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2 million minutes [videorecording] / Two million minutes Broken Pencil Productions ; directed and edited by Chad Heeter ; produced by Adam Raney and Chad Heeter ; written by Adam Raney. - [Widescreen]. - [Indianapolis, Ind.] : Broken Pencil Productions, c2007. - 1 videodisc (54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Brains are everywhere -- Meet the students -- The flattening world -- Balancing my time -- Another Sputnik moment -- Seventeen in United States -- Expectations for myself -- Unless the U.S. wakes up.

Cinematography, Ferne Pearlstein ... [et al.] ; music, Eric Lindsay, Robert [Ernest] Hawes ; executive producer, Robert A. Compton. Cinematography, Ferne Pearlstein ... [et al.] ; music, Eric Lindsay, Robert [Ernest] Hawes ; executive producer, Robert A. Compton.

Featuring: Neil Ahrendt, Brittany Brechbuhl, Rohit Sridharan, Apoorva Uppala, Jin Ruizhang, Hu Xiaoyuan ; commentators, Richard B. Freeman, Tim Draper, Shirley Ann Jackson, Vivek Paul, Robert Reich, Vivien Stewart, Vivek Wadhwa.

Examines the daily lives, pressures, and ambitions of six high school students in the US, China, and India, and their future prospects in the global economy.


DVD, widescreen.


Narration in English; interviews in English or Chinese with English subtitles.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Education, Secondary--Cross-cultural studies.
High school students--United States.
High school students--China.
High school students--India.
Education, Secondary--United States.
Education, Secondary--China.
Education, Secondary--India.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Documentary videos--United States.

LC Class. No.: DVD LB1607 / .T95 2007