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Commanding Heights Boxed Set

Price:  $59.95 Format: DVD » Add to Cart » Request Preview Access Catalogue Number:  WG0016DV ISBN number:  1578079373 Producer:  WGBH Language:  ENGLISH Grade Level:  9 - Post Secondary Country of Origin:  U.S. Copyright Year:  2002 Rights:  PPR 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.

Reviews:
"Every once in a rare while, there comes along a program that staggers us with the unrealized possibilities of television to challenge and excite the passive minds of its viewers while informing and entertaining them as well. Such an achivement is Commanding Heights, the stunningly ambitious, brilliantly successful three-part documentary... No more important program for making sense of our life and times has been seen on the air in at least a decade and probably a good deal longer." - The Washington Post