Black Gold (Black Gold)
Directed by: Nick Francis, Marc FrancisCast list:
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Year: 2006
Genres: Documentary /
Runtime: 82 min.
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The film is a documentary about the coffee trade. It shows the efforts of several cooperatives in Ethiopia to get a fair price for their coffee, recognized as one of the best in the world, and the efforts of Tadesse Meskela, union representative, for a place in the world market. The coffee industry is highly profitable, multinational companies pocket more than 80,000 million dollars a year, which makes the coffee a profitable product worldwide, such as oil.
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Subjects: English language / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world / Economy / History /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / ecology, environment, sustainability / human geography / world of work, employment relationships / human rights /
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