This PBS series is based on the best-selling book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw.

Special features of these DVDs: Daniel Yergin on creating a television series from a book; Q&A with Yergin and producers William Cran and Greg Barker; access to the Commanding Heights web site; excerpt from the companion book to the series; complete list of interview subjects included in the series.

Narrator, David Ogden Stiers ; original music, Paul Foss.

Filmed on five continents, the narrative combines film footage with dramatic stories and interviews with world leaders and thinkers from twenty different countries, including: Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and President George W. Bush's Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsey. Captures the issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and shows how the battle over the world economy will shape our lives in the twenty-first century.

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