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  Out Of The Silence: Fighting For Human Rights

  Latinx

  Documentary made up of narration, archive footage, and current footage and interviews highlighting human rights struggles. The first half focuses on the victorious fight for human rights in Czechoslovakia, concentrating on methods of underground information dissemination, including samizdat literature and The Video Journal created by Czech dissidents. The second half focuses on the ongoing struggle for human rights in Guatemala. This main concentration is on the human rights workers and the Guatemalan government’s attempts to squelch them through beatings, kidnappings, and killings.

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  [The 90’s raw: Laura Flanders]

  American Way, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Interview with Laura Flanders (1961-), prominent feminist journalist who was born in Great Britain, about what the rest of the world thinks of America. “The British, being the falling empire that they are, revel in a sort of patronizing attitude towards the rest of the world and in particular, the United States.” She also talks about common American attitudes towards the British, claiming that a British accent is practically synonymous with intelligence in America, but says that “the British deserve more suspicion than that.”

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  [The 90’s raw: World Summit for Children]

  Eddie Becker, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Mostly tape from the World Summit for Children: people give speeches and musical acts play.