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Colonialism and Independence (4)

  • Five Centuries Later ...
    Five Centuries Later ...
    Germán Gutiérrez 1991 53 min
    Five centuries after the "discovery" of America by the Europeans, the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala and Bolivia affront difficult times. What is left of their culture? What will their future hold?
  • Nigeria: Giant in Africa
    Nigeria: Giant in Africa
    Ronald Dick 1960 58 min
    This feature documentary vividly recounts Nigeria's history from pre-European times to the mid-20th century. The film explores the political maturing of Africa's most populous country and depicts the various African cultures that make up the Federation of Nigeria.
  • Salvador Allende Gossens: A Testimony
    Salvador Allende Gossens: A Testimony
    Maurice Bulbulian  &  Michel Gauthier 1974 18 min
    A brief acquaintance with the president of Chile before his assassination in September, 1973. In 1972, several miners from Québec went to Chile to observe mining operations there. They also met with the President of the Republic. Salvador Allende explains, publicly at a meeting of icampanneros r, as well as in a conference with the visitors, the revolutionary socio-economic reforms he envisages for his country, which include nationalization of the copper industry. René Lévesque, Théo Gagné and Joseph Gosselin appear in the film. (A film for all students of political change. With English subtitles).
  • A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
    A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
    Donald McWilliams 2009 1 h 27 min
    This autobiographical documentary revisits the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s. More than 50 years after the conflict, in which the director participated as a young British soldier stationed in Kenya for his national service, he confronts his past with audacity and unflinching self-inquiry.

    Combining McWilliams' own photographic record of the times with original animation and archival imagery, A Time There Was crafts a thoughtful account of the Mau Mau Rebellion – one of the most contentious episodes in Britain’s imperial endgame.