Showdown in Seattle: Five Days That Shook the WTO (1999)

1999-12-012h 30m

1999 documentary film, first broadcast in daily half-hour installments, about the November 1999 protests against the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, Washington.

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