This is an excellent introduction to political economy for undergraduate students. The three DVDs also has a book that can accompany it, but the DVDS are sufficient for students. In fact, one of the best features of the DVDs is that the professor can skip certain sections of the documentary when the material is not relevant to the class or when he is pressed for time.
The first DVD, the Battle of Ideas, contrasts the ideas of Keynes and Hayek. I usually skip the sections that deal with Britain (chapters 13, 15, 17-18) and India (chapter 10). Hayek's Road to Serfdom is an excellent text to assign when students are viewing this DVD.
The second DVD, the Agony of Reform, traces the difficulties that India, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Russia underwent in their transition to a free market or semi-free market economy. I usually select only the chapters that focus Latin America and Russia as successful and unsuccessful case studies of states transitioning to a capitalist economy.
The third DVD, the New Rules of the Game, focuses on globalization: NAFTA, global financial markets and meltdowns, the rise of Asia, etc. Again, I only select chapters of themes that I want to focus on in class and leave others aside.
One of the problems with the documentary is its datedness - it ends essentially at 2000, thereby ignoring such issues as the energy and environmental policies. It also assumes a basic knowledge of foreign countries, which most American freshman lack. Nonetheless, the documentary does an excellent job of showing how "ideas have consequences" in both the political and economic arenas.