AP Human Geography Movies
The following are possible movies/ documentaries we will watch through the year:
Which Way Home
"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants,
on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like
Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans, who are desperately trying to reach their parents in
the US.; children like Jose, a ten-year old El Salvadoran, who has been abandoned by smugglers
and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center; and Kevin, a canny, streetwise fourteen-year old
Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach the U.S. and send money back to her. These are
stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the children you never hear
about; the invisible ones
Who killed the Electric car
A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of
renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
World in the Balance
Is a Nova documentary that looks at the status of the world population and the consequences to
mankind at the current growth rate.
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Documentary about he people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.
PBS Home Video: The Merchants of Cool
Teenagers in America number more than 30 million and command over 150 billion dollars in
disposable income. They are exposed to over 3000 advertising messages in an average day. In
contrast to adults, teenagers respond to whatever is "cool", as determined by the trend-setters of
the moment. This documentary examines how businesses seek the ever-elusive "cool" and use it
to sell products to teens. Alas, once corporations find cool, it soon ceases to be so; this means
marketers are forever searching for new products and strategies to capture the attention of their
target audience. This documentary also looks at how real life and TV life are blurring together,
acting like a feedback loop to push popular teen culture towards more violent and sexual
behaviors.
****This PBS documentary has profanity. I will try and skip these scenes but I can not guarantee
it!!!
Walmart: The high cost of the low wage
This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of
families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in
California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents
bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.
Food INC
The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the
fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more
drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled
primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production
business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production
of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in
enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food
sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the
animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the
consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are
often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of
these negative consequences
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