't feeling so good and Zach even passes out on the floor. Our neighbor, Rosa Solares, teaches us how she uses lard to make tortillas out of corn. Though we are now getting more calories every day, we still question whether this diet provides us and our neighbors with the nutrition we need to be healthy. Is this why Guatemala...
8) Status
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After finding that the closest source of water is a plastic pipe coming out of the side of a hill, we aren't sure if it is safe to drink. Two weeks later, Chris is lying sick and immobile on the dirt floor. We don't know if we can afford the cost of a doctor or medicine. We question the impact of not having clean water on our neighbors. How does this problem affect other impoverished people around the world?
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Karen Kelly, a charity-leader from Northern Ireland, raised about 10 millons pounds of aid and drove it to a Moldovan orphanage. This program reveals what she found on arrival. The children were all girls, many with serious illnesses, living in shocking conditions. From day one bureacracy hampers the aid effort - the orphanage director won't let any of the aid be put to use until an exhaustive inventory has been taken. The workers discover unused...
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In Britain today, more than six million of us employ domestic help in the form of cleaners - a job primarily done by the scores of immigrants arriving in the UK looking for work. What do the contents of our homes and our interactions with a workforce paid to clean up after us reveal about us? With access to cleaners and their clients, this documentary lifts the lid on what our cleaners really think about us. It also tells the story of an invisible...
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The South Side of Chicago has long been plagued with some of the highest crime rates in the nation, but a man of faith is trying to transform the area by focusing on the everyday needs of those who live there. Jeffrey Brown visits the neighborhood with Rami Nashashibi, founder of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, to see how his efforts are improving health and well-being.
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Colonialism remains an inescapable blight on the present, lingering in the toxic, internalized mythologies and stereotypes that have outlived the regimes that created them, says historian Farish Ahmad-Noor. Examining why these prejudices and narratives persist (and sometimes thrive), he suggests a multidisciplinary approach to reject cultural obsessions with romanticized history and prevent this nostalgia from perpetuating past oppressions.
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The second documentary in the collection is built around a custom that is thousands of years old: fishing. At present, about 65 million people in the Greater Mekong live directly from the fish the river has to offer. Fishing methods are of course different according to places and ethnic groups. Additionally, modern times strongly challenge the fishermen in the Greater Mekong. Torn between tradition and modernity, these men and women have to make for...
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