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| Title: | Americas in transition |
| Director: | Obie Benz. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (29 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in |
| Imprint: | New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 199-?] |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Americas in Transition, Inc. ; producer and director, Obie Benz. Originally produced in 1981. Credits Narrator, Ed Asner. Awards Blue Ribbon, 1982 American Film & Video Festival.
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| Plot: | Focuses on American military intervention in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Chile, and El Salvador. Discusses the roots of dictatorship, its effects on citizens, movements toward majority rule, and communist influences.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Latin America. Nicaragua. Guatemala. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Chile. El Salvador. Politics and government, 1948-1980.Military relations, United States. Dictators. Communism. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Central America close-up: El Salvador, Guatemala |
| Director: | Joseph Towle. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (22 m.) . sd., col. ; VHS |
| Imprint: | Maryknoll, NY . Maryknoll World Productions, 1990 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Title from label. Accompanying guide includes background information, map, discussion questions, bibliographies, and lists of additional information resources. Participants: Narration: Veronica Gonzalez (Guatemala segment), Fermin Figueroa (El Salvador segment). executive producer, Lawrence Rich. Camera and producer, Joseph Towle.
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| Plot: | As part of a series designed to show U.S. children the different ways young people live in other parts of the world, this video consists of a segment on Guatemala and one on El Salvador. The first program features a 14-year-old Maya girl whose isolated mountain village retains many traditions that strengthen its sense of identity. But their world is changing as a recently constructed road brings new influences to the community and farm land is growing scarce. Soon she will have to make important choices about the direction her life will take. The second segment centers around a 15-year-old boy who is a child of Salvadoran refugee parents and was born in Nicaragua during the civil war of the 1980s. After years of uncertainty, his family has returned to El Salvador to sink roots in a jungle cooperative village of 200 refugee families. Viewers are offered a look at his family, his school, and his village.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala. El Salvador. Children. Refugees. Mayas |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La historia de Marķa / Maria's story |
| Director: | Monona Vali y Pamela Cohen. |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (53 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 /3 4 in. |
| Imprint: | New York : Filmakers Library, 1990, 2005. |
| Language: | Spanish and English subtitled in English
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| Notes: | Camino Film Projects. Producers, Pamela Cohen and Catherine M. Ryan; directors, Monona Vali and Pamela Cohen. Contains live film footage of Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) guerrilla forces in action in El Salvador.
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| Plot: | Documentary based on life and work of Maria Serrano, leader in the guerrilla movement in El Salvador. Shows Maria teaching guerrillas, and planning and carrying out military attacks on government positions. Also features live film footage of Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) guerrilla forces in action in El Salvador.
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| Subjects: | Documentary Films. El Salvador. Guerrillas. Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). Maria Serrano. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Justice and the generals |
| Director: | Gail Pellett |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 2002 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Participants: Written, produced, directed, and narrated by Gail Pellett./ Originally broadcast on PBS February 21, 2002. [Presented by] Gail Pellett Productions and Thirteen WNET.
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| Plot: | On December 2, 1980, three nuns (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazel) and one lay worker (Jean Donovan) were abducted, raped, and murdered by El Salvadoran National Guardsmen. This documentary covers the initial investigation, the trial of the Guardsmen, and later attempts to bring to justice the military leaders (Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, director of the National Guard, and Jose Guillermo Garcia, head of the ministry of defense) who ordered the murders.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. El Salvador. State-sponsored terrorism. Trials (Murder).
Assassination. Investigation
Death squads |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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