‘70: Remembering a Revolution Alex DeVerteuil & Elizabeth Topp 2011, 114 min., Color, Trinidad & Tobago How did a handful of students change the course of history in Trinidad and Tobago? Between February and April 1970, the streets of Port of Spain were filled with young Black men and women chanting ‘Po...
The Absent Stone Sandra Rozental & Jesse Lerner 2013, 82 min., Color, Mexico In 1964, a colossal pre-Hispanic monolith was taken from the town of San Miguel Coatlinchan in the state of Mexico and brought to the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Since then, the ab...
Afroargentines Jorge Fortes & Diego H. Ceballos Producer: Jorge Fortes & Diego H. Ceballos 2003, 75 min., Color/BW, Argentina “Most Argentines, if you ask, will tell you: ‘In Argentina there are no black people.’” So opens AFROARGENTINES, a film which unearths the hidden history of black people in Argentina and their contrib...
America a.k.a. Amerika (Newsreel #?) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1969, 30 min., BW, US Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front. Conversations with Vietnam veterans, young teenagers, and ...
The Amerindians Tracy Assing Producer: Tracy Assing 2010, 40 min., Color, US In this revealing documentary, Tracy Assing explores Trinidad’s indigenous history and the inner workings of the organization which represents these indigenous descendants, the Santa Rosa Carib Commun...
Anomaly: A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity Jessica Chen Drammeh Producer: Jessica Chen Drammeh & Sharon K. Smith 2013, 47 min., Color, US ANOMALY is an award-winning documentary film that provides a thought-provoking look at multiracial identity by combining personal narratives with the larger drama of mixed race in American culture. Th...
The Army Forced Them to Be Violent Tino Saroengallo 2002, 43 min., Color, Indonesia After the fall of President Suharto in May 1998, the student movement in Indonesia had to face the military/police repression in their fight for overall reform. Because of the repression and force th...
Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens Deborah A. Thomas & John L. Jackson, Jr. & Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn Producer: Deborah A. Thomas, John L. Jackson, Jr., Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn, & Junior “Ista J” Manning 2011, 63 min., Color, Jamaica For many around the world, Jamaica conjures up images of pristine beach vacations with a pulsating reggae soundtrack. The country, however, has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world...
Between the Cup and the Election Monique Mbeka Phoba & Guy Kabeya Muya 2008, 56 min., Color/BW, DRC/Belgium Inspired by the 2006 elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formery Zaire, a group of film students sets out to make a film. With the help of veteran filmmakers Monique Mbeka Phoba and Guy...
Bittersweet Survival : Southeast Asian Refugees in America J.T. Takagi & Christine Choy Producer: Third World Newsreel 1982, 30 min., Color, US This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins with a montage of riveting footage depicting the deva...
Black Russians Kara Lynch Producer: Third World Newsreel 2001, 116 min., Color, US/Russia BLACK RUSSIANS is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological cu...
BRAZ (Brigada Rafael Arce Zablah) Sistema Radio Venceremos Producer: El Salvador Media Project 1984, 35 min., Color, El Salvador A portrait of the FMLN's Rafael Arce Zablah Brigade (BRAZ), the rebel army, and its development in the context of Salvadoran history.
Made in El Salvador by Sistema Radios Venceremos, this film was...
C’est Quitte: The French Creoles of Trinidad Alex DeVerteuil 2004, 59 min., Color, Trinidad & Tobago The role of the Catholic church, of the French and Patois (Creole) languages, of educational institutions, of family values and the impact of racism, prejudice and cultural stereotypes are discussed f...
Calypso Dreams Geoffrey Dunn and Michael Horne 2004, 85 min., Color, Trinidad & Tobago An intimate portrait of some of the true calypsonians in Trinidad & Tobago, in performance and in conversation. Shot over three years in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the documentary includes such legendar...
The Chinatown Files Amy Chen 2001, 57 min., Color, US This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades. Exploring the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chine...
Closer to the Dream (Long Version) Guetty Felin & Hervé Cohen 2008, 102 min., Color, US An electoral road movie about Barack Obama and the movement that united Americans across party, racial and ethnic lines. In 2008 Haitian-American filmmaker Guetty Felin, her husband, French filmmaker ...
Commander Clelia: Political Prisoner Sistema Radio Venceremos Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos 1984, 28 min., Color, El Salvador Five women, including FMLN Commander Lilian Mercedes Letona "Clelia", speak about their imprisonment after they are released from the Women's Prison of Ilopango when the Salvadoran government declared...
Comrades Edward Wong 1999, 26 min., Color, US COMRADES is a personal documentary essay about two men who took part in the violent socialist struggles of the mid-20th century, only to face resistance and disillusionment. The producer's father, Yoo...
The Couple in the Cage Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia 1993, 30 min., Color, US Over the last five hundred years, non-western human beings have been exhibited in the taverns, theaters, gardens, museums, zoos, circuses and world's fairs of Europe, and the circuses and freak shows ...
Cry of the Forest, The Alejandro Noza, Nicolás Ipamo, Iván Sanjinés Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2008, 94 min., Color, Bolivia Bolivia’s first indigenous feature film, THE CRY OF THE FOREST is based on true events that led to the indigenous demonstrations of 1990 and 1996, two events that changed the political history of Boli...
Dal Puri Diaspora Richard Fung 2012, 80 min., Color, Canada The recipe for dal puri traveled with indentured workers from India’s Gangetic plain to southern Caribbean colonies of Britain and the Netherlands in the 19th Century. In the 1960s the wrapped roti mi...
December 7/September 11 Ann Brandman & Paul Nishijima Producer: Third World Newsreel 2001, 15 min., US A comparison of how the events and possible after effects of September 11th may mirror those of the attack on Pearl Harbor. A collection of interviews with Japanese-American veterans who witnessed the...
Decision to Win: The First Fruits Sistema Radio Venceremos/Radio Venceremos System Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos/Radio Venceremos System 1981, 75 min., Color, El Salvador This unique and moving film depicts the Salvadoran heartland in the early years of the war. It presents different aspects of daily life in El Salvador in areas called popular power zones controlled by...
Don't Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare Chip Richie Producer: Steven R. Heape 2010, 60 min., Color, US Declared wards of the state, Native Americans were promised housing, education and healthcare in numerous treaties with the US Government. Like so many other federal promises, these too have not been ...
Dusting Off Our History Alfredo Copa Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 1999, 27 min., Color, Bolivia Leaders of three different Ayllus, or indigenous communities, meet to celebrate their common traditions, their love for music and sports, and to reflect on the rapid changes in agriculture, education,...
Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation Manthia Diawara 2010, 50 min., Color, US In 2009, filmmaker Manthia Diawara, along with his camera, documented his conversations with Martinican philosopher, writer, and poet Édouard Glissant aboard the Queen Mary II on their transatlantic j...
El Salvador Media Project Video Series Sistema Radio Venceremos Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos 1987, Color, El Salvador Third World Newsreel maintains a collection of videotapes that chronicle the Salvadoran people's struggle for democracy. The following videotapes are available for viewing at Third World Newsreel by l...
Enemies of War Esther Cassidy Producer: Esther Cassidy 2001, 58 min., Color, US/El Salvador Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her fifteen year old daughter were assassinated in El Salvador in 1989. The US government appointed Congressman Joseph Moakley to lead an investigation. What...
Enemy Alien Konrad Aderer 2011, 82 min., Color, US ENEMY ALIEN is the gripping story of the fight to free Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a Palestinian-born human rights activist detained in a post-9/11 sweep of Muslim immigrants. Told through the eyes of the fil...
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides Lucy Craft, Karen Kasmauski & Kathryn Tolbert 2015, 26 min., Color, US Three Japanese war brides trace their tumultuous journey to America as the young wives of US soldiers and civilians. Atsuko, Emiko and Hiroko were among tens of thousands of Japanese women who married...
A Family Called Abrew Maureen Blackwood Producer: Sankofa Film and Video Collective 1992, 42 min., Color, UK This documentary profiles a fascinating family that has been based in Scotland since the end of the 19th century. It also traces the history of people of African descent living in Europe before the gr...
Forbidden to Wander Susan Youssef 2003, 35 min., Color FORBIDDEN TO WANDER chronicles the experiences of a young Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the summer of 2002. The film is a ...
Forgotten Lessons Nashid Fareed Producer: Third World Newsreel 2001, 11 min., Color, US A dialogue between two unlikely historical interlocutors is set against a compelling collection of images that situate the horror of recent events within the context of foreign policy, popular mobiliz...
Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution Bruce Paddington Producer: Bruce Paddington & Luke Paddington 2013, 113 min., Color, Trinidad & Tobago The invasion of Grenada by US forces in 1983 echoed around the world and put an end to a unique experiment in Caribbean politics. What were the circumstances that led to this extraordinary chain of ev...
From Spikes to Spindles Christine Choy Producer: Third World Newsreel 1976, 46 min., Color, US This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join...
Fuera Yanqui (Newsreel # ?) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1970, 15 min., BW, US This film provides a short history of the Dominican Republic and an analysis of the control exerted on its economic structure by U.S. interests. The people of the island talk about the "elections", t...
Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America Eduardo López & Peter Getzels Producer: Wendy Thompson-Marquez 2012, 90 min., Color, US At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, HARVEST OF EMPIRE examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we ...
Hiroshima Nagasaki Download Shinpei Takeda 2010, 73 min., Color, US/Japan In Spring of 2009, two former high school friends set out on a road trip from Vancouver, Canada, heading south towards the Mexican border. Along the way, they meet atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima a...
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner Duane Kubo & Robert Nakamura Producer: Visual Communications 1980, 90 min., Color, US This poignant drama chronicles the contributions and hardships of Japanese Americans from the turn of the century to the late seventies. This history is told by Oda, a feisty Issei--one of the elderly...
Homes Apart: Korea J.T. Takagi & Christine Choy Producer: Third World Newsreel 1991, 56 min., Color, US/Korea They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart. By the early 90's, as the rest of t...
Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story Maria Binder 1997, 28 min., Color, Germany A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim. Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research...
Human Traffic: Past and Present Frances-Anne Solomon 2012, 34 min., Color, US This eye-opening film documents the 2011 Conference on Human Trafficking and features the work of leading scholars, historians, lawyers, activists, and artists to generate a broad discussion of some o...
Imperialism U.S.A. (1776-1969) (Newsreel #?) San Francisco Newsrel Producer: Newsreel 50 min., BW, US What the history books won't tell you... Analysis and highlights of the rapid and ruthless military and economic expansion of the United States. Who benefited and who suffered. Made by San Francisco N...
In Search of Africa Manthia Diawara 1997, 26 min., Color, US In 1996, the filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara, now living in New York, returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Despite the years...
Inbetween Robert Crusz Producer: Sankofa Film and Video Collective 1992, 25 min., Color, UK "When I was a child in Sri Lanka, my father encouraged me to consider everything European and Western to be of greater value than things Asian and Eastern...I arrived in England with great excitement ...
Indochina: Traces of a Mother Idrissou Mora-Kpai 2011, 72 min., Color, France/Benin INDOCHINA: TRACES OF A MOTHER documents a little-known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history and the personal story of Christophe, a Beninese-Vietnamese orphan that returns to Vietnam ...
Jagadakeer: Between the Near and East Tina M. Bastajian 2001, 19 min., Color, US Jagadakeer is an Armenian word meaning fate, or literally, what is written on one's forehead. Memory, nostalgia, displacement, absence and reconnection are explored using the Armenian genocide as a po...
Janie's Janie (Newsreel) Newsreel, Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford & Stephanie Palewski Producer: Newsreel 1971, 25 min., BW, US Produced by The Newsreel collective, JANIE'S JANIE is an extraordinary document of the early 1970's women's movement. In this personal documentary, Jane Giese, a working class woman in Newark, comes t...
Landscape & Memory: Martinican Land-people-history Renee Gosson & Eric Faden 2001, 30 min., Color, US/Martinique In LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY, the French West Indies most renowned identity theoreticians Jean Bernabe, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphael Confiant investigate the different ways in which France, as a colonial...
Lest We Forget Jason DaSilva 2003, 55 min., Color, US Through critical lenses, this film explores a lesson that history has forgotten in a country that is alienating its citizens and violating their basic rights. During World War II it was Japanese-Amer...
Letter from Morazan: The Commander Gonzalo Military Campaign Sistema Radio Venceremos/Radio Venceremos System Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos/Radio Venceremos System 1982, 50 min., Color, El Salvador This unusual documentary is an unsentimental portrait of the rebel military campaign in July-August 1982 that led to FMLN dominance of the war in El Salvador. Often humorous, with a haunting, leisurly...
Look At My People How They Struggle a.k.a. Mire Mi Pueblo, ¡Como Lucha! Sistema Radio Venceremos Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos 1985, 30 min., Color, El Salvador A fresh, free-wheeling look at the mothers, daughters, teachers, and political prisoners in El Salvador and their struggle to come to terms with suffering and political persecution. A rare opportunity...
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words Louis Massiah 2002, 18 min., Color, US A short documentary tracing the life and times of Louise Alone Thompson Patterson, a civil rights and labor activist who was dubbed ”Madame Moscow” for her role in America’s communist movement....
Maison Tropicale Manthia Diawara 2008, 58 min., Color, Republic of Congo/France In 2008, filmmaker Manthia Diawara and artist Angela Ferreira travelled to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo to “search through the debris left behind by those who took away the [Maison Tropicales]....
Marriage Bibo Liang 2001, 60 min., Color, China MARRIAGE is an intimate portrait about the intersecting and antagonistic relations between generations and institutions. Filmed in 1997, it traces two sides of one mountain in a remote village in Sout...
Mask: A Field Report on Masked Performance Liu Xiaojin 2000, 120 min., Color, China Since the time of the Qing Dynasty, villagers of Xiaotun have performed a folk opera in which all the actors wear masks. Known as the “Guansuo Opera”, its performances were suspended during the Cultu...
Memories of a Forgotten War Camilla Benolirao Griggers/Sari Lluch Dalena Producer: Kawayan Films 2002, 57 min., Color, US/The Philippines In the decade following the Spanish-American War, more Filipinos were killed by US troops than by the Spanish during the 300 years of colonial rule. More than 1 million Filipinos died between 1899 an...
Mississippi Triangle Christine Choy, Worth Long, Allan Siegel Producer: Third World Newsreel 1984, 78 min., Color, US This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese com...
Nailed Angel Velasco Shaw 1992, 50 min., Color A Filipina's exploration of the Catholic Church and 400 years of colonialism in the Pacific region is woven in a montage of images, sounds, stories and performances. Inspired by Lucy Reyes, a woman wh...
Nailed It: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry Adele Pham 2018, 59 min., Color, US Visit any strip mall in the United States, and there’s bound to be a Vietnamese nail salon. While ubiquitous in cities across the country, few Americans know the history behind the salons and the 20 V...
Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor Manthia Diawara 2015, 59 min., Color, USA/France/Germany/Portugal This imagined dialogue between Léopold Sédar Senghor, one of the founding fathers of Negritude, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka was reconstructed almost entirely from archival materials. It probes the...
North Korea: Beyond the DMZ J.T. Takagi & Hye Jung Park
Edited by Dena Mermelstein 2003, 60 min., Color, North Korea/US While this tiny state on the divided Korean peninsula is continually demonized in the U.S., few have any first hand knowledge of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. What is it like on the other...
Ocoee: Legacy of the Election Day Massacre Bianca White & Sandra Krasa 2002, 26 min., Color, US In the early 20th century, Ocoee was home to one of Florida's most prosperous African American communities. On Election Day 1920, Mose Norman and July Perry attempted to vote and the African American ...
Ori Raquel Gerber 1989, 90 min., Color, Brazil This documentary provides an overview of the Black Movement in Brazil during the 70s and 80s and tells the story of Beatriz Nascimento, an activist and historian searching for her African heritage. Be...
The Other Town Nefin Dinç Producer: Hercules Millas, Nefin Dinç, Claudine Avetyan & Gamze Paker Mekik 2011, 45 min., Color, Greece/Turkey/US Why do neighbors fight? Why do citizens of Greece and Turkey experience mutual dislike and distrust? Decades after the end of the Greco-Turkish War, the last armed conflict between Greece and Turkey, ...
Our Word: The Story of San Francisco de Moxos Julia Mosúa Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 1999, 22 min., Color, Bolivia In this docudrama, elders of the San Francisco de Moxos community tell the story of the courageous pioneers who founded their village in the Bolivian Amazons and the indigenous “cabildo”, or neighborh...
Out: The Making of a Revolutionary Sonja de Vries & Rhonda Collins 2000, 60 min., Color, US Convicted of the 1983 U.S. Capitol Bombing, and "conspiring to influence, change, and protest policies and practices of the United States government through violent and illegal means", Laura Whitehorn...
Palante, Siempre Palante! Iris Morales 1996, 48 min., Color, US In the midst of the African American civil rights struggle, protests to end the Vietnam War and the women's movement for equality, Puerto Rican and Latino communities fought for economic and social ju...
People Say Mary Beth Black 2005, 5 min., Color, US This insightful video montage embodies the full range of images, sights and emotions which followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.. Yet, it also depicts the hope, compassion and commit...
People's War (Newsreel #43) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1969, 40 min., BW, US This newly restored film records the mobilization and participation of the Vietnamese people in their country's fight against colonialism and foreign military aggression. Moving beyond the perception...
Promised Land Yoruba Richen Producer: Yoruba Richen 2010, 57 min., Color, South Africa/US Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain unresolved. As revealed in Yoruba Richen’s incisive PROMISED LAND, the most potentially explosive i...
Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself. Yvonne Welbon 1995, 30 min., Color, us/China An autobiographical experimental documentary about the artist's experiences as an African-American woman living in Taiwan for six years. Recreations of time and place are presented through memories, h...
Resistance at Tule Lake Konrad Aderer Producer: Michelle Chen 2017, 78 min., US The dominant narrative of the World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans has been that they behaved as a “model minority,” that they cooperated without protest and proved their patriotism by enl...
Reunion: West Indian Women at War Frances-Anne Solomon 1993, 25 min., Color, UK In 1943, 300 middle-class “colored” women from across the West Indies were recruited to the ATS, a branch of the British Army during WW2.
Meeting up for a reunion with her wartime friends, 72-year-...
Salty Dog Blues Al Santana & Denise B Santiago 2012, 52 min., Color/BW, US SALTY DOG BLUES features a group of men and women of color who served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1937 – 1989. This nine-year project examines their development as a multi-racial and int...
San Jie Cao Bibo Liang 2001, 60 min., Color, China In an area south of Chengdu, a quickly evolving metropolitan city in the remote high mountains, lies the home of the Moso people, an indigenous ethnic minority in China. In 1943, Xiao Shuming, then a ...
Sirionó CEFREC/CAIB Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2010, 56 min., Color, Bolivia In the years leading to the historic 1990 March for Indigenous Land and Dignity, the Sirionó community of Ibiato resists the imposition of a Eurocentric educational system that devalues their way of l...
Sky-blue Hometown Soh-Young Kim 2000, 93 min., Color, Korea This documentary traces the trajectory of a Korean diasporic community in the former Soviet Union. Placed in internment camps by Stalin during World War II, the plight of a generation of Korean-Russia...
Some Divine Wind Roddy Bogawa 1991, 72 min., Color, US SOME DIVINE WIND (a reference to the Japanese term Kamikaze, or “divine wind”) tells the story of Ben, whose father was part of a U.S. bombing mission that destroyed his Japanese mother’s village—and ...
A Song for Ourselves Tadashi Nakamura 2009, 35 min., Color, US A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima. Struggling to make sense of their father’s early death, Iijima's teenage sons l...
Sowing Hope a.k.a. Seedtime of Hope Sistema Radio Venceremos/Radio Venceremos System Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos/Radio Venceremos System 1983, 30 min., Color, El Salvador This film depicts the activist role taken by the Catholic Church in defending human rights in El Salvador. Interviews with the late Archbishop Romero and Christians living in guerrilla-controlled zone...
Spirit of the Dragon Gil Gavreau 2003, 25 min., Color, Canada In 1923, the Canadian government passed the infamous Exclusion Act, which barred all Chinese immigration to Canada for 24 years and required all Chinese-Canadian citizens to carry an identification ca...
Tapestry: Asian Women in America (a.k.a. Tapestry II) Organization of Asian Women Producer: Organization of Asian Women 1991, 55 min., Color, US Through archival photographs, oral histories and folk songs by Nobuko Miyamoto, this video weaves the history of 200 years of Asian women's experiences. It begins with early Asian immigration to the U...
Teach Our Children Christine Choy & Susan Robeson Producer: Third World Newsreel 1972, 35 min., BW, US This film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film...
The Terror and the Time The Victor Jara Collective Producer: The Victor Jara Collective 1978, 75 min., BW, Guyana The terror is British colonialism in Guyana; the time is 1953, the year of the first elections under a provisional democratic constitution. Stylized scenes photographed throughout Georgetown accompany...
A Time of Victory: Nine Years of War in El Salvador Sistema Radio Venceremos/Radio Venceremos System Producer: El Salvador Media Project 1989, 60 min., Color, El Salvador This documentary is an unprecedented portrait of nine years of revolutionary war and counterinsurgency in El Salvador. Envisioned as an introductory document for the FMLN's top leadership in their fir...
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela Thomas Allen Harris Producer: Thomas Allen Harris 2005, 73 min., Color, US In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation with the man who raised him as a son but whom he could never call "father." As part of the first wave ...
Two Faces Sistema Radio Venceremos Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos 1989, 50 min., Color, El Salvador TWO FACES contrasts the hearts-and-minds tactics of U.S. military strategists and the organizing efforts of the Salvadoran resistance. This documentary is a precursor to the 1989 FMLN offensive that ...
Two Types of Peace a.k.a. Comité de Madres Sistema Radio Venceremos Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos 1984, 8 min., Color, El Salvador A glimpse of two types of women seeking very different types of peace: the women of the Salvadoran oligarchy and the members of the Committee of Mothers of the Disappeared (CoMadres).
Made in El Sa...
Umbilical Cord Angel Velasco Shaw 1998, 28 min., Color, Phillippines A kaleidoscope of the filmmaker's impressions of current events from the Centennial commemoration to recent elections and their relationship to the past one hundred years of Philippine struggle. In a ...
War for Guam Frances Negrón-Muntaner Producer: Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Baltazar B. Aguon, Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Cristine Borja Sumbi, Beni Matías 2015, 57 min., Color, US WAR FOR GUAM is a 57-minute film about World War II and its enduring legacy in Guam, a U.S. territory since 1898. The film tells the extraordinary story of how the Native people of Guam, the Chamorros...
Wataridori: Birds of Passage Robert Nakamura Producer: Visual Communications 1974, 37 min., Color, US Lyricism and visual beauty are evident in this film as four Issei (first generation Japanese Americans) describe a collective history through their personal memories. The filmmaker paints the canvas o...
The Women of Waray Waray Fruto Corre 1990, 5 min., BW, US A satiric look at U.S. intervention in the Philippines, using a half-Eartha Kitt, half-Imelda Marcos look-alike and television footage to represent the bizarre relationship between s....
The Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1969, 15 min., BW, US During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and throu...
X 1/2: The Legacy of Malcolm X Black Planet Productions Producer: Black Planet Productions 1994, 45 min., Color, US Set within the context of current African American struggles, this video examines the historical and contemporary legacies of Malcolm X. Using mixed media and experimental audio, X & 1/2 explores Blac...
Yanqui Walker and the Optical Revolution Kathryn Ramey 2009, 33 min., Color, US/Nicaragua This film explores a now-obscure American expansionist, William Walker, who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856. Walker was one of many expansionists who believed...
Zona Intertidal El Taller de los Vagos Collective Producer: El Taller de los Vagos Collective 1980, 14 min., Color, El Salvador A fictional essay on the detainment, torture and assassination of Salvadoran teachers in 1979, shortly before the Salvadoran Civil War broke out.
Produced independently in El Salvador, this film wa...
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