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Ricanstructing Vieques
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 005Format: VHSProducers: Ugly planet mediaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
a punkumentary featuring the band Ricanstruction, directed by Vagabond.2/3 of the island is being destroyed by the Navy, the women and children have cancer, there is little employment. “ Another example is... you are at the beach, relaxing...one time we were at Sunbay this was in ‘87 or ‘88..we were with kids playing, and a few tanks came out of the water, various kinds of tanks..everybody was in shock, I grabbed my daughters and everybody was screaming then they went back in to the water, so if somebody would have been where they came out that person would have been dead. So it’s a mistake- there are many mistakes.”
Buena Vista Social Club
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 051Format: VHSProducers: Artisan Entertainment, Road Movies Film Production, Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg. Directors of photography Jörg Widmer, Robby Müller, edited by Brian Johnson.Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In 1996 Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album Buena Vista Social Club.
This ground-breaking documentary, inspired by the album, includes appearances by legendary performers Ry & Joaquim Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzáles, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo and many other renowned Cuban Musicians.
Excited by these colorful characters and their extraordinary music, Wenders traveled to Havana, Cuba to chronicle the cooperation and camaraderie between Ry Cooder and his veteran friends - now known in Cuba as "los superabuelos" (the super-grandfathers) - as well as their dazzling sell-out concerts in Amsterdam and New York's Carnegie Hall in April and July 1998.
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 101Format: VHSProducers: WNETProgram: American MastersCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The life and achievements of Paul Robeson - athlete, singer and scholar. Robeson is also the champion of human rights, Black people and the disenfranchised.
Victor Jara - El derecho de vivir en paz
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 161Format: VHSProducers: Carmen Luz ParotCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary, released in 1999, remembers the life of the Chilean folk singer Victor Jara. It documents his life from his infancy in the campo to his adolescent years spent living in a marginal community in Santiago, his work in the theater, and his support of the beliefs of the socialist president Salvador Allende. His death in the National Stadium as well as the exile of his widow Joan Turner and many others, not to mention the torture and death of thousands, were all a result of the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet following the death of President Allende. The documentary draws a parallel between the history of Jara and the transformations that his country suffered after September 11, 1973.
J Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisitions
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 296Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This scathing documentary chronicles the career of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI for more than 40 years. His lifelong obsession with communists that began with the “Red Scare” of the early 1920s and manifested itself into a mission hell-bent on eradicating anyone suspected of engaging in anti-American activities, be they actors, politicians or protest groups.
A masterful propagandist, Hoover took every opportunity given him to create a public atmosphere of outsider paranoia – and his fears ran deep. By the time of his death in 1972, Hoover’s FBI had compiled thousands of individual secret files and completed countless illegal operations.
Up the Ridge
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 310Format: DVDProducers: Nick Szuberla, Amelia KirbyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A television documentary produced by Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby. In 1999 Szuberla and Kirby were volunteer DJ’s for the Appalachian region’s only hip-hop radio program in Whitesburg, KY when they received hundreds of letters from inmates transferred into nearby Wallens Ridge, the region’s newest prison built to prop up the shrinking coal economy. The letters described human rights violations and racial tension between staff and inmates. Filming began that year and, though the lens of Wallens Ridge State Prison, the program offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts. The film explores competing political agendas that align government policy with human rights violations, and political expediencies that bring communities into racial and cultural conflict with tragic consequences. Connections exist, in both practice and ideology, between human rights violations in Abu Ghraib and physical and sexual abuse recorded in American prisons.
After Stonewall: A Quarter Century of Lesbian and Gay Activism
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 319Format: DVDProducers: John ScagliottiCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Sequel to Before Stonewall. In the middle of the rejuvenated concentration on the hostile response toward gay visibility, the documentary looks at how far the gay community has come and at the elimination of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. Also recognizes that not that everything was revolutionized across the board.
Melissa Etheridge narrated documentary deals with a period in history through individual memories and personal interviews including issues like Anita Bryant, Harvey Milk, AIDS, and the betrayal that was "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy
Date: 11/1/1999Call Number: V 560Format: VHSProducers: Bob Hercules, Bruce OrensteinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Examines the life and legacy of the famous community organizer and his continuing modern-day influence.
Voices against NATO’s involvement in Yugoslavia
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 611Format: VHSProducers: Justice VisionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Michael Parenti’s fierce criticism of NATO’s intervention’. The US aim is the break-up of Yugoslavia and an end to socialism and social programs. Milosevic is defended.
Howard Zinn on history as a way to awaken class consciousness and fight against war. US involvement in Yugoslavia is to give NATO a reason for existence. Bombings are counterproductive and are destroying internal opposition to Milosevic.
Lenora Foerstel asserts NATO’s intervention is a new form of colonization of the Balkans. Sara Flounders emphasizes US sponsored and financed invasion of a sovereign country. Belgian journalist Michel Collon analyzes media disinformation and says 4 goals for superpower intervention: oil/gas, the control of Eastern Europe, the use of the Balkans as a military base and the preparation for future aggression.
Noam Chomsky explains why NATO’s involvement can’t be a humanitarian one and how bombings only trigger a rapid escalation of atrocities. He also discusses the globalization of capital.
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