COMMANDING HEIGHTS

Details

• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy confronts head-on critical concerns about the new interconnected world. Based on the best-selling book my Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin and Joesph Stanislaw, this groundbreaking PBS series explores our changing world - the great debate over globalization and the future of our society.; ; Commanding Heights renuites the team that created The Prize - Daniel Yergin and award-winning producer William Cran (From Jesus to Christ) - and is the first in-depth documentary to tell the inside story of our new global economy and what it means for individuals around the world. Filmed in five continents, the powerful narrative combines stunning film footage wigth dramatic stories and extraordinary interviews with world leaders and thinkers from twenty different countries, including: Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, former USSR Presiden Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vincente Fox, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and President George W. Bush's Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsey.; ; Commanding Heights dramatically captures the issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and shows how the battle over the world economy will shape our lives in the twenty-first century.
• Cast: David Ogden Stiers, Tony Benn, Stephen G. Breyer, Barbara Castle, Milton Friedman, Newt Gingrich, Marc Merlin, Cecil Parkinson, Jeffrey Sachs, Joe Stanislaw, Ben Stein, Paul Volcker, Daniel Yergin, William Cran
• Director: William Cran
• Runtime: 6:00
• Company: PBS
• Media Format: Series