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In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid, Part 2

from Villon Films PRO on February 14, 2023 1 video

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Almost from the beginning of cinema, filmmakers have looked at the continent of Africa with a mixture of fear and fascination, prejudice and contempt. South Africa, with its fabulous mineral wealth, exotic locations, and white settlers, attracted scores of movie makers. Now, when the era of white rule…

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Steel Bands Of Trinidad

from Villon Films PRO on February 14, 2023 1 video

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Theory and practice of steel band performance. Every year the islands of Trinidad and Tobago are caught up in the frenzy of Carnival; a tradition inherited from the brief passage of the French through these islands.

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Nelson Mandela: Prisoner To President

from Villon Films PRO on March 20, 2023 1 video

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A biographical film about Nelson Mandela’s journey from anti-apartheid activist, to prisoner, then South African president.

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Rise & Fall Of The Borscht Belt

from Villon Films PRO on February 23, 2023 1 video

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History of the Catskill Mountains’ Jewish resort area – the Borscht Belt. For over 50 years, the Catskill Mountains of New York State were the summer retreat of millions of Jews, mostly of Eastern European origin, from New York City.

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Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid

from Villon Films PRO on February 23, 2023 1 video

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Peter Davis' documentary Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid was made in 1985, when she was in exile in Brandfort, South Africa.

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Generations Of Resistance

from Villon Films PRO on March 20, 2023 1 video

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From the moment that white colonisers stepped onto the shore of South Africa, they were met with resistance by the Black peoples. This resistance continued unabated until apartheid was defeated; but the story of this resistance was suppressed and distorted because white people controlled the history…

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White Laager

from Villon Films PRO on March 20, 2023 1 video

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A history of Afrikaner nationalism and the development of apartheid. In their quest for land in southern Africa, the Boer people fought off the African inhabitants of the land they were invading from a circle of covered wagons, known as a 'laager'.

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The Paperback Vigilante

from Villon Films PRO on March 20, 2023 1 video

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Biography of E. Howard Hunt, CIA spy, paperback author, and Watergate conspirator. Beginning his career as a writer of fiction, E. Howard Hunt joined the CIA soon after its formation after the end of World War II. He turned his fertile imagination to composing plots for the CIA, notably in Guatemala,…

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MUTZENBACHER

from ruth beckermann PRO on February 21, 2023 1 video

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Seit mehr als hundert Jahren wird der Roman „Josefine Mutzenbacher oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne“ wegen seiner lustvollen Darstellung kindlicher und weiblicher Sexualität kontrovers besprochen. Anonym publiziert und über viele Jahrzehnte dem österreichischen…

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Counterpoint: The U-2 Story

from Villon Films PRO on March 14, 2023 1 video

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The 1960 U-2 incident, told through the story of spies on different sides of the Iron Curtain, one of whom is the CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers. This tells the story of an American pilot who was shot down in a U-2 spy plane over Soviet Union and a Norwegian fisherman, Selmer Nilsen, who used a carnival…

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Anatomy of Violence

from Villon Films PRO on February 14, 2023 1 video

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The meeting in London of the Symposium on the Dialectics of Liberation and the Demystification of Violence. Organized by R.D.Laing, with Allen Ginsberg, Paul Sweezey, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, Stokely Carmichael, Michael X, Obi Egbuna, Carolee Schneemann and more. An important record of the spectrum…

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