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Overview
- Genre
- Investigation, Human Rights, Foreign Worlds, and Science
- Synopsis
Part One of two parts. Part Two: For Export Only: Pharmaceuticals
Documents the "circle of poison" of banned and restricted pesticides we export for use on products we import: coffee, bananas, cotton, etc. "If you ever wanted to know how human beings behave in the absence of rules, in an open unregulated market, these films provide the answer."—Washington Post
For students and other viewers facing a world of globalization, free markets and deregulation, it documents shocking information about products exported to developing countries that are prohibited or severely restricted in the countries where they are made. The products are banned or restricted because they cause cancer, liver disease, central nervous system diseases, sterility and death.
- Treatment
- Show treatment
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 57 minutes
Credits
- Robert Richter ... Producer, Director, Writer, Reporter
- Jackie Leopold ... Associate Producer
- Chantal Bernheim ... Associate Producer
- Burleigh Wartes ... Cinematographer
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Richter Productions
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 1979-1980
- Locations
- Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, Bangladesh and Malaysia.
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 1980
- Festivals
- American Film Festival. Audubon International Environmental Film Festival, International Consumer Film Competition
- Awards
- American Assn for the Advancement of Science, Distinguished Science Reporting; DuPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award (TV's Pulitzer Prize)
- Distribution
- Producer was offered $1 million bribe to NOT distribute or telecast the documentary.
- Broadcast (Prod.)
- WNET-TV
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- English Subtitles
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