Learn Through Videos: Economics

This is a collection of links to lectures on economics and documentary films dealing with economic issues, which are made for a general audience. The lectures included provide an understanding of why economies succeed or fall, explore the fundamentals of economic history, theory and practice, or explain the issues that we experience everyday and need to understand. And also this includes documentary films that examine the nature of corporation or trace the origins of the political power structure.


Modern Economic Issues
Modern Economic Issues consists of 36 lectures explaining the issues that we experience everyday and need to understand, with economists' views of public policy-making.

Why Economies Rise or Fall
Why Economies Rise or Fall consists of 24 lectures providing an understanding of why economies succeed or fail.

Economics U$A
This explores the fundamentals of economic history, theory, and practice, including microeconomics and macroeconomics, through interviews with Nobel Prize-winning economists.

Inside the Global Economy
Created by an international team, this series offers a multinational perspective on how the global economy and market affect individuals, businesses, and industry.

The Ascent of Money
The Ascent of Money is a six-part documentary series presented by Niall Ferguson, examining the long history of money, credit, and banking.

The Corporation
The Corporation examines the very nature of the corporation - its inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures.

The Money Masters
The Money Masters is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
This film presents an unfavorable picture of Wal-Mart's business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of Wal-Mart executives.

I.O.U.S.A.
I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens.

Human Geography: People, Places, and Change
This combines economic and cultural geography to explore the relationships between humans and their natural environment, and to track the broad social patterns that shape human societies.

The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century
The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century teaches the geographic skills and concepts that are necessary to understand the world.

Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse
This is a four-part CBC documentary series written and directed by Terence Mckenna, telling the story of the bankers who crashed the world, the leaders who struggled to save it and the ordinary families who got crushed.

The Secret of Oz
The Secret of Oz is a 2009 documentary directed by Bill Still, about the systemically flawed debt-money system to which the United States and most of the world is currently enslaved.

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
This is a PBS documentary series that provides an understanding of globalization, world trade, and economic development, including the forces and ideas that have shaped the present global economic system.

Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World
This is a special one-hour edition of the Money Programme on BBC Two, which presents the definitive profile of Bill Gates as he embarks on his latest challenge: giving away the billions he's amassed.











Learn Through Videos - Economics