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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: | Approach of dawn. [portraits of Maya women forging peace in Guatemala] |
| Director: | Gayla Jamison |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (52 min.) . sd., col. ; 1 2 in. |
| Imprint: | Lightfoot Films . Maryknoll, N.Y. . Maryknoll World Productions [distributor], 1997 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Produced, directed and written by Gayla Jamison ; Lightfoot Films. Editor, Amy Carey Linton ; cinematography, Rene Rojo, Mark Peterson, Roberto Cameros, Tim Hickman ; original music, Chip Epsten.
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| Plot: | Documents the story of Maya women of Guatemala and their role in the human rights struggle. Focuses on three women whose lives have been shattered by Guatemala-s genocidal civil war.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala. Mayas. Maya women. Human rights. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Aro Tolbukhin
en la mente del asesino / Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer |
| Director: | Agustí Villaronga |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in DVD (Region 2 PAL) |
| Imprint: | Barcelona : Oberon Cinematográfica ; Barcelona : distribuido por Laurenfilm, 2003 |
| Language: | Spanish or Catalan with optional subtitles in English or French
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| Notes: | Una pelicula de Agustí Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann, Isaac P. Racine ; productor, Antonio Chavarrías ; presentan [de] Oberon Cinematográfica, Altavista Films ; con la participación de Canal+, TVE Televisión Española, Televisió de Catalunya, Moro Films, Lestes Films, Bias Post. Participants: Daniel Giménez Cacho ; Carmen Beato ; Zóltán Józan ; Mariona Castillo ; Xhévdet Bajraj ; Margarita Farran./ Director of photography, Guillermo Granillo ; editing, Ernest Blasi ; music, José Manuel Pagan.
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| Plot: | A Spanish/Mexican co-production, Aro Tolbukhin En La Mente Del Asesino (In the Mind of a Killer) is a semi-documentary about the life of serial killer Aro Tolbukhin. Interviews and reenactments tell the story of a Hungarian man who was sentenced to death before a firing squad in Guatemala. He grew up in Budapest with his twin sister Stella and fled to join the merchant marines during the Russian invasion of 1956. After he was arrested for burning seven people alive in 1981, he confessed to nearly 20 other murders during the Guatemala Civil War. Commentary is provided by Carmen Beato, a former nun who lived with Tolbukhin in Alta Verapaz. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
En 1981 el húngaro Aro Tolbukhin es detenido por quemar vivas a siete personas en la enfermería de la Misión del Di-vino Redentor en Guatemala. Tras su detención, Aro Tol-bukhin confesó además haber asesinado a cinco mujeres y calcinar sus cadáveres. También se autoinculpó de los asesinatos de otras diecisiete mujeres, todas ellas embarazadas, realizados a lo largo de los quince años en que trabajó como marino mercante. En la in-vestigación judicial, al examinar los expedientes de estos casos que aún es-taban por resolver, no tardaron en encontrarse sustanciosas incoherencias que ponían en duda la autoría que Tolbukhin tanto insistía en atribuirse. Fue conde-nado a muerte. Poco antes de su ejecución Aro Tolbukhin es entrevistado por dos documentalistas franceses. A partir de este material la película intenta pro-fundizar en este personaje y en las causas de su comportamiento.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Documentary Films. Guatemala. Mexico. Spain. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Buscando al hombre sagrado / making the holy man |
| Director: | Óscar Urrutia Lazo |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (45 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Mexico: Conacultura 2005 |
| Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Documentary by Oscar Urrutia
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| Plot: | Documentary that takes us into the unknown world of the contemporary Mayan ceremonies dedicated to the rain, to the field and to the animals, lead by the mythical sacred man: The H' men. This documentary stands from a different point of view, keeping away from the anthropological or ethnographical parameters, which have been shaping this kind of investigations, staying away from the folk vision and avoiding a superficial or esoterically approach.
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| Subjects: | Documentary Films. Mexico. Guatemala Maya culture |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Caracol: the lost Maya city |
| Director: | Robert Charlton |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (59 min., 8 sec.) ; sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | Northbrook, IL : Distributed by Coronet/MTI Film & Video, 1988 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Pyramid Films ; producer, Leigh Shipley ; director, Robert Charlton ; writers, Robert Schyberg, David Keaton. Artist, T.W. Rutledge; computer graphics, HBJ Video, Glenn Schlesinger, Libby Duncan, Vicky Bowlin; editor, A. Hank Nadler; narrator, Ricardo Montalban; music, Ari Frankel.
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| Plot: | Shows anthropologists and archeologists searching the jungles of Belize for the ancient Mayan city, Caracol.
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| Subjects: | Documentary Films. Guatemala. Belize. Caracol Site (Belize). Excavations (Archaeology). |
| 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: | The Darklight of dawn. |
| Director: | Edgardo Reyes. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (VHS) (28 min.) . sd., col. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley, CA . Educational Film & Video Project, 1986 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Insite Video ; a production for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission USA. Producer researcher, Edgardo Reyes ; editor, Gillian Brown.
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| Plot: | Discussion of military oppression in Guatemala. A documentary on the human rights situation in Guatemala today.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala. Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA. Civil rights |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Dawn of the Maya |
| Director: | Graham Townsley |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | United States: National Geographic Television & Film, c2004. |
| Language: | English; Closed-captioned.
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| Notes: | Originally broadcast as a National Geographic special in 2003. Narrator, Gavin MacFadyen. National Geographic ; produced, written & directed by Graham Townsley. Editor, Bonnie Cutler-Shear ; cinematography, Gary Grieg, Andrew Young, Martin Asturias ; music, Guy Dagul.
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| Plot: | For centuries the rain forests of Guatemala guarded an astonishing secret. Here can be found the cradle of one of the most remarkable civilizations the world has ever seen. Explore with National Geographic the last frontier of knowledge about the Ancient Maya as archaeologists uncover evidence of an early Maya culture more dynamic and sophisticated than ever believed.
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| Subjects: | Documentary Films. Mexico. Guatemala. Mayas History. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Discovering Dominga |
| Director: | Patricia Flynn |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (57 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (DVD, Region 1) |
| Imprint: | Berkeley, CA : Berkeley Media, 2002 |
| Language: | glish; some scenes in Spanish with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Jaguar House Films ; produced in association with the Independent Television Service and KQED-TV ; produced and directed by Patricia Flynn ; co-producer, Mary Jo McConahay. Director of photography, Vicente Franco ; editor, Jennifer Chinlund ; music, Todd Boekelheide.
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| Plot: | Denese Becker, born Dominga Sic Ruiz, is a survivor of the 1982 Rio Negro massacre in Guatemala. Nine years old at the time of the massacre, during which both of her parents were killed, Denese was adopted by an American family and raised in Iowa. As an adult she begins to confront her memories and nightmares, returning to Guatemala almost twenty years after the massacre and ultimately becoming an advocate for the victims and survivors at great personal cost.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. United States. Adoptees: Iowa, Algona. Guatemala. Civil War, 1960-1996. Personal narratives. Atrocities. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Goodbye baby: adoptions from Guatemala |
| Director: | Patricia Goudvis |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (58 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Harriman, NY : New Day Films, c2005 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | A documentary by Patricia Goudvis ; New Day Films ; producer, director, writer, Patricia Goudvis ; additional writer, Alice Stone. Camera and sound, William Turnley ; editor, Alice Stone ; original music, Claudio Ragazzi.
Note Special features include: clips from other documentaries by Patricia Goudvis: If the mango tree could speak; Dirty secrets: Jennifer, Everado & the CIA in Guatemala; scene selection.
Performer Narrator, Patricia Goudvis.
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| Plot: | "The number of adoptions from Guatemala to the US has risen dramatically in recent years, as has the controversy. What is seen as an act of love by adoptive parents is viewed with suspicion inside Guatemala, and the film examines the ramifications that money, private lawyers, media coverage and women's rights have on the adoption process. Informed by the filmmaker's own experiences - she's the mother of two children adopted from Guatemala, where she's lived on and off during the past 25 years - Goodbye Baby provides an insightful look into the dramatic and sometimes difficult world of intercountry adoption.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala. Adoption. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Knorosov : el desciframiento de la escritura Maya / Knorosov: the decipherment of the Mayan script |
| Director: | Eduardo Herrera F. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (57 min.) ; sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | New York : First Run/Icarus Films, c2000. |
| Language: | English, Russian and Spanish with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | CONACULTA ; un documental de Tiahoga Ruge y Eduardo Herrera ; dirección, Tiahoga Ruge y Eduardo Herrera F. ; guión, Olaga Cáceres, Tiahoga Ruge, Eduardo Herrera F. Credits Director of photography and editor, Eduardo Herrera F.
Performer Narrators: Heather Dreshner, Danny Laird.
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| Plot: | Documentary on Yuri V. Knorosov, who in 1952 while working at the Russian Institute of Ethnography discovered the key to the Mayan writing system. Includes interviews with Knorozov and Michael Coe, author of Breaking the Maya code.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Mexico. Guatemala. Mayas. Mayan languages -- Writing. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Lost kingdoms of the Maya. |
| Director: | Christine Weber |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd. (stereo.), col. ; 1/2 in.. VHS format. |
| Imprint: | [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic Video, c1993. |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Produced by the National Geographic Society ; produced and directed by Christine Weber ; written by Patrick Prentice. Narrator, Susan Sarandon.
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| Plot: | An exploration of the forests of Central America and Mexico on the trail of the ancient Maya. Distinguished scientists unearth artifacts, reconstruct cities and decipher the hieroglyphics of an extraordinary civilization.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Mexico. Guatemala. Mayas |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Maya lord of the jungle. |
| Director: | John Angier. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (58 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.VHS format |
| Imprint: | United States: PBS Video, c1988, 1980. |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Public Broadcasting Associates ; written, produced and directed by John Angier. Videocassette release of an episode from the 1980 television series, Odyssey. Production manager, Felipe Borrero ; cinematographer, Peter Hoving ; editor, David Berenson ; animation, Jed Schwartz. Richard Provost.
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| Plot: | Visits ancient sites on the Yucatan Peninsula where new findings are forcing a reappraisal of the past of the Mayans. Researchers display and interpret their findings, setting aside the errors of the past, and quietly working a revolution in pre-Columbian archaeology.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Mexico. Guatemala. Mayas. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Mayan voices, American lives. |
| Director: | Olivia Lucia Carrescia. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (56 min.), sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 1994 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | produced, directed and edited by Olivia Lucia Carrescia. Cinematographer, Vincent Galindez.
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| Plot: | Mayan refugees from Guatemala, escaping political repression at home, have fled to the United States. In the last 10 years, 5,000-6,000 Mayas have settled in a small town of 3500 residents, Indiantown, Fla. Presents a picture of the adjustment problems to a new country and a different culture through interviews with the Indian refugees and other townspeople.
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| Subjects: | Documentary Films. Guatemala. United States. Florida -- Indiantown. Mayas. Social conditions. Political refugees. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Plunder! |
| Director: | Jim Gilmore |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (58 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | Alexandria, VA : PBS Video [distributor], 1990 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | WGBH, Boston ; produced and directed by Jim Gilmore. Originally broadcast on Frontline on PBS, May 8, 1990. Writers, Carl Nagin, William Cran ; executive producer, David Fanning.
Performer Host, Judy Woodruff.
Will Lyman.
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| Plot: | Depicts tombs, from Mexco to Peru, being plundered for their treasures of ancient civilizations. Investigates the international network of looters and smugglers that supplies the pre-Columbian art market.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Latin America. Guatemala. Mexico. Peru. Civilization, Ancient -- Art -- Central America. |
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| Title: | Popol vuh: the creation myth of the Maya |
| Director: | Patricia Amlin |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide. VHS |
| Imprint: | Berkeley, CA : University of California Extention Center for Media and Independent Learning, 1986 |
| Language: | Narration in English
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| Notes: | By Patricia Amlin ; conceived, produced, directed by Patricia Amlin ; animation, Patricia Amlin, et al.. The drawings which animate this film are taken directly from classic Maya pottery. Scripted by Patricia Amlin, from translations of the Popol vuh by Munro S. Edmonson and Adrian Recinos, Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley. Background about the Popol vuh, and symbolism in the story ([1] sheet ; 38 x 44 cm.) which accompanies film is inserted in container. Camera, Martha Gorzycki ; editors, Jennifer Chinlund, Yasha Agensky ; narrator, Larry George ; music, Todd Boekelheide ; script consultants, Luis Valdez, Tony Shearer
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| Plot: | An animated film which uses original images drawn by the Quiche Maya indians in the seventh century on funerary pottery to illustrate the Popol vuh, which is the sacred book of the Maya and includes their creation story and birth of the hero twins.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala. Religion. Mayas. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Precarious peace: God & Guatemala |
| Director: | Rudy Nelson, Shirley Nelson |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (70 min.) ; sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in, DVD |
| Imprint: | Worcester, PA : Distributed by Gateway Films/Vision Video, c2003 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Written and produced by Rudy and Shirley Nelson ; produced in association with Quest Productions and the Catticus Corporation. Editor, Kate Purdie ; music, Todd Nelson.
Note Based on: Recovering memory : Guatemalan churches and the challenge of peacemaking / Paul Jeffrey.
Performer Hosts and narrators: Martin E. Marty, Dennis Smith, Paul Jeffrey, Matt Samson.
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| Plot: | Explores the violence of the civil war in Guatemala, seen through the lives of a Mayan family, and the relation of religion to past and current political and social problems. Focuses on the country's current problems of economic, racial and religious marginalization.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1996. Church and social problems. Religion and politics. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Rigoberta Menchu : broken silence |
| Director: | Felix Zurita |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (25 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. |
| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, c1993. |
| Language: | Spanish and English, with English voiceovers and subtitles.
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| Notes: | A presentation of Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; directed by Felix Zurita ; produced by Alba-Films. Originally produced by Alba-Films for Channel Four in 1992. Camera, John Van Bilsen, Rob Brouwer, Ortolf Karla ; editor, Rene Gaitan ; music, Salvador Bustos. Music performed by Groupo Brahms.
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| Plot: | Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, speaks about her efforts to unite indigenous people, attain rights, fight discrimination, and integrate the Guatemalan parliament with indigenous and non-indigenous people.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Vintage Guatemala films
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| Director: | n/a |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (10 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD |
| Imprint: | United States : Quality Information Publishers, c2007. |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Contents: Guatemala training base (1961, 1 min.) -- Menace of Guatemala (1934, 9 min.
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| Plot: | The first compilation is Newsreel footage from April 19th, 1961 that discusses the possibility of Cuban soldiers training in Guatemala. Feature shows footage of Guatemalan culture, people, and places. Includes scenes of weaving, fishing, food preparation and bartering for goods.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala. Short Films. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | What in the world?. People of developing nations: Guatemala, Human price of coffee |
| Director: | Rodney Rice |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (26 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, 2006 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Originally produced in 2004. KMF Productions for RTE. Script writer and narrator, Rodney Rice ; assistant producer, Mick Molloy ; photography, Ken O'Mahoney ; editor, Seamus Callagy ; director, Ruth Meehan ; Executive producer, Peadar King. Narrator, Rodney Rice ; interviewees, Pedro Jusilic, Rainero Sicajy, Martin Quito, Rebecca Salag, Felipe Castro, Delfino Yac Joj.
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| Plot: | Owners of small coffee farms and members of the the coffee cooperative Manos Campesinas are interviewed in this documentary about coffee production in Guatemala. Thanks to the Fair Trade Market, a European organization that guarantees a price for the farmers and finds buyers, cooperative members are earning 40% more than independent small farmers who sell on the local market.
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| Subjects: | Documentary Films. Guatemala. Coffee industry. Cooperative societies. Anti-globalization movement. Manos Campesinas (Cooperative). |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | When the mountains tremble. |
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| Format: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. VHS. |
| Imprint: | New York : New Yorker Films, 1984 |
| Language: | In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | [Skylight Productions.] Updated Nobel Peace Prize version. Storyteller, Rigoberta Menchu.
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| Plot: | A documentary describing the struggle of the Indian peasantry in Guatemala against state and foreign oppression. Uses a variety of formats--interviews, direct address, newsreels, re-inactments, video transmissions, and live footage shot at great hazard. Loosely centered on the experiences of a 23 year old Indian woman now living in exile.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Guatemala. Politics and government, 1945-1985. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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