IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

BANANAS UNPEELED 2006
Investigates the social and environmental issues facing banana plantation workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. Part of Oxfam's "Banana Pack Edition", an international campaign for a fair and sustainable Banana industry. Oxfam UK, 2006. 26 min

This film comes with a booklet with information on the history of fair trade, case studies from banana producers, and suggestions for taking action. For more information:
http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?
K=O2006012511414977&m=59&dc=65&sort=sort_date/
d&mw=2&st_01=fair%20trade&sf_01=keyword

BLACK GOLD
Looks at western world's obsession with coffee and the damaging consequences this has on the people who produce it.  Produced by Mark Francis and Nick Francis, 2005. 77 min

Through the story of coffee, from Ethiopian bean to Starbucks' cup, we meet coffee drinkers, tasting experts, baristas, and coffee traders and visit the sweatshop production lines, tasting laboratories, auction houses and roasting plants around the world. At the center of the story is Tadesse Meskela's fight to save his Ethiopian coffee farmers from bankruptcy- taking on not just the coffee industry, but also the world trading system.
For more information:
http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/

THE COFFEE-GO-ROUND
Investigates why coffee-producing countries like Ethiopia are facing economic disaster even as the demand for coffee increases worldwide, directed by Joost de Haas, 2004. 26 min

Part of the Life series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals, this film visits Ethiopia, the cradle of coffee cultivation, and speaks to players in the international coffee trade to find out how individual coffee growers can survive the boom and bust of the global coffee market.
Appropriate for classroom use: grades 7-12.
For more information:
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/l4cof.html

FAIR TRADE CERTIFIED
Focuses on Fair Trade certification and discusses the various benefits of the label, produced by Kristan Almgren, 2004. 10 min

Fair Trade touches millions of farming families in 48 developing countries, helps business in 19 countries increase their profits by offering socially responsible products, and empowers consumers to vote with their dollars for sustainable and excellent tasting food products.
For more information:
http://www.mediarights.org/film/fair_trade_certified.php

GROUNDS FOR ACTION: THE MAYA VINIC COFFEE COOPERATIVE IN CHIAPAS, MEXICO
Travels to Chiapas, Mexico to highlight the importance of Fair Trade coffee, distributed by Global Exchange, USA, 2004. 20 min

This video follows the path of a coffee bean, which originates from the Maya Vinic coffee cooperative in the Mayan highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, from the crop to the cup.
For more information:
http://store.gxonlinestore.org/grounds4action.html

ISLAS HERMANAS
Celebrates a 13 year relationship between the communities of Bainbridge Island/Seattle and Ometepe Island in Nicaragua, directed by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young, produced by Moving Images, US, 2000. 28 min

Shade grown organic coffee, produced on Ometepe, is imported to the U.S., and profits are returned to Nicaragua to fund clean water and school building projects. Each year Ometepe families welcome Bainbridge High students into their homes for two weeks. An enterprising third grade class on Bainbridge creates and sells calendars to support community projects on their sister island. In an era of many negative impacts of globalization, this program (28 min.) conveys a positive story of international friendship.
Appropriate for classroom use: grades 7-12.
For more information:
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/islas.html

MIRAFLOR COFFEE CO-OPERATIVE
Features the Miraflor Farmers Coffee Cooperative, produced by Scott Braman, Katie Milligan, Jared Seltzer, and Dave Tilford for the Center for A New American Dream.

See how this farmers cooperative empower themselves, banning together to grow organic, shade-grown coffee at fair trade prices.
Watch on-line:
http://www.newdream.org/consumer/coffee.php

PLANET WORK (PART I)
Features Fair Trade coffee success stories, part of the Livelyhood series produced by The Working Group, 2001. 60 min

The film follows the caffeine high road from a Fair Trade collective in Guatemala to Green Mountain Coffee of Vermont, one of 91 coffee roasters in the U.S. certified to sell Fair Trade coffee.
For more information and teacher's resources for high school grades:
http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/planetwork/surviving/fair.html

SPILLING THE BEANS
Explores the Cocoa Trade in Ghana, produced by Oxfam UK, 1999.

This video examines issues of Fair Trade through the case study of cocoa farmers in Ghana. "East Enders" actor Des Coleman meets the people who rely on Fair Trade and finds out why it is important to them. The video comes with a teacher's booklet, containing background information and pupil activity sheets.
For more information:
http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/
display.asp?K=183299629151000

VICTIMS OF CHEAP COFFEE
Tells the story of the worldwide coffee crisis, produced by Pertti Pesonen, 2004. 54 min

Collapsing prices on the world coffee market have thrown millions of growers around the world into poverty. The price farmers receive for coffee is at its lowest in over thirty years. Coffee plantation owners are bankrupt and the workers are starving. Filmed in Nicaragua and Vietnam, the film describes the human consequences that the collapse of coffee prices has caused in producer countries.
For more information:
http://www.mediarights.org/film/victims_of_cheap_coffee.php