Film Title
Date
Description
“Harry Potter & The goblet of Fire”
Mexican culture mixes with
Anglo. The scene where Berkley
comes home for the grape harvest
depicts old vs. young generation
differences.
The scene where Waverly
introduces her fiancé to her parents
for the first time illustrates
Chinese/Chinese American culture
colliding with Anglo culture.
The scene where they are invited
to eat a meal involving Monkey's
Brains and a mysterious soup with
the Maharaja.
Some clips within this movie show
difficulties in cross-cultural
interaction because of language
and culture differences.
The scene that shows Owen
Wilson’s character in Bosnia with
a rap shirt on illustrates cultural
convergence.
The scene where Hogwarts'
students first meet and ridicule
Beauxbatons and Durmstrangs.
“James Bond – You only live twice”
James needs to learn how to
interact with Japanese and Chinese
culture.
"A Walk In the Clouds"
1995
"Joy Luck Club"
1993
“Indiana Jones & Temple of Doom”
1984
"The Gods Must Be Crazy"
1980
2001
"Behind Enemy Lines"
2005
1967
1996/2004
Crash
“The Spanish Apartment” (USA) (“L'auberge
espagnole” is the original title)
2002
"La Ley de Herodes"
1999
Explains how the US is not a
homogenous culture.
The basis is a group of
international students in the
Erasmus program who share a flat.
Explores stereotypes. An Italian
and a German share a room. One
side is tidy; the other side not.
The exercise of power and
corruption and apparent within the
cultural differences. They are also
comic in their attempt to show the
differences.
1991
"The Japanese Version"
"People Like Us"
"American Tongues"
1999
1988
This depicts how the Japanese
Interpret American Culture.
This shows class differences
Shows a vast array of American
Cultures
It depicts nicely multicultural
issues within the British society
About American – Japanese
differences in the context of police
work
Some powerful scenes as the hotel
operator tries to keep the hotel
open during a terrible time.
Social class differences.
“Bend it like Beckham”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286499/
“Black Rain”
2002
“Hotel Rwanda”
2004
“Erin Brokovich”
2000
“The interpreter”
2005
“Gung Ho”
1986
“Ray”
2004
“ A Year in Provence”
1993
English vs. French cultures.
“Rising Sun”
1993
American Vs. Japanese Cultures.
Shogun Series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080274/
“Out of India”
1980
Neat descriptions of European vs.
Japanese cultural differences
About the Indian Institute of
Technology’s graduates.
“The New French Revolution Summer”
2004
About Muslim’s population in
France.
“Top Ten %”
2005
About Texas’ college admissions
rule
1989
2005
“Imported from India”
2003
“Echo Boomers”
October 2004
All kinds of trust and
communication opportunities
across not only cultures, but
political orientations.
Expatriate adjustment and
Japanese vs. US business practices
Shows the wage difference
between modern culture and older
African ones.
About the Indian Institute of
Technology’s graduates.
A good analysis of this generation.
“Sir Howard”
“The Look”
“Working 24/7”
The Millenials are Coming.
Star Trek series
“Star Trek”
“Star Trek Next Generation”
“Deep Space 9”
“Babylon 5”
January 2006
December
2003
April 2006
November
2007
1966
1987
1993
1994
Star Trek Next Generation
“Darmok” Episode
About Abercrombie & Fitch’s
discrimination problems.
About being connected and
working longer hours as a result of
new developments in IT.
A representation of the challenges
for business to incorporate
members of this generation into
the process and making them
productive.
They all have a Space Stations and
characters that are from different
cultures and species working
together.
2005?
Involves an encounter by the
Enterprise crew with an alien race
with whom they cannot
communicate despite the fact that
the aliens are speaking the crew’s
language
The sociologist has to learn how to
communicate with another race
entirely, and do so despite their
fear of writing.
The episode where Micheal
attempts cross-cultural training.
December
18th 2008
A quick funny clip that represents
a difference in language and how
issues can arise based on language
differences.
“Stargate”
1994
“The Office” series
About the British Sony CEO, who
does not know the culture very
well and doesn’t speak the
language either.
YouTube Clips
German Coast Guard
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bmizveWpKOk
McDonalds Chinese Commercial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vntnlfnXr7s&NR=1
USA Misunderstanding
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nfVQteTExyM
The American Handshake
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yDhXD25fmMo
Japanese Story “Rude Introduction”
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8UPP9cTQ5Ps
May 30
2007
March 13th
2007
Part 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx4yCMQ2K
Xo
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx4yCMQ2
KXo&feature=related>
Part 4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5cCFvFKT4
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5cCFvFKT
4&feature=related>
Part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcO0Ah64rM
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcO0Ah64r
M&feature=related>
Illustrates how collectivism
cultural value is used in
advertising
This is a more practical example of
a misunderstanding between two
very close languages involving the
word “hmm”.
Dan Fishel in “The International
Student Experience” describes the
February 28th cultural differences from the US to
2008
the rest of the world. Specifically
the handshake.
This clip has a young Australian
women picking up a Japanese
th
July 20 2007 businessman. The difference in
what is appropriate is apparent.
A Class Divided
Part 1:
1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8gCJ4K4tnE
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8gCJ4K4tnE
&feature=related>
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWbxv4vlHe0
th
The famous blue-brown-eye
experiment by Jane Elliott. It
would enrich any class on
cross-cultural communication and
cooperation challenges and
prejudice. The first two parts are
about the experiment itself,
whereas the rest is a
discussion.
The Other Side of Outsourcing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQaHrcwKsoc
December
23rd 2005
Pangea Day
http://www.youtube.com/user/pangeaday
May 10th
2008
Allows students to see things in
different perspectives in a current
and lively manor.
Educational/Training Films
The “Mustang Jeans” segment is
about US. vs. Japanese business
deals.
DVD video supplement for Charles Hill's Global
Business Textbook from McGraw-Hill
“At the heart of the Bull”
Commercial training video about
cultural diversity
Commercial training video
“Making a good impression”
“Globally speaking: skills & strategies for success
in Asia”
Commercial training video
“Black Gold”
2006
“Brit’s Get Rich In China”
2007
“Mondovino”
2004
Clips to represent Shell in Nigeria,
which allows for a look at the
cultural differences within the
business world.
Anne Lawrence (DVD) ( atlawrence@aol.com)
International business practices [videorecording] :
hidden dimensions.
A movie about Fair Trade coffee
in Ethiopia. It shows a lot about
different ideological approaches to
"the market" and gives a view of
dealing with coffee farmers in
Ethiopia.
A documentary which is a perfect
example of cross-cultural
management as it plays out for
four British entrepreneurs with
starkly different approaches.
A documentary on the impact of
globalization on the world’s
different wine regions.
1997
Discusses three basic principles
underlying culture - information,
space and time, and their influence
on international business
negotiations.
http://ciber.msu.edu/Research/Video_Library_Cata
log.pdf
Lists other resources.