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The New Age of Walmart: Go Back Inside the Controversial Powerhouse (2009)

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CNBC's David Faber takes you back inside the biggest company in the world for an all-new, unprecedented look at the retailer. ...Since CNBC first took viewers inside the controversial powerhouse, Walmart has encountered an onslaught of lawsuits, intense criticism and a plummeting stock price, resulting in a time of tumultuous change and re-invention for the company.

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01:05
The New Age of Walmart: Go Back Inside the Controversial Powerhouse

Frontline: Cyber War! (2004)

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The Slammer hit on Super Bowl Sunday. Nimda struck one week after 9/11. Code Red had ripped through the system that summer. Moonlight Maze moved from the Russian Academy of Science and into the U.S. Department of Defense. A new form of warfare has broken out and the battleground is cyberspace.

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High
Length: 
01:00
Frontline: Cyber War!

Freakonomics The Movie (2011)

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Freakonomics is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally best-selling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. The film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.

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High
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01:33
Freakonomics The Movie

China Blue (2005)

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Examines the conditions of a factory in Shaxi, China, where mostly young women workers produce blue jeans for the western market in the age of globalization. Illuminates the economic pressures applied by Western companies and their human consequences. China Blue takes a look behind the closed factory gates and gives the anonymous workers a face.

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High
Length: 
01:28
China Blue

Sidibaba

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In Sidibaba, players take on the role of Sidibaba and his friends who are searching for hidden treasure in a cave.

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ELA
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
45 min.
Sidibaba

Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills (2006)

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Students often ask why they need to learn things that seem irrelevant to their futures in the workplace. This program helps answer that question by exploring the connection between what one learns in school and what employees do at work.

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00:16
Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills

Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens) (2006)

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A teen with a job faces all kinds of decisions about how to use that paycheck: go out to dinner or save for a car? A new iPod or college tuition? Spring break at the beach or a long-term investment? Program introduces the concepts of money management and financial planning for the future in a fun, easy-to-understand manner.

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00:21
Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens)

Duck! Duck! Go!

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Bathtub rubber ducky racing has long been a popular sport. Every year rubber duckies from all walks of life train in bathtubs, spas and small ponds around the world to prepare for the annual Kenducky Derby, the premier bathtub ducky race. duck! duck! GO!

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Content Area: 
Math
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
20 min.
Duck! Duck! Go!

Kuruwitu: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2011)

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A traditional fishing community on Kenya's coast declares a no-fishing zone along their stretch of coastline in an effort to halt the total destruction of their marine resources, to bolster fish numbers and to create opportunities for marine tourism.

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01:00
Kuruwitu: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Roger & Me (1989)

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In 1989, Michael Moore, winner of 2002’s Best Documentary Feature Academy Award* and Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Bowling for Columbine, triumphantly burst upon the American moviemaking scene with Roger & Me, a hilarious, penetrating forerunner of the independent film movement.

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High
Length: 
01:30
Roger & Me

Going, Going, GONE!

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Can you keep calm while bids are rising? Experience the exhilaration of real life auctions!

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Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
20 min.
Going, Going, GONE!

Acquire

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This Sid Sackson classic has taken many different forms over the years depending on the publisher. Each player strategically invests in businesses, trying to retain a majority of stock.

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Business/Technology
Play Time: 
90 min.
Acquire

Hanabi

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Hanabi — named for the Japanese word for "fireworks" — is a cooperative game in which players try to create the perfect fireworks show by placing the cards on the table in the right order. (In Japanese, hanabi is written as 花火; these are the ideograms flower and fire, respectively.)

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Content Area: 
Science
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
25 min.
Hanabi

Ricochet Robots

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Ricochet Robots is less of a game and more of a puzzle, which explains why there's such an odd number of solutions possible. There's a four-piece modular board that forms a large room with walls spread around the board. There are also color-coded targets on boards.

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Content Area: 
Math
Science
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
25 min.
Ricochet Robots

Twin Tin Bots

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"The robot was advancing fast towards the base, loaded with crystals – but the opponent team's robot was nearing. 'Bzzzzt!' Lightning sparked briefly, and the Bot changed course to unload the crystal a few meters from his base, his programming slightly jammed by the shock wave.

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Middle
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Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
50 min.
Twin Tin Bots

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