Movies & Videos

Should Economists Declare Conflicts of Interest?

Topics: 
Videos, Financial industry, Conflict of interest
Rating: 
3

January 22, 2011

Gerald Epstein

Study shows many economists who testify or write on finance do not reveal they work for financial institutions. (Interview: 10 minutes)

Gerald Epstein is codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and Professor of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He has published widely on a variety of progressive economic policy issues, especially in the areas of central banking and international finance, and is the editor or co-editor of six volumes.

Daniel Ellsberg: We Need Whistle Blowers

Topics: 
Videos, Government transparency, Freedom of the press, Wikileaks
Rating: 
3

January 24, 2011

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg: We Need Whistle Blowers

Daniel Ellsberg: There was no law against leaking the Pentagon Papers nor is there now against WikiLeaks. (19 minutes)


Biography

Daniel Ellsberg is a former US military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Steve Paikin interviews Terence Young, author of 'Death by Prescription'

Topics: 
Health Canada, Pharmaceutical industry, Videos, Regulatory oversight
Rating: 
3
Terence Young

Steve Paikin interviews Terence Young about adverse drug reactions

Terence Young's 15-year old daughter Vanessa suddenly collapsed and died after taking prescription medication for bloating. Young embarked on a quest to uncover the truth about why she died. Steve Paiken finds out what Young learned about the pharmaceutical industry and the regulatory oversight of this industry in Canada. (16 minutes)

Prescription for Disaster

Topics: 
Drug safety, Vioxx, David Graham, Movies, Pharmaceutical industry
Rating: 
3

Prescription for Disaster (1:32)

A documentary about drug scandals, featuring whistleblower David J. Graham's revelations about Vioxx...

This documentary explores pharmaceutical disasters, such as the approval of Vioxx (a drug that cost the lives of an estimated 60,000 people in the USA alone) and the incestuous relationship between the FDA and the drug companies. Features whistleblower David J. Graham, who exposed the Vioxx scandal.

Death of the Don: Organized Crime in Montreal

Topics: 
Organized crime, Videos, Quebec
Rating: 
3

CBC The Fifth Estate – January 31, 2011

The Rizzutos of Montreal seemed cast by Hollywood. For almost a century the Rizzuto family wrote the history of organized crime in Canada and made billions doing it.

Vito Rizzuto is the boss — the CEO of Canadian crime known as Montreal's Teflon Don. With his father and son — Nick Sr. and Nick Jr. — Vito built an empire on gambling, drugs and crooked construction contracts on huge public works projects.

Air safety: An Interview with Kirsten Stevens

Topics: 
Aviation safety, Transport Canada, TSB, Kirsten Stevens, Videos
Rating: 
2.5
Kirsten Stevens
Kirsten Stevens

Monday 30th March 2009.
Kirsten Stevens lost her husband in a floatplane crash in 2005. When the authorities failed to provide answers regarding what had gone wrong, she and the families of the other four victims embarked on their own investigation. What they learned shook their faith in the regulatory system and caused them to become vocal advocates for improved aviation safety. This is Kirsten's story in her own words. (41 minutes)

A Whistleblower Made Into A Hollywood Heroine

Topics: 
Whistleblowers, Movies, United Nations
Rating: 
2

July 30, 2011

In 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac had run into hard times. A police officer in Lincoln, Neb., who had recently lost custody of her daughters in a divorce settlement, she was looking for a new job that would give her the means to live near them.

When Bolkovac heard she could earn good money in a short period of time by becoming part of the U.N. International Police Force in Bosnia — run by a private British agency called DynCorp — she decided to sign on.

"On Expenses" drama: How the misconduct of UK MPs was exposed

Topics: 
Government ethics, Videos, Access to information
Rating: 
2

Heather Brooke, an American living in London, was writing a book about the Freedom of Information Act. In 2004, she approached the House of Commons about MP's expenses, and found her legitimate requests blocked repeatedly.

This entertaining drama follows one dogged and spirited individual over the most powerful institution in the country. In all the scandal of the MP's expenses, one story remains to be told and it is the best of them all: because there would have been no documents leaked to one of the leading UK newspapers, The Daily Telegraph - indeed no documents of any kind at all - had not one supremely determined journalist fought for five long years against the increasingly desperate attempts by the House of Commons to keep their expenditure secret.

Review: "Chasing Madoff": A hero by the numbers

Topics: 
White-collar crime, Movies, SEC, Harry Markopolos
Rating: 
2

Linda Barnard, Movies Writer – August 25, 2011

As the lights came up in the Varsity theatre after Chasing Madoff, the opening night film at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in May, a tall man in a rumpled tan jacket stood in front of the screen and uncomfortably received a standing ovation from the packed theatre.

The audience had just finished watching a story about him, Harry Markopolos, someone who could be described as the world’s most tenacious man. The 54-year-old Boston accountant and financial investigator spent 10 years struggling to make the U.S. government hear and act on his assertion that Bernie Madoff was a crook and running a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors.

24 'slaves' rescued from squalid UK camp

Topics: 
Videos, UK, Slavery
Rating: 
2

Jerome Taylor – September 13, 2011

Nine "modern day slaves" who were freed by police following a dawn raid on a Traveller site over the weekend have refused to co-operate with the investigation as detectives continue to unravel what they believe is one of the worst cases of forced labour in modern British history.

Bedfordshire police insist that they have dismantled a slavery ring operated by a "family-run organised crime" syndicate that forced vulnerable men to live in appalling conditions for little or no pay.

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