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Summary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INS

Summary: This edition of Frontline investigates the causes of the 2008 economic meltdown, the worst American financial crisis in 70 years, and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: All of the measures by the feds to stem the tide in the financial meltdown have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. national debt. This episode of Frontline reports on how this debt constrains and challenges the Obama administration and on the growing chorus that, without fiscal reform, the U.S. government may face a debt crisis of its own in years to come that would make the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: Investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the Republican Party and crack down on immigration.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ZER

Summary: This edition of Frontline takes viewers inside the iconic Abu Ghraib prison and investigates the path that led to torture techniques being used against Iraqi detainees there as well as prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Through interviews with policy makers, government interrogators, and interrogation subjects, this video examines a policy born out of fear and anger and tracks...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: The promise and perils of AI; from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the US and China. A new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV IN

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