
Pres. Obama at G20 summit
April 2009: The G20 pledge $1 trillion to the IMF and World Bank. Learn about these powerful financial institutions in our critical investigation that aired globally but PBS wouldn't run because of "a perception of bias in favor of the poor."
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More about the system that has helped lead the world into today's global economic meltdown:
Hungry for Profit
Guns and Greed
Can Tropical Rainforests be Saved?
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For Export Only Pesticides
May 2009: Experts and officials from 150 countries start talks in Geneva on banning production of nine chemicals considered potentially dangerous and still used in farming and for other commercial purposes.
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For Export Only Pharmaceuticals
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A Plague on Our Children
May 2009: Dredging to remove PCBs in the Hudson River begins, decades after our prime time national telecast first exposed this public health menace created by GE. A Wall Street Journal editorial at the time questioned Richter's patriotism because of this investigative documentary.
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2008 National Emmy
Awarded to Robert Richter and Sheila Nevins for "exceptional merit in non-fiction filmmaking" as Executive Producers of the HBO version of The Last Atomic Bomb.