Seven Revolutions

* Filmed: February 2006 * Running time: 16.18 minutes * Description: This talk describes current issues related to global climate changes. His talk has a good deal of humor and is quite entertaining. He provides practical ways to reduce the effects of global climate change. * Rating: Very Good * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources

* Released December 2008 * Running time: 84 minutes * Description: This is a powerful documentary of the current state of freshwater ownership, privatization and distribution around the world. The film discusses the conflict between "predatory" corporations and engaged citizens over water rights and usage. For example, it discusses how companies like Coke and Pepsi use of water in India and Nestles use of water in Michigan for bottled water. This film also documents water wars in Bolivia, privatization in Africa, and issues of pollution of freshwater around the world. It promotes lively and emotional discussion in class. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources, Technology, Economics, Conflict.

* Released February 2007 * Running time: 240 minutes * Description: China from the Inside is a series of four documentaries that survey China through Chinese eyes to see how history has shaped them and where the present is taking them. Episodes include Power and the People which deals with the governance of China, The Women which talks about the past and future for Chinese women, Shifting Nature, a look at China's environmental challenges, and Freedom, an exploration of China's conflict between personal freedom and governance. Produced in 2006 with 240 minutes on one DVD. Description from web site at http://www.shoppbs.org/ Video available for $30. * Rating: very good * Used outside class as optional learning activity; related to several revolutions

* Filmed: February 2008 * Running Time: 4:03 * Description: This talk gives a short description about how Function MRI and neuroimaging techniques will soon enable us to control a greater part of our brain and could replace, in part, the need for psychotherapy and drugs for depression and pain. Has a good "future" feel to it. * Rating: Very Good (It's short so it good for showing during class) * 7-Revolutions: Technology

* Filmed: August 2006 * Running Time: 8:48 * Description: A short lecture demonstrating cutting edge technology for humancomputer interface showing an innovative touch screen. This is an interesting example of the future of technology. * Rating: Very Good * 7-Revolutions Section: Technology

* Released June, 2006 * Running time: 98 min * Description: Why We Fight features interviews and observations by experts on the military, including Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, and Dan Rather. It begins with the prophetic speech by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning of the rise of the "military industrial complex." The film discusses the forces - political, economic, and ideological - that drive us to fight against an everchanging enemy? This film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Although it brings in experts from a number of different ideologies, the film does tend to have a left leaning viewpoint on the military and war. * Rating: Very good. * 7-Revolutions Section: Conflict

* Released July 2002 * Running time: 360 minutes * Description: This three-part, six-hour documentary focuses on the history and impact of the new global economy, explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance without ever causing a loss of consciousness for the viewer. Segments include the history of economic thought, deregulation, and consequences of globalization. Interviews with several world leaders are featured.

* Filmed: February 2006 * Running time: 19.50 minutes * Description: This talk describes the changes that have occurred and are predicted to occur in wealth distribution, fertility rates, population growth, and health within and between countries. Hans Rosling displays statistics using extremely interesting and unique graphics of changing trends. He breaks down several myths relating to difference between economically less developed and more developed countries. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Population, Economic Integration, Technology

* Released 1999 * Running time: 60 minutes * Produced by Berkeley Media and available through their website http://www.berkeleymedia.com/ * Educational discounts are available; be sure to ask. A review quoted on their site says: "This film manages, miraculously, not to fall into the simplistic trap of equating population growth with abstract numbers that count up doom and disaster. Rather, it reminds us that this is the most human of all subjects, and its future depends above all on the human lives of young women, who live in many different circumstances in many parts of the earth. It depicts these young women, appropriately, as looking ahead to lives very different from those of their mothers -- lives at a global turning point toward lower birth rates and population stabilization." -- Donella Meadows, Prof. of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth Univ.

* Released 1998 * Running time: 106 minutes * In this science fiction film, being genetically engineered is an asset while those naturally born are considered flawed. It is part thriller, part futuristic drama and cautionary tale.

* Released: September 2008 * Running time: 103 minutes * A phone sales manager must travel to India to train operators and his own replacement.

* Filmed: March 2008 * Running time: 27.54 minutes * Description: In this talk, Al Gore updates his thinking on laws, policies and global efforts necessary for environmental challenges including global climate change, acid rain, etc. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources

* Originally released November 2006 * Running time: 96 minutes * Description: Former Vice President Al Gore presents a compelling look at the state of global warming in the fascinating and startling documentary. Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change in the most talked-about documentary of the year. An audience and critical favorite, An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don't act now. Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, always fascinating. In the end, An Inconvenient Truth accomplishes what all great films should: it leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired. Description from http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthedvd/ and from amazon.com, where it is available for $16 * Rating: excellent; used inside and outside class; directly related to climate change topic within "resource management" revolution

* Released March 2007 * Running time: 110 minutes * Based on the 1993 novel by P.D. James, the movie is a cautionary tale of potential things to come. Set in the crisis-ravaged future of 2027, humanity has become infertile, immigration is a crime, refugees are caged like animals, and the world has been torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism, and political rebellion.

* Released June, 2004 * Running time: 120 minutes * Description: This documentary discusses how countries such as, Africa, India and Japan are facing different problems related to their current and changing population demographics. It provides a number of good graphics (population pyramids) and statistics, but also relates these issues to individual, very personal, stores. The film discusses birth control and women's rights in India, how HIV/AIDS in Africa has resulted in tragic cases that change the role of extended Draft 78 families, and how modernization has caused dramatically decreased fertility rates in Japan. * PBS.org has a great interactive site dealing with this issue: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/ * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Population

* Filmed: August 2006 * Running Time: 17.38 * Description: Nicholas Negroponte discusses his work to provide cheap ($100), portable, self-charging laptops to developing countries. He talks about how these laptops can change education and ultimately reduce poverty. * Rating: Good * 7-Revolutions Sections: Technology, Information Processing.

NOVA - Car of the Future: Engineering for the Environment * Released April, 2008 * Running time: 54 min * Description: This documentary is hosted by the radio hosts for NPR's program, Car Talk. The hosts Tom and Ray visit several manufacturers and entrepreneurs who are creating more efficient, eco-friendly cars, such as new versions of hybrids, hydrogen fuel cells, and electric cars. The hosts add some humor that makes the documentary more enjoyable for students, while discussing serious issues. * It can be viewed in six different parts at: PBS.org - specifically: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/program.html * Rating: Very good * 7-Revolutions Section: Technology