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BBC on Weathermen
Call Number: CD 175Format: DVDProducers: BBCCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A BBC documentary on the Weathermen. Actually fairly balanced given the American media frensy during this era. Good interviews with Linda Evans, Bernardine Dohrn, Jennifer Dohrn & Jonah Raskin. This is a DVD!
What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy : The War Against the Third World
Date: 4/1/2004Call Number: CD 303Format: DVDProducers: Frank DorrelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Frank Dorrel has put together an excellent 2 - hour video, the basic message being that the Central Intelligence Agency, the military-industrial complex, the Pentagon, the multinational corporations, the media and the Government of the United States are responsible for the deaths of millions of people in the third world, not to mention the poverty and oppression of millions more. We support, arm and train dictators and militaries that do these evil actions to their own people. All of this is to insure that we control the natural resources of these countries and their marketplace, use the people for cheap labor and keep the business of war (which is our biggest business) ongoing. The CIA has done business with international drug dealers, allowing heroin and cocaine to enter the U.S., using the profits to fund more covert operations. The mainstream media, or corporate media (as some refer to it), will not tell these truths because it is owned by the very corporations who benefit from all of this. When it comes to foreign policy, the mainstream media gets its stories straight from the Pentagon and the CIA. We have been taught all our lives that the United States fights for freedom and democracy, that we are the good guys. And since so many people in America are doing well, do have freedom, opportunity and wealth or are just trying to get by, there is very little motivation to look into the things being said on this tape.
Fernando Alegria and Nina Serrano
Date: 9/1/1973Call Number: CD 491Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Fernando Alegria and Nina Serrano read Fernando's poetry in Spanish and English.
Lumumba
Date: 1/1/2001Call Number: V 226Format: DVDProducers: Raoul PeckCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This award-winning epic dramatizes the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba. When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent state but would last just months in office before being brutally assassinated.
Chavez, Venezuela and the new Latin America
Date: 2/1/2004Call Number: V 227Format: DVDProducers: Oceanfilm - Alea GuevaraCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In February 2004, Alea Guevara (the daughter of Che Guevara) conducted an extended, exclusive interivew with Hugo Chavez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, exploring Venezuela's explosive revolutionary terrain post-April 2002 — when Hugo Chávez survived a coup attempt instigated by the United States. Featuring interviews with Hugo Chávez, and Jorge García Carneiro, newly appointed head of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, along with others involved in the country's many social programs, this film affords a rare opportunity to glimpse through the blockade of information imposed by the United States and into a country rich with hope, dreams and... oil.
The War at Home
Date: 1/1/1979Call Number: V 234Format: DVDProducers: Glen Silber, Barry Alexander BrownCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
An acclaimed documentary, The War at Home reveals what happened in Madison, Wisconsin during most of the 1960s and the early '70s when students and the community began to protest the Vietnam War. Directors Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown spent a long time going through the news archives of a local television station to cull footage from those years. Then they selected specific clips and first put together a background on the war. Quotes from John F. Kennedy to Richard Nixon and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, along with many other public figures vividly bring back the past. Next, the events at Madison are brought forward and local public figures speak memorable lines. Demonstrations are shown, as well as news events, like the man, now in jail, who bombed an Army information center on campus and killed a student. Emotion and drama run high throughout, making this a worthy documentary for anyone who either has forgotten or never knew what those days were like. This documentary won a Special Jury Prize at the now defunct U.S. Film Festival and was nominated for "Best Documentary" at the 1979 Academy Awards.
In the Year of the Pig
Date: 1/1/1968Call Number: V 312Format: DVDProducers: Emile de AntonioCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Regarded as Emile de Antonio's best film. It's an attack on America's foreign policy and propaganda campaign during the Vietnam War. Funded by the French and a group of Marxist rebels, the film is provocative and coolly intellectual. The film shows that Vietnam was always a single country, goes to lengths to highlight the fact that the US treated the conflict solely as a proxy war against Communism and provides insight into the US government's increasing control of the media.
Chicago 10
Date: 7/1/2008Call Number: CD 610Format: DVDProducers: Brett MorganCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Combining bold original animation with extraordinary archival footage, explores the buildup to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. The film brings viewers inside the courtroom to experience firsthand the drama, legal wrangling and raucous political theater. During the infamous 1968 Democratic national convention, antiwar protesters - denied permits to march and blocked from the political process - fought for their right to be heard. Confronted by Mayor Richard Daley's political machine, backed up by billy clubs and the stinging fog of tear gas, bloody riots splashed nightly on live television. Eight of the most vocal activists were charged and brought to trial in a courtroom circus that pitted activism against the establishment.
Michael Rossman
Date: 5/12/2008Call Number: V 326Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Michael Rossman - Mario Savio interview - 1994
Mario Savio Memorial - 1996
In tribute to Michael Rossman who passed 5/12/2008
Aleida Guevara Remembers her Father, Che
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 330Format: DVDProducers: Oceanfilm, Aleida guevaraCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Reveals the extraordinary bond between her parents and describes a side to Che previously unseen — Che the loving husband and father.
Aleida recounts several fascinating anecdotes from her childhood and describes coming to terms with her father's decision to go to Bolivia, as well as her own decision to follow in his footsteps as a doctor and social activist.
Aleida Guevara is the eldest daughter of Ernesto Che Guevara and Aleida March. She works as a pediatrician in Havana, Cuba, and is an international activist for social justice.
