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Nov 19, 2013 · Day of the Falcon (also known as Black Gold and Black Thirst) is a 2011 drama film, based on Hans Ruesch's 1957 novel South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern A...
Black Gold: Directed by Jeta Amata. With Mbong Amata, Tom Sizemore, Vivica A. Fox, Hakeem Kae-Kazim. One local Niger Delta community's struggle against their own government and a multi-national oil corporation who has plundered their land and destroyed the environment.
Black Gold: Directed by Phil Karlson. With Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille, 'Ducky' Louie, Raymond Hatton. In the 1920s Texas, Indian farmer Charley Eagle is dreaming of winning the Kentucky Derby with his Black Hope horse but things change when oil is found on his land and the Black Gold colt is born.
As BLACK GOLD demonstrates, poor African countries are particularly dependent on coffee: Burundi, Uganda and Ethiopia derive more than half their export earnings from coffee alone. Making coffee production more sustainable, like Tadesse Meskela's co-operative is attempting to do, would grant small-scale family farmers, who produce 75 percent of ...
On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib adopts Amar’s two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee against invasion. Twelve years ...
Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more ...
Jan 31, 2012 · Early 20th Century- Arabia. Under the unforgiving desert sky, two warring leaders come face to face. The bodies of their warriors litter the battlefield. The...
