IS WAL-MART GOOD FOR AMERICA? (FRONTLINE)

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• Release Year: 2004
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio; the other, a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices.
• Cast: Will Lyman; Arun Rath; Sarah Childress; Martin Smith; Barack Obama; George W. Bush; Lowell Bergman; Peter Haydu; Jim Gilmore; Judy Woodruff; Charles Linshaw; John McCain; Steve Coll; Jeremiah Kissel; Peter Berkrot; Richard Clarke; Dick Cheney; Donald Rumsfeld; Bill Moyers; Bill Clinton; Will Le Bow; Lu Olkowski; Peter Baker; Dana Priest; Michael B. Gordon; Anthony H. Cordesman; Michael Delong; Dexter Filkins; David Kay; Jack Keane; Ryan Knutson; Douglas Rushkoff; James Bamford; Mike McNally; Thomas Ricks; Colin Powell; Michael Scheuer; Richard Kerr; Melvin Goodman; Ryan Lizza; John O. Brennan; Joseph Wilson; Lawrence Wilkerson; Newt Gingrich; Robin Parmelee; Michael McNally; Chris Dodd; Richard Armitage; Dan Balz; Hillary Clinton; Joe Nocera; Miles O'Brien; Najibullah Quraishi; Cory Scott; Barton Gellman; Michael Hayden; Jane Mayer; Paul Bremer; John Burns; Michael Isikoff; David Petraeus; Jesse Jackson; Gary Schroen; David E. Hoffman; John Kerry; John McLaughlin; Ron Suskind; J. Cofer Black; Leïth Koubba; Philip D. Zelikow; Charles Duhigg; Gary Berntsen; F. Michael Maloof; Vincent Cannistraro; Osama bin Laden; Marc Garlasco; Daniel Benjamin; Paul Pillar; Carl W. Ford Jr.; Thomas M. Gross; Andrew Krepinevich; Vali Nasr; Roger Wilkins; Jeremiah Wright; W. Scott Malone; Rush Limbaugh; Deborah Amos; Orville Schell; David Ogden Stiers; Paula Fredriksen; Karen MacDonald; Kanan Makiya; Al Gore; Tony Blair; Bob Woodward; George Bush; Larry King; Douglas Macgregor; Condoleezza Rice; Matt Bai; Mark Danner; Tom Daschle; Bradford Berenson; Richard Boucher; Elisabeth Bumiller; Adam Davidson; Tom Jennings; A.C. Thompson; Sabrina Shankman; Stephen Grey; Emma Schwartz; Phyllis Gordon II; Vladimir Putin; Ron Wyden; Glenn Greenwald; Muhammad Ali; Ewen MacAskill; Mohammed; Luke Harding; Mark Klein; Steve Casteel; Ben Rhodes; June Cross; Peter J. Boyer; Fred Durst; Louis Freeh; Uwe E. Reinhardt; Charles Gasparino; Robert Perito; Ryan Crocker; Peter W. Chiarelli; Ann McKee; Rajiv Chandrasekaran; John Rizzo; Barbara Bodine; Jackie Calmes; R. Alan King; Harvey Pitt; Mary Jo White; James Dobbins; Bob Graham; Clayton McManaway; Daniel Senor; Mowaffak Baqer Al-Rubaie; H.R. McMaster; Danah Boyd; Thomas X. Hammes; Robin Raphel; Jay Garner; Tyler Drumheller; Frank Miller; Jack Goldsmith; Paul Hughes; Rick Perry; Gary Anderson; James Risen; Bill Keller; Robert D. Blackwill; Chris Nowinski; Frederick Kagan; Muqtada al-Sadr; William Hix; Thomas Mowle; Maxine Waters; Kalev Sepp; Lawrence Kaplan; Donald G. Rose; Martin Luther King; Robert Parry; Robert F. Kennedy; Wendy Sakakeeny; Terry Neumann; Tony Neumann; Robert Nicholas; Claude Stanley Jr.; Claude Stanley; Jackie Stanley; Keith Stanley; Klaudale Stanley; Nicole Stanley; Andrew Neil; Janet Reno; Stephen Talbot; Jennifer Thompson; John Deyle; William Cran; Gil Edgeley; Vince Hadley; David Gwyn Harris; John Mangan; Lorna Meadows; Marilyn Mellowes; Dossy Peabody; Timothy Sawyer; James Spruill; Terry Waite; Joel Meyerowitz; F. Lee Bailey; Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.; Mark Fuhrman; Gil Garcetti; Ted Koppel; Mark Crispin Miller; Thomas Kean; Fran Townsend; Michael Sheehan; Diane Sawyer; Saddam Hussein; Ray Nagin; Dan Rather; Ayman Al-Zawahiri; Jim Leach; Amrullah Saleh; Hayat Ullah Khan; Nek Mohammed; Pervez Musharraf; Hedrick Smith; Lesley Karsten; Emily Lodish; Kit Bond; Greg Bukata; John Dingell; Rob Hunter; Steve Maher; Rex Tillerson; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; David Axelrod; Timuel Black; Will Burns; Cassandra Butts; James Clyburn; Charlie Cook; Mark Halperin; Gerald Kellman; David Kilcullen; Mike Kruglik; Kenneth Mack; David Mendell; Mike Mullen; Liza Mundy; Salim Muwakkil; John Nagl; Toni Preckwinkle; Pete Rouse; Bobby Rush; Janny Scott; Christine Spurell; Ben Wallace-Wells; Harold Washington; Jeff Zeleny; David Breashears; Ahmad Chalabi; Karen DeYoung; John Hambre; Paul Kern; Nabil Musawi; Todd Purdum; David Toomey; Thomas White; David Leigh; Joe Biden; Ofra Bikel; Karen Ignagni; John Cassidy; Barney Frank; Michael Greenberger; Jon Hilsenrath; Henry Kaufman; Paul Krugman; Mark Landler; Jeffrey Lane; Henry Paulson; Elizabeth Warren; David Wessel; Mary Howell; Frank Minyard; Michael Burgess; Atul Gawande; Sebastian Rotella; Erin Cole; Charles M. Sennott; William Arkin; Andrew Becker; Jordan Davis; Brian Manning; Chelsea Manning; John Negroponte; Russell Gannon; Jeff Seamster; Hannah Mintz; Ghaith Abdul-Ahad; Bill Mootos; Jill Rosembaum; Steve Fisher; Bernice Yeung; Anne Damon; Jonathan Jones; Daniel Sugarman; Dave Altimari; Alaine Griffin; Daniel Haar; Matthew Kauffman; Josh Kovner; Edmund Mahony; Shauna Grant; Jack Newfield; Ross Mcelwee; Helen Prejean; Martin Scorsese; Linden MacIntyre; Dan Spielman; Ric Esther Bienstock; Brittany Smith; Larry Lewman; Gary Oldman; Mrs. Abshir; Kip Kinkel; Chris Bury; Ernie Gray; Dorothy Searles; Felix Golubev; Kevonte Wilson; Chris Cook; Bob Belcher; Roger Smith; Jeremy Banks; Harry Carson; Tonya Rerecich; Thomas Drake; Jirô Ishimaru; James Jones; Sheelah Kolhatkar; Cormac Murphy-O'Connor; Nokubheka; Sebastian Stein; Evan Williams; Kathryn Bigelow; Ludmila Toman; Randy Ramaglia; Sage Pennington; Ray Searles; David Faircloth; Eric Forman; Vicky Prater; Josh Smith; Steve Fainaru; Patty O'Connell; Addie Rerecich; Pope Francis; Hazem; Dmytro Holubnychy; Manjo Lamin; Lee; Bethany McLean; Melusi; Abubakar Shekau; Andrey Zykov; Sergei Grigorev; Mike Kurth; Carleen Simpson; Said; Tim Hopper; Diane Barbee; Kaylie Hegwood; Brad King; Beth Wilkinson; Pope Benedict XVI; Ishata Conteh; Oleg Demchuk; Gcebile; Jang Jin-Sung; Jamal Marouf; Shehu Sani; Scott; Gillian Findlay; Greg Miller; Igor Popienko; David Floyd; Alexandra Lydon; Burvin Terry Smith; Tyler Hegwood; Walt Bogdanich; Mickey Collins; Sean Elliot; Erkin Chinasylova; James Clapper; Darius; Farah; Kadiatu Jusu; Andrei Lankov; Robert Mickens; Dmytro Yarosh; Karen Dawisha; Vladimir Roudenko; Keni Thomas; Chellie Pingree; Kate Middleton; Brandice Barbee; Barbara Hegwood; Peter De Forest; Bennet Omalu; David Ricci; Carmelo Abbate; Patrick Carroll; Genna; Tim Jagatic; Maribel; Charity Newton; Douglas Ollivant; Sara; Sue Mi Terry; Anatoliy Sobchak; Anatol Zukerman; Jason Moore; Kevin W. Concannon; Columbia McCaleb; Ron Franks; Jordan; Michele Fulginiti; Vernon Geberth; Abdul; Jason Berry; John DeLong; Turney Duff; Helen; Katie; Jeong Kwang-il; Mbingo; Anja Wolz; Dianne Feinstein; Lyudmila Narusova; Marc Smith; Gregg Gould; Marjorie E. Powell; Paul D. Eaton; Debra Sperling; Todd Willingham; Noala; Ciara Morris; Cheryl Perron; Stan Savran; Abu Ali; Daisy; Bheki Dlamini; Fatmata; James Fleishman; Stephen Hadley; David Kang; Hennadiy Kernes; Juan Vaca; Igor Shadkhan; Mark Udall; Carlos Riera; Anton Berendsen; John Moran; Charles Battaglia; Jimmie Hensley; Tanner; Julian Bailes; Jennifer Crites; Ramanan Laxminarayan; Annie; Mohammed Bello; Preet Bharara; Marcial Maciel Degollado; Zandile Dlamini; Fallah Jusu; Brian McCoy; Diane Roark; Kang Sin Sam; Victoria Sumar; Stanislav Belkovsky; Mark Mazzetti; Peter Squeglia; Sydney Taurel; Matt Sherman; John Jackson; Alex; John Lynch; Michelle O'Connell; Mike Webster; John Campbell; Chanyang; Nicholin Dlamini; Raul Gonzales; Hala; Denis Pushilin; Jenny Strasburg; Will; Marina Salye; Aaron Hand; Raymond V. Gilmartin; Douglas Fogg; Jasmine Davis; Debra Maynard; Julie Segre; Pam Webster; Aboude; Makmid Kamara; Robert Marshall; Michael Kirk; Marcela Gaviria; Rick Young; Mike Wiser; Jon Palfreman; Ben Loeterman; Rachel Dretzin; Miri Navasky; Neil Docherty; Karen O'Connor; Oriana Zill de Granados; Frank Koughan; John Zaritsky; Helen Whitney; Sherry Jones; Greg Barker; Barak Goodman; Raney Aronson; Daniel Edge; Thomas Lennon; Doug Hamilton; Antony Thomas; David Sutherland; Michael Chandler; David Rummel; Carl Byker; Elena Mannes; Jane Barnes; John Maggio; Andrés Cediel; Ken Dornstein; Kevin Sim; Shelby Steele; Dewitt Sage; Richard Ben Cramer; Kathleen Hughes; Eamonn Matthews; David Fanning; Marian Marzynski; Kenneth Levis; Marc Shaffer; Sue Williams; Renata Simone; Seth Bomse; Jamie Doran; Travis Fox; Catherine Upin; James Reston Jr.; Michael Schwarz; Charlie Cobb; William Peters; Colin Wills; Tom Bower; Irv Drasnin; Marc Cooper; Richard O'Regan; Alan Austin; Ray Telles; Jennifer McCauley; Elizabeth Arledge; Charles C. Stuart; Lee Harvey Oswald; Becky Smith; Ken Auletta; Geramie Barmé; Tom Casciato; John Crowley; Paul Judge; Marshall Frady; Daniel Schorr; Michael Sullivan; Mark Zwonitzer; Adrian Cowell; Joseph Nocera; Steve Bradshaw; Henry Louis Gates; Tom Mangold; Elizabeth Sams; John Carlin; Darius A. Kamali; Sheila Kaplan; Sarah Spinks; Jane Warnes; Claudia Pryor Malis; Brooke Runnette; Kevin Anderson; Terence McKenna; Chris Oxley; Adrian Pennink; Alan Smithee; Janet Tobias; Hirsch Goodman; Graham Judd; Alex Kotlowitz; David Murdock; Ron Rosenbaum; Satah Spinks; Andrew Liebman; Jihan El-Tahri; Nicholas Lemann; Tom Roberts; Steven Ascher; Peter Bull; Joe Cultrera; Jeanne Jordan; T.R. Reid; Deborah Scranton; Paul Stekler; Mark Obenhaus; Terence McKeown; L. Christopher Smith; John Hockenberry; Mark Fainaru-Wada; John Marks; Glenn Silber; Caitlin McNally; Mary Robertson; Nick Verbitsky; Angus MacQueen; Ly Chheng
• Director: Robert Marshall
• Runtime: 1:00
• Company: WGBH Boston Video, PBS Home Video
• Media Format: Series