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Code Name: Butterflies
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directed by Cecilia Domeyko, fl. 1995; produced by Cecilia Domeyko, fl. 1995 (Privately Published, 2008), 1 hour 1 mins
A veces la bravura para se hacer la revolución proviene de donde menos lo esperas. Em la isla caribeña, de la República Dominicana, 1960, há un pueblo asediado, sufriendo bajo la cruel tiranía de Rafael Trujillo, el dictador más sanguinario de la historia latinoamericana. Tres bellas y notables hermanas - Pa...
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directed by Cecilia Domeyko, fl. 1995; produced by Cecilia Domeyko, fl. 1995 (Privately Published, 2008), 1 hour 1 mins
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Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
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directed by Jim Burroughs, fl. 1981-2010; produced by Suzanne Bauman, fl. 1982-2013 and Carol Polakoff (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1987, originally published 1986), 1 hour
Filmed on location at La Plata, Castro's former guerrilla headquarters- the first time any foreign film crew had been permitted there - the documentary examines the origins of Castro's revolution, and its ultimate successes and failures. It places U.S.-Cuban relations within the context of history, dating back to...
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directed by Jim Burroughs, fl. 1981-2010; produced by Suzanne Bauman, fl. 1982-2013 and Carol Polakoff (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1987, originally published 1986), 1 hour
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Fidel
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directed by Irving Saraf, 1932-2012 and Saul Landau, 1936-2013; produced by Saul Landau, 1936-2013, Documentary Film Company and National Film Preservation Board (Burbank, CA: Cinema Libre Studio, 2012), 1 hour 36 mins

FIDEL provides a unique view of Cuba’s controversial and most polarizing leader. In 1968, Castro took filmmaker and activist Saul Landau on a week-long jeep ride through the eastern mountains. There, he plays baseball with a group of peasants, visits his pre-school and trades jokes with a 98-year old man. Fidel...

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directed by Irving Saraf, 1932-2012 and Saul Landau, 1936-2013; produced by Saul Landau, 1936-2013, Documentary Film Company and National Film Preservation Board (Burbank, CA: Cinema Libre Studio, 2012), 1 hour 36 mins
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Mao's Great Famine
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directed by Patrick Cabouat; produced by Arturo Mio, fl. 2009, Radio Television Belge Francophone and DERIVES (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2012), 53 mins
Between 1958 and 1962, China lived through tragedy on an epic scale. The “Great Leap Forward” – conceived by Mao so that China could drive industrial output ahead of Great Britain and achieve autonomy from the might of the neighbouring USSR – led to a catastrophic famine resulting in the death of between 3...
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directed by Patrick Cabouat; produced by Arturo Mio, fl. 2009, Radio Television Belge Francophone and DERIVES (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2012), 53 mins
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Red Lines
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directed by Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002 and Oliver Lukacs, fl. 2013; produced by Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002, Spark Media (District of Columbia: Spark Media, 2014), 1 hour 39 mins
The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012 as two young, unlikely Syrian activists launch a radical plan for bringing democracy to their country. Under threat of death, they organize when no one else will. Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, of...
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directed by Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002 and Oliver Lukacs, fl. 2013; produced by Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002, Spark Media (District of Columbia: Spark Media, 2014), 1 hour 39 mins
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El Salvador: Portraits in A Revolution
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directed by Laura Jackson, fl. 2000; produced by Laura Jackson, fl. 2000 and Betsy Morgan (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1994, originally published 1992), 57 mins
This film documents the grassroots nature of revolutionary democracy and the courage of the ordinary people of El Salvador. In the 1980's, thousands of Salvadorans were forced to flee their homeland to refugee camps in Honduras. After nine years in the camps, they made a decision unprecedented in refugee history....
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directed by Laura Jackson, fl. 2000; produced by Laura Jackson, fl. 2000 and Betsy Morgan (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1994, originally published 1992), 57 mins
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When Castro Seized the Hilton
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directed by Bjarte Thoresen; produced by Bente Olav (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2010, originally published 2009), 54 mins
This documentary, by Bjarte Thoresen, is about the takeover of the Havana Hilton by Fidel Castro for his revolutionary headquarters only one year after the hotel opened.
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directed by Bjarte Thoresen; produced by Bente Olav (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2010, originally published 2009), 54 mins
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Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story
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produced by Rosemarie Reed (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001), 59 mins
Anna Larina was the young bride of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the top ten Bolsheviks in the early years of the Russian Revolution. This documentary is based on her memorable autobiography, This I Cannot Forget, which she wrote late in life after being imprisoned for almost twenty years in the Russian gulag. Larina's...
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produced by Rosemarie Reed (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001), 59 mins
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