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Many thanks to Barry for passing this along.  If you've ever felt like you were dooing battle with a program, you'll get a good laugh out of this... 

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard.
A really fun look at some of the underlying causes and solutions to our obsession with stuff!
There's lots of good information (and a higher quality version of this video) on the The Story of Stuff website.

A humourous look at the development of the age of oil and its role in world politics and economics - the information in this video should be in every high school textbook, but I'd bet you'll be hard pressed to find it in any.

Unlike all the 'consipricy theories' that populate the web, this video provides a largely dispationate, objective look at what money is and where it gets its value.  Although it was produced before the current financial crisis erupted, it sheds a great deal of light what's going on in that murky financial world where trading bits of paper creates 'value', without needing to invoke any gran