businessmen

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businessmen

Seven types of ambiguity

2004
Simon Heywood, still obsessed with Anna nine years after their breakup, triggers an emotional chain of events when he kidnaps her six-year-old son Sam, and must then depend on her for his freedom when he lies and says he had her permission to pick up the child.

The entrepreneurs

explorations within the American business tradition
1974

Woolworth's five and dime

fortune and failure
1997
Documentary on the creation of the F. W. Woolworth 5 & 10 cent store empire by Frank Winfield Woolworth, and how his granddaughter Barbara Hutton spent the fortune her grandfather had accumulated.

J.C. Penney

main street millionaire
1997
Traces the life of J. C. Penney, who went from being a poor Scottish immigrant to being a fabled man of wealth.

Bill Gates

sultan of software
2002
Learn about this computer industry giant, from his privileged childhood to his battles with the Justice Department.

Sam Walton

bargain billionaire
2002
Looks at the life of Sam Walton, founder of the Wal-Mart chain of discount stores.

H. Ross Perot

the man who woke up America
1993
Text and photographs present the life of the outspoken businessman from Texarkana whose 1992 presidential bid altered the face of American politics.

Ben & Jerry-- the real scoop!

1993
A light-hearted look at the background of the two men who founded Ben & Jerry's ice cream company and how their business got started.

Bill Gates

1998
Learn about this computer industry giant, from his privileged childhood to his recent battles with the Justice Department.

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