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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2002–
  • 6h
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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (2002)
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The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.

  • Stars
    • David Ogden Stiers
    • Dick Cheney
    • Newt Gingrich
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    • Stars
      • David Ogden Stiers
      • Dick Cheney
      • Newt Gingrich
    • 17User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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      • 1 win & 4 nominations

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    David Ogden Stiers
    David Ogden Stiers
    • Self - Narrator…
    Dick Cheney
    Dick Cheney
    • Self
    Newt Gingrich
    Newt Gingrich
    • Self
    Lawrence Summers
    Lawrence Summers
    • Self - President, Harvard University
    Milton Friedman
    Milton Friedman
    • Self - Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
    Paul Volcker
    Paul Volcker
    • Self - Federal Reserve Board 1979-87
    Gordon Brown
    Gordon Brown
    • Self - Labor Finance Minister
    Tony Benn
    • Self - Labor Candidate 1945
    George Shultz
    George Shultz
    • Self - Professor, University of Chicago 1957-68
    Jeffrey Sachs
    Jeffrey Sachs
    • Self - Professor, Harvard University
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    • Self - Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
    Gary Becker
    • Self - Professor, University of Chicago
    David Young
    • Self - Conservative Minister 1984-89
    John Redwood
    John Redwood
    • Self - Prime Minister's Policy Unit 1983-85
    Daniel Yergin
    Daniel Yergin
    • Self - Co-Author, Commanding Heights
    Stephen G. Breyer
    Stephen G. Breyer
    • Self - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
    Charles Powell
    • Self - Foreign Affairs Advisor 1983-91
    Mark Garnett
    • Self - Keith Joseph Biographer
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    Drowning the Chickens
    Many scenes of processions of limousines coursing through the darkened streets of capitals around the world. Deeply informative nonetheless.

    The scene of drowning chicks in the aftermath of the August 15, 1971 wage-price freeze is specious. This propaganda did not originate in this film - the film repeats it as it was originally presented.

    But finding the males (roosters) among the hatchlings is an at-least-annual exercise in chicken farms everywhere. Since they don't lay eggs or produce the most-marketable meat, over 99% of the males identified fresh out of the egg are drowned (about 50% of the brood, of course). This routine activity was filmed and promoted at the time to publicize a reaction by poultry producers that they did not, in effect, make. Its presentation was pure spin.
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      • 2002 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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      • PBS (United States)
    • Language
      • English
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      • Az Occidens gazdaság-filozófiai dilemmái
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