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McLibel

The worst public relations disaster imaginable.

How could such a big company be so stupid?

WALL STREET

Wall Street I and Wall Street II show the excessive Wall Street stock market greed that led to brokerage firms developing sub-prime mortgages sold to foreign governments, investors and even retirement funds world wide. The banks, brokerage houses and insurance companies backed the sub-prime mortgages.

As the real estate market bubble burst and the sub-prime [...]

EAT A BOWL OF TEA

This movie is about pressure and motivation.

A study in culture bridging, including … a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the “dream” of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social bifurcations.

What did you learn from this movie?

HOTEL RWANDA

Black on Black violence in Africa

What did you learn from this love story?

WAR OF ROSES

This movie is about lust, marriage and divorce.

The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. [...]

DISCLOSURE

When a woman is in a position of authority she can be just as oppressive as a man in authority. Sexual harassment is about power, not sex.

COACH CARTER

This movie is about accepting responsibility for your own education and not blaming your school, school leaders, teachers, environment or parents for your own faults.

COACH CARTER tells the inspiring true story of controversial high school basketball coach making headlines for his emphasis on the importance of academics over athletics

What did you learn from [...]

GUNG HO

This movie is about cross-cultural relationships.

Western conflicts with Japanese culture. When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.

What did you learn from this movie?

UNBELIEVABLE!

FREE CHOICE ENGLISH MOVIE LIBRARY

This movie library consists of 850+ English movies and 60+ cartoons, all with English subtitles or no subtitles but absolutely none with Chinese subtitles. This is a second language (English) acquisition library. It is in lieu of a preferred book library because no Chinese university library is ever likely to [...]

WORKING GIRL

This movie is about Intellectual property Protection.

What did you learn from this movie?

STUDENTS’ LACK OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AWARENESS

Martin Wolff

Sun Yat-sen University

INTRODUCTION

Intellectual Property Protection remains a hot topic in China. The west applies constant pressure on China for more enforcement and China responds with increased enrollment in [...]