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- Season 1 1999-08-09
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- Season 26 2024-09-30
Season 26 Episode
- Season 8 Still Life With Animated Dogs
- Season 8 The World According to Sesame Street
- Season 8 Muskrat Lovely
- Season 8 Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
- Season 8 Democracy on Deadline
- Season 8 Two Square Miles
- Season 8 A Sad Flower in the Sand
- Season 8 Revolucion: Five Visions
- Season 8 Short Stack 2006
- Season 8 A Fish Story
- Season 8 Shadya
- Season 8 Beyond the Call
- Season 8 Twisted
- Season 8 Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
- Season 8 Motherland Afghanistan
- Season 8 Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
- Season 8 Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
- Season 8 Stolen
- Season 8 Race to Execution
- Season 8 China Blue
- Season 8 Black Gold
- Season 8 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Season 8 The Cats of Mirikitani
- Season 8 Sentenced Home
- Season 8 Knocking
- Season 8 The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
- Season 8 La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul
Independent Lens - Season 8 Episode 20 China Blue
6.90 60 minutes They live crowded together in cement factory dormitories where water has to be carried upstairs in buckets. Their meals and rent are deducted from their wages, which amount to less than a dollar a day. Most of the jeans they make in the factory are purchased by retailers in the U.S. and other countries. China Blue takes viewers inside a blue jeans factory in southern China, where teenage workers struggle to survive harsh working conditions. Providing perspectives from both the top and bottom levels of the factory’s hierarchy, the film looks at complex issues of globalization from the human level.
China Blue, which was made without permission from the Chinese authorities, offers an alarming report on the economic pressures applied by Western companies and the resulting human consequences, as the real profits are made—and kept—in first-world countries. The unexpected ending makes the connection between the exploited workers and U.S. consumers even clearer.
