Black Coffee is a 2007 Canadian documentary film examining the complicated history of coffee and detailing its political, social, and economic influence from the past to the present day.
The film details how coffee is the eighth most traded legal commodity in the world. It is also the fourth most valuable agricultural commodity. However, only one cent of a $2 cup of coffee goes to the grower. This inequality has helped shape the history of continents and the Cold War.
Black Coffee Episode 1- The Perfect Cup:
The 3rd and last episode heralds what some coffee experts have called “the romantic age of coffee.” North Americans rediscovered what their Europeans counterparts have known all along: coffee is better when it’s quality coffee, and the best place to drink it is in the relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the cafe.
Black Coffee Episode I – The Irresistible Bean:
The first episode explores coffee’s origins in Ethiopia and its triumphant spread over five Continents, sparking revolution, controversy, creativity, business and slavery along the way.
Black Coffee Episode - Gold in Your Cup:
The second episode takes viewers back to examine coffee’s 19th century stranglehold on Brazil and Central America. The oppression led to coffee barons, the subjugation of Indians and Africans, the destruction of rainforests and, ironically, the evolution of both democracy and dictatorships.
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