When banana ruled / Quark & ARTE France present ; a film by Mathilde Damoisel ; un film écrit et réalisé par Mathilde Damoisel ; produit par Juliette Guigon & Patrick Winocour.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Damoisel, Mathilde, film director, screenwriter.

Guigon, Juliette, film producer.

Winocour, Patrick, film producer.

Quark Productions, production company.

ARTE France, production company.

Icarus Films, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banana trade--Economic aspects--Central America.

Banana trade.

Banana trade--Political aspects--Central America.

Corporate power--Central America--History.

Corporate power.

International business enterprises.

Globalization--Central America--History.

Globalization.

History.

Central America.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2018]

Language Note:

Closed captioning available.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

This film tells the story of the men who made bananas the most ubiquitous fruit in the world, through a multinational empire that dominated production and sales, overthrew governments, and created a business model still largely used by today's tech giants.

Credits:

Montage, Solveig Risacher ; musique originale, Fabien Bourdier ; image, Olivier Raffet, Scott Sinkler.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Quark Productions, ARTE France, ©2017.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed March 6, 2018).

Publisher Number:

if-banana Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.