From the Ground Up
55 minutes /
Ages 13+ /
2008 /
United States of America /
Average:
The definitive scoop on the coffee trade.
**AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES**
With few words and no polemics, "From the Ground Up" shows how an ordinary cup of coffee occupies center stage in the world economy. Traveling with the filmmaker from Guatemala to South Carolina to New York City and seeing each phase of coffee production unfold—the growing, picking, processing, distribution, brewing and selling—one comes to understand that most products we use have passed through the hands, and lives, of countless people in numerous countries.

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8 months ago
Incredible film! That is why I support fair trade. I'm American born but I'm Guatemalan. It hurts me to see how my people work so hard to harvest coffee and do the most work and get paid the least. Please support fair trade. Great work Su Friedrick!