A biographical film about Nelson Mandela’s journey from anti-apartheid activist, to prisoner, then South African president.
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.
Peter Davis' documentary Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid was made in 1985, when she was in exile in Brandfort, South Africa.
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…
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'.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Documentary shot inside Royal Hospital Chelsea, a London home for pensioned and veteran soldiers. A frank look at life in the home with interviews amongst residents and the buildings where they live.
Through a series of interviews, we're given insight into the roles that race and immigration played in mid-1960s British society. Forced to confront the reality that new migrants were not only unwelcome, but also not seen as social equals. Impressively, the film gives voice to the immigrants themselves;…
An overview of the island nation of Jamaica in 1964. Featuring life and leisure, education and a visit to the Headquarters of the Rastafarian Movement and African Recruitment Centre. Featuring a piece where Ras Sam Brown speaks and people learn the Amharic language. Founders of The National Dance Theatre…
