Black Gold is a 2006 documentary film about the international coffee trade and its ramifications for the farmers who grow coffee. It was directed by two British brothers, Marc and Nick Francis.Do you know where your latte comes from? Follow Ethiopian coffee co-op manager Tadesse Meskela as he travels the world seeking fair trade policies for his growers in the exploding international coffee market. This mesmerizing documentary tells the dark back-story of coffee, from the raw bean to your to-go cup.  

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Black Gold is a 2006 documentary film about the international coffee trade and its ramifications for the farmers who grow coffee. It was directed by two British brothers, Marc and Nick Francis.Do you know where your latte comes from? Follow Ethiopian coffee co-op manager Tadesse Meskela as he travels the world seeking fair trade policies for his growers in the exploding international coffee market. This mesmerizing documentary tells the dark back-story of coffee, from the raw bean to your to-go cup.   

Heroes from Working Man’s Death. (2006. 30 minutes) by Michael Glawogger 

In this stunning deconstruction of our conceptions of work, crawl alongside miners deep in the illegal coal mines of Ukraine to learn first hand what it’s like to do some of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

Fair Trade: The Story. (2006. 8 minutes) by Aaron Straight and Ian Jay 

This short documentary film circles the globe following the story of how your food gets from the source to your table through fair trade.  

Interview with Amartya Sen from “Nobelity” (2006. 8 minutes) by Turk Pipkin Amartya 

Sen (Nobel Economics Prize, 1998), talks about the power of reason to solve our global problems of poverty and overpopulation. This is the second a series of interviews we’ll bring you with Nobel Prize winners from the feature film “Nobelity”.