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Foreclosure

Movies:

• FRESNO. A film about foreclosures, Fresno ...... and skateboarding.
  
• Capitalism, by Michael Moore, “features sequences showing people getting foreclosed and evicted”.

Special News Reports:

• Mortgage Meltdown. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL travels to ground zero of the mortgage meltdown — Cleveland, Ohio. Correspondent Rick Karr takes viewers to Slavic Village, one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in the nation when it comes to the spate of foreclosures caused by the subprime mortgage crisis. Aired Friday, July 18, 2008 on PBS. (20 minutes)

Current TV:

• Closing Costs: Face-to-Face with the Foreclosure Crisis. This documentary film short observes the consequences of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression through the eyes of residents in one of the country’s most affected cities - Fort Myers, Florida. The film follows the new “rapid response” foreman for the city’s code enforcement agency as he struggles to maintain abandoned properties and two long-time Fort Myers’ residents who have formed a neighborhood watch to protect their community from a wave of crime. Together, these characters are brought face-to-face with the foreclosure crisis and forced to deal firsthand with a new economic reality. (7 minutes)

 

 

Planning History

Movie:

• The 1893 Columbian Exposition. This Pinky Show documents a thorough overview of the 1893 Columbia Exposition. (18 minutes)