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Showing 1 - 10 of 16 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Late 20th Century (World History)
Another Paradise
Fifty years ago the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place in order to lease the largest island to the US Navy so that it could install a military base. Now Chagossian exiles embark on a struggle to return home.
Andana Films | 2019 | 82 minutes
Belfast Girls
BELFAST GIRLS is a quiet, powerful story of two young women growing up in a city where neighbors are cut off from each other by permanent concrete and corrugated iron screens. These so-called “peace walls” have also become mental walls, dividing one community from another. Living in different worlds within the same city, Mairéad Mc Ilkenny and Christine Savage share the legacy of 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland. With insightful clarity, Swedish director Malin Andersson reveals how, in their daily struggles and triumphs, these two strong women have more in common with each other than they have differences.
Women Make Movies | 2006 | 58 minutes
Berliner Ballade
Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.
Icarus Films | 1990 | 29 minutes
Blue Helmet
François Crémieux served as a French UN peacekeeper near the Bosnian town of Bihać. He never saw combat, but he was left deeply shaken by the experience.
Icarus Films | 1995 | 25 minutes
Far from Vietnam
An epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam, initiated and edited by Chris Marker.
Icarus Films | 1967 | 115 minutes
Frenemies
Presents a balanced portrait of Cuban life today and a compelling argument for why the US should lift the devastating 60-year embargo.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 87 minutes
Gorbachev. Heaven
Director Vitaly Mansky's portrait of the storied Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev wherein he presents his final testimony.
Icarus Films | 2021 | 100 minutes
Portugal '74
In the early 1970s, when Portugal was still under the authoritarian rule of Europe’s longest-lasting dictatorship, a handful of military officers decided to risk everything to try to free their country. In the shadow of the regime, they devised a coup d’état like no other. From that coup, a revolution blossomed: the Carnation Revolution.
Cinétévé | 2024 | 52 minutes
Prime Time in the Camps
Chris Marker's documentary about a group of Bosnian refugees who produce their own news show inside their camp.
Icarus Films | 1993 | 28 minutes
Putin's Witnesses
Examines the early life of Vladimir Putin and the political machine that brought him to power.
Icarus Films | 2018 | 102 minutes
