Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town (2001)

Directed by

Micha X. Peled

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

59 min

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the effects of a large retail chain opening a store in a small American town. It shows the perspectives of local business owners, workers, and community members as they face change.

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What happens

Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town is a documentary based on a true story, directed by filmmaker Micha Peled. The movie was released on October 2, 2001. It is Peled's second documentary after Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin? (1993). It is the part one of Peled's Globalization Trilogy where the other two films of the trilogy are China Blue (2005) and Bitter Seeds (2011). The film's music was directed by Pete Sears and the cinematography was taken care by Allen Moore. It was premiered in South by Southwest Film Festival in 2001. The documentary won CINE Golden Eagle Awards and Golden Gate award in San Francisco International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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