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In 2002, PBS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS> aired a six-hour documentary
based on the book. This documentary was later sold on DVD, and is available
for viewing free at PBS' web site for those with high-speed
Internet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet> connections
(see external links). The documentary is hosted byDavid Ogden
Stiers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ogden_Stiers>
.

Thanks to its later date, the documentary film is able to address many of
the items Yergin and Stanislaw missed in their original book, including the
recession, the collapse of Asian economies, the anti-globalization movement,
and the attack on New York City <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City>.
All told, two of the documentary's six hours—the entire final third—address
things that happened since the original book was published. They also
include free market solutions to international poverty that was not included
in the book - they interview economist Hernando de
Soto<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_(economist)>,
whose book on the subject was not published until after the initial printing
of *Commanding Heights.*

Like the book, the documentary attracted more support and criticism. One
example is the anti-globalization movement, which argued they were portrayed
unfairly. In the documentary, a WTO representative is interviewed and says
that such protesters are so ignorant of
economics<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics> that
they should not be protesting in the first place (the documentary includes a
scene of said representative getting hit in the face with a
pie<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie> by
a protester).

Unlike the book, the PBS documentary is far more wary of the possible end of
the current era of globalization. For example, they include a parallel
between radio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio> stocks of the 1920s and dot
com <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_company> stocks of the 1990s -
both were industries built on
newtechnology<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology> which
had little capital, but which fell prey to a market
bubble<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_bubble>.
Likewise, the documentary draws an unsettling parallel between the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the "terrorist"
assassination<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination>
 of Franz 
Ferdinand<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria>
in
1914.

The documentary is also accused of further oversimplfying the so-called
"Battle of Ideas" between Keynes and von Hayek. For example, in the DVD
version, Keynes is named together with Karl
Marx<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx> and
Lenin as supporters of controlled economies. However Keynes saw himself as a
liberal, in both the party political and economic senses of the term
[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_Heights#cite_note-0>
.
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