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- The Apple Pushers, narrated by Edward Norton, follows the inspiring stories of five immigrant pushcart vendors who are rolling fresh fruits and vegetables into New York City's food deserts - neighborhoods where finding a ripe, red apple is a serious challenge and where obesity rates are skyrocketing. These micro-entrepreneurs, who hail from Ecuador, Russia, Mexico, and Bangladesh, are at the heart of a unique urban strategy, the Green Cart Initiative, which seeks to increase the availability of fresh produce in under-served communities, in an effort to combat the obesity epidemic found in so many of America's cities.
- Contrarian chronicles the life of legendary investor, John Templeton, who ranks among the top investors of all time. Long before Warren Buffet and Peter Lynch were on the radar, thousands of people were trekking to Templeton's annual meetings, making Templeton the first rock star investor. Raised in a small rural town in Tennessee, John was profoundly influenced by his mother's sense of adventure and optimism. This proved to be indispensable years later when John's father lost everything with a risky bet on cotton futures. John's resilience and meteoric rise as an entrepreneur and investor can be attributed to lessons learned in his youth:think differently, live frugally, be willing to bet against conventional thinking, and above all, be honest.
- A documentary on inner city teens from Harlem to Compton and all points in between, as they compete in an annual business plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).