Research Guides: Political Science: Videos

Videos

Streaming
DVDs

Banana Wars: Global Fury Over A Humble Fruit
This documentary investigates the politically-loaded history of the banana trade exploring links between corporate power, Western governments, and developing nations that are heavily dependent on banana production as a result of colonial and postcolonial influences.
C-SPAN
Provides gavel-to-gavel coverage of the workings of the U.S. Congress without editing, commentary or analysis. Also covers a wide variety of public policy and political events from campaign stops to press briefings and panel discussions to author interviews.
Live Stream of U.S. Capitol (United States Senate)
The Living Room Candidate
Commercials from every presidential election since 1952
Welcome to Tehran: Rageh Omaar Inside Iran
Examines the Iranian capital by interviewing citizens as well as public figures. Reveals a nation full of anomalies and contradictions
Banana Wars: Global Fury Over A Humble Fruit
Explores the links between corporate power, Western governments, and developing nations that are heavily dependent on banana production as a result of colonial and postcolonial influences.

Burma VJ Reporting from a Closed Country by Anders Østergaard (Director)
Location: Media Collection (ask at Circulation for assistance) | Call Number: DVD 4208
2008 Danish documentary film. Using smuggled footage, it tells the story of the 2007 protests by thousands of monks against the repressive military regime in Burma.
Fair Game by Doug Liman (Director); Naomi Watts (Actor); Sean Penn (Actor)
Location: Media Collection (ask at Circulation for assistance) | Call Number: DVD 4382
2010 political drama film based on the autobiography of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose covert identity was exposed when her husband, retired Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a newspaper article challenging the basis for the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Lee & Grant: Generals of the Civil War
Location: Media Collection (ask at Circulation Desk for assistance) | Call Number: DVD 4352
Step behind the battle lines with generals on both sides of the Civil War as American Experience explores the military prowess and political ambition of Union victor Ulysses S. Grant and his Confederate foe, Robert E. Lee.
Promised Lands by Susan Sontag (Director, Actor)
Location: Media Collection (ask at Circulation Desk for assistance) | Call Number: DVD 4240
This film scrutinizes the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and brilliantly underscores the deepening divisions within the Jewish thought over the very question of Palestinian sovereignty.

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