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6 Battle for the Gulf, 4 of 6, The 19th Province
in 6 Battle for the Gulf, 4 of 6 (London, England: SW Pictures, 2001), 51 mins
The Cairo conference, the diplomatic offensive, the exodus of refugees from Kuwait, the military mobilization and the Allied decision to go on the offensive on November 8th, 1990. The occupation of Kuwait, the organisation of the resistance, the military build-up of 700,000 troops and the final diplomatic rounds....
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The Cairo conference, the diplomatic offensive, the exodus of refugees from Kuwait, the military mobilization and the Allied decision to go on the offensive on November 8th, 1990. The occupation of Kuwait, the organisation of the resistance, the military build-up of 700,000 troops and the final diplomatic rounds. The Geneva conference. The air war, the retaliatory Scud missile attacks on Israel and the ground offensive to the moment of Iraq’s s...
The Cairo conference, the diplomatic offensive, the exodus of refugees from Kuwait, the military mobilization and the Allied decision to go on the offensive on November 8th, 1990. The occupation of Kuwait, the organisation of the resistance, the military build-up of 700,000 troops and the final diplomatic rounds. The Geneva conference. The air war, the retaliatory Scud missile attacks on Israel and the ground offensive to the moment of Iraq’s surrender.
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Content Type
Documentary
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Andrew Solomon, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
SW Pictures
Series
6 Battle for the Gulf
Speaker / Narrator
Andrew Solomon, 1963-
Person Discussed
Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, 1944-2012, Ebraheem M. H. Behbahani, fl. 1990, Abdullah Al-Khandari, fl. 1990, Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, 1926-, Salem Al-Dayed, fl. 1990, Mahmoud Al-Doussari, fl. 1990, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 1930-2008, Barbara Bodine, 1948-, Salem Abdulaziz Al Sabah, fl. 1990, Tariq Aziz, 1936-2000, George H. W. Bush, 1924-2018, James Addison Baker, 1930-, Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006, No...
Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, 1944-2012, Ebraheem M. H. Behbahani, fl. 1990, Abdullah Al-Khandari, fl. 1990, Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, 1926-, Salem Al-Dayed, fl. 1990, Mahmoud Al-Doussari, fl. 1990, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 1930-2008, Barbara Bodine, 1948-, Salem Abdulaziz Al Sabah, fl. 1990, Tariq Aziz, 1936-2000, George H. W. Bush, 1924-2018, James Addison Baker, 1930-, Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006, Norman Schwarzkopf, 1934-, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 1929-
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Iraq (1970s - Present), International sanctions, Diplomatic missions, Air raids, Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988, History, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Law, British, Americans, Iraqis, Kuwaitis, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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6 Battle for the Gulf, 5 of 6, A Different Kind of War
in 6 Battle for the Gulf, 5 of 6 (London, England: SW Pictures, 2001), 50 mins
The air war by the Allies begins. The Allies started jamming Baghdad’s radar defences. The jamming gave the game away. Iraqi radars were blinded, but 3,000 anti-aircraft guns and 60 missile batteries began firing wildly into the sky. Allied missiles destroyed the main telephone tower. Another laser-guided bomb h...
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The air war by the Allies begins. The Allies started jamming Baghdad’s radar defences. The jamming gave the game away. Iraqi radars were blinded, but 3,000 anti-aircraft guns and 60 missile batteries began firing wildly into the sky. Allied missiles destroyed the main telephone tower. Another laser-guided bomb hit the headquarters controlling Baghdad’s air defences. Other pilots destroyed government ministries and a key communications tower....
The air war by the Allies begins. The Allies started jamming Baghdad’s radar defences. The jamming gave the game away. Iraqi radars were blinded, but 3,000 anti-aircraft guns and 60 missile batteries began firing wildly into the sky. Allied missiles destroyed the main telephone tower. Another laser-guided bomb hit the headquarters controlling Baghdad’s air defences. Other pilots destroyed government ministries and a key communications tower. With Baghdad’s air defence headquarters destroyed and its radar system in chaos, hundreds of Iraq’s fighters couldn’t operate. Only a few struggled into the air. With hundreds of allied aircraft flying, AWACS planes packed with computer equipment helped control the battle. On the first night the coalition armada systematically attacked Iraq’s war machine. The factories that made chemical and biological weapons, the Scud missile plants – in all over 200 different targets were hit. It was a new benchmark in the history of warfare, the first time the world had seen precision bombing on a vast scale. And defying all expectations, only one allied pilot, an American, had been killed. With air superiority established over the Iraqis, the coalition air planners were now confident enough to launch conventional aircraft on massive daylight raids. When Saddam met with his ministers after the first night’s bombing, he had already ordered action he believed would shatter the coalition of Western and Arab countries attacking Iraq. Scud missile launchers hidden in the desert fired at Israel. The Scuds were fired indiscriminately at Israel’s largest city. Saddam calculated the Israelis would retaliate and join the conflict. The Arabs in the coalition would then refuse to fight alongside Israel. The coalition would collapse and so would the war. Soon more Scuds were on the way. Israel’s nuclear forces now went on full alert. Sixty Israeli jets took to the skies. Early warning radar appeared to show Iraqi bombers headed for Israel. In the Pentagon, the defence secretary picked up the hotline to Tel Aviv. Israeli retaliation seemed inevitable. The Israeli Army reported nerve gas in the debris of one of the missiles. Israelis prepared for the worst. Ultimately, none of the eight Scuds that landed proved to have chemical warheads. After some discussion, Baghdad had decided the Israelis might retaliate against a chemical attack with nuclear weapons. The man who would decide what happened next was Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. He and George Bush disliked each other and when Bush telephoned him, Shamir angrily told the president that if America couldn’t stop the Scuds, the Israeli Air Force would. The Israeli Defence Minister, Moshe Arens, told us that Bush said to Shamir, pleaded with Shamir, tried to cajole Shamir that Israel not take any military action, that this would be injurious to the allied cause, that in the final analysis, that this would also be injurious to Israel’s cause. Shamir told us what he said to Bush – “It’s very difficult, Mr. President. It’s very difficult. I don’t know what the day of tomorrow will bring, but at this moment, we will act accordingly, accordingly with your concepts.” On February 21st, forty-eight hours before the ground attack was due, Iraq’s foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, arrived in Moscow. Saddam’s admission that he was willing to withdraw from Kuwait had led to some frantic Soviet diplomacy to save their old ally from defeat. Aziz went straight to the Kremlin. The Soviet president was waiting. Aziz told Gorbachev Saddam wouldn’t accept the U.N. resolutions that called for Iraq to recognize Kuwait’s independence and pay it compensation. But, he said, Iraq would withdraw from Kuwait. Gorbachev thought this was good enough. He called the White House. The president summoned his key advisors to discuss the Soviet offer. If Iraq withdrew, it would mean no bloody ground war, but Saddam would walk away unpunished, his war machine undefeated. At dawn the president called Gorbachev to tell him the deal was unacceptable. Bush’s carefully crafted international coalition was fragmenting. The French president, Francois Mitterrand, called to demand more time for diplomacy. As hundreds of oil wells blazed across Kuwait, the president issued a final ultimatum. Saddam ignored the warning. To obey, he believed, would have humiliated him in the eyes of the Arab world. Within a month of the air war, the ground war by the Allies began to force Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. It was a very short and comprehensive victory.
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Global Issues
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Documentary
Contributor
Andrew Solomon, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
SW Pictures
Series
6 Battle for the Gulf
Speaker / Narrator
Andrew Solomon, 1963-
Person Discussed
Tariq Aziz, 1936-2000, Anatoly S. Chernyaev, 1921-2017, James Taylor, fl. 1991, Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud, 0049-, Adi Al-Mutairi, fl. 1991, Martin Stanton, fl. 1990, Hadhim Ahmad al-Tai, 1942-, Moshe Arens, 1925-2019, Mudar Badran, 1934-, Charles A. Horner, 1936-, Neged Al-Bora'i, fl. 1991, Mustafa Hamarneh, 1953-, Mustafa Khalil, fl. 1991, Dick Cheney, 1941-, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, 1949-, Mahm...
Tariq Aziz, 1936-2000, Anatoly S. Chernyaev, 1921-2017, James Taylor, fl. 1991, Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud, 0049-, Adi Al-Mutairi, fl. 1991, Martin Stanton, fl. 1990, Hadhim Ahmad al-Tai, 1942-, Moshe Arens, 1925-2019, Mudar Badran, 1934-, Charles A. Horner, 1936-, Neged Al-Bora'i, fl. 1991, Mustafa Hamarneh, 1953-, Mustafa Khalil, fl. 1991, Dick Cheney, 1941-, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, 1949-, Mahmoud Hadary, fl. 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931-, Norman Schwarzkopf, 1934-, Bernard Shaw, 1940-, Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009, George H. W. Bush, 1924-2018, Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006
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Iraq (1970s - Present), Escalation (Conflict), Military alliances, Air raids, Persian Gulf War, 1991, Political and Social Movements, War and Violence, History, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Law, Russians, Arabs, Israelis, Iraqis, Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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12 Days, 12 Nights in Damascus
directed by Roshak Ahmad, fl. 2009-2017; produced by Arte France, DOKfilm and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2017), 52 mins
The civil war has raged since 2011 and killed around 250.000 people. Roshak Ahmad is a Kurdish student. In 2013, she films during 12 days of urban combats. In the Al Hajar Al Aswad district, she accompanies the unit of Abu Omar's rebel fighters. They have barricaded themselves in a house. Assad’s snipers have ta...
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directed by Roshak Ahmad, fl. 2009-2017; produced by Arte France, DOKfilm and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2017), 52 mins
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The civil war has raged since 2011 and killed around 250.000 people. Roshak Ahmad is a Kurdish student. In 2013, she films during 12 days of urban combats. In the Al Hajar Al Aswad district, she accompanies the unit of Abu Omar's rebel fighters. They have barricaded themselves in a house. Assad’s snipers have taken up position just 150 metres across the road. There are no civilians left, only the skeletal remains of houses. We witness a house-t...
The civil war has raged since 2011 and killed around 250.000 people. Roshak Ahmad is a Kurdish student. In 2013, she films during 12 days of urban combats. In the Al Hajar Al Aswad district, she accompanies the unit of Abu Omar's rebel fighters. They have barricaded themselves in a house. Assad’s snipers have taken up position just 150 metres across the road. There are no civilians left, only the skeletal remains of houses. We witness a house-to-house battle.
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Global Issues
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Documentary
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Arte France, DOKfilm, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Roshak Ahmad, fl. 2009-2017
Author / Creator
Roshak Ahmad, fl. 2009-2017
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Windrose (Film distributor)
Speaker / Narrator
Roshak Ahmad, fl. 2009-2017
Topic / Theme
Syria (2011 - Present), Soldiers, Living conditions, Attacks (Battles), Civil war, Military strategy, Syrian Civil War, 2011-, Political and Social Movements, War and Violence, Anthropology, Syrians, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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20 Days in Mariupol
directed by Mstyslav Chernov, 1985-; produced by Mstyslav Chernov, 1985-, Derl McCrudden, fl. 1988, Raney Aronson-Rath, fl. 1997 and Michelle Mizner, fl. 2007-2016, Frontline (Television program), Associated Press, Public Broadcasting Service and GBH Boston (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 1 hour 34 mins
Contains graphic violence
The award-winning film from the last international journalists inside the Russian siege of Mariupol. An extraordinary account, seen through the lens of the AP’s Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues documenting the atrocities and their own escape. DISCLAIMER: This program contains graphic language and imagery whic...
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directed by Mstyslav Chernov, 1985-; produced by Mstyslav Chernov, 1985-, Derl McCrudden, fl. 1988, Raney Aronson-Rath, fl. 1997 and Michelle Mizner, fl. 2007-2016, Frontline (Television program), Associated Press, Public Broadcasting Service and GBH Boston (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2023), 1 hour 34 mins
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The award-winning film from the last international journalists inside the Russian siege of Mariupol. An extraordinary account, seen through the lens of the AP’s Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues documenting the atrocities and their own escape. DISCLAIMER: This program contains graphic language and imagery which may not be suitable to all audiences.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mstyslav Chernov, 1985-, Derl McCrudden, fl. 1988, Raney Aronson-Rath, fl. 1997, Michelle Mizner, fl. 2007-2016, Frontline (Television program), Associated Press, Public Broadcasting Service, GBH Boston
Author / Creator
Mstyslav Chernov, 1985-
Date Published / Released
2023
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Speaker / Narrator
Mstyslav Chernov, 1985-
Person Discussed
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 1978-, Vladimir Putin, 1952-
Topic / Theme
Sieges, Bombardment, Death tolls (Casualties), War victims, War casualties, Invasions, Atrocities, Russo-Ukrainian War, 20 February 2014 to present, Ukrainians, Russians
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731: Two Versions of Hell
produced by James T. Hong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 28 mins
This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives t...
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produced by James T. Hong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 28 mins
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This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives the perspective of the Chinese government and describes the horrors and atrocities that occurred during World War II at the facility. Th...
This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives the perspective of the Chinese government and describes the horrors and atrocities that occurred during World War II at the facility. The second half, using almost the exact same footage, describes Unit 731 from the Japanese revisionist perspective which is largely supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Japan. Although its cruel experiments on living people produced thousands of casualties, this activity is still denied by a number of Japanese historians and politicians. Generational change has contributed to the escalating history problem between Japan, China, and the two Koreas. Not only were the majority of Asians born and educated after the war; as a result of the education they received in their own countries, their memories and ideas of the war have become more divergent. Usage of the same shots in both parts of the film ironically demonstrates the potential to misuse film images for political purposes. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
James T. Hong
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Prisoner of war camps, Prisoners of war, Propaganda, Torture, War crimes, History curriculums, War, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Great Leap Forward, China, 1958, War and Violence, Medicine, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Chinese, Japanese, 20th Century in World H...
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Prisoner of war camps, Prisoners of war, Propaganda, Torture, War crimes, History curriculums, War, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Great Leap Forward, China, 1958, War and Violence, Medicine, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Chinese, Japanese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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1971
directed by Tanvir Mokammel, 1955- (Dhaka, Dhaka Division: Tanvir Mokammel, 2011), 3 hours 34 mins
Includes descriptions of violence and sexual assault. This item also contains graphic content.
In the general election of the constituent assembly of Pakistan in December 1970, secular Awami League, led by Bengalee leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won absolute majority. But instead of handing over power to the elected Bengalee representatives, the Pakistan army on 25th March 1971, launched a brutal military cr...
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directed by Tanvir Mokammel, 1955- (Dhaka, Dhaka Division: Tanvir Mokammel, 2011), 3 hours 34 mins
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In the general election of the constituent assembly of Pakistan in December 1970, secular Awami League, led by Bengalee leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won absolute majority. But instead of handing over power to the elected Bengalee representatives, the Pakistan army on 25th March 1971, launched a brutal military crackdown on the Bengalee code named as 'Operation Searchlight'. And since then up to the liberation of Bangladesh in December, for long...
In the general election of the constituent assembly of Pakistan in December 1970, secular Awami League, led by Bengalee leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won absolute majority. But instead of handing over power to the elected Bengalee representatives, the Pakistan army on 25th March 1971, launched a brutal military crackdown on the Bengalee code named as 'Operation Searchlight'. And since then up to the liberation of Bangladesh in December, for long nine months, the marauding Pakistan army perpetrated a genocide in East Pakistan. It is claimed that around three million people were killed, more than two hundred thousand women were raped and about ten million refugees had to flee to India. The Bengalee military and para-military personnel, the youth and the students formed the Freedom Fighters (Muktibahini), who resiliently fought against the Pakistan army and their Islamic collaborators. In December, a full-fledged war broke out between India and Pakistan, and Bangladesh was finally liberated on 16th December as an independent state. Depicting all the main events of the year 1971 Tanvir Mokammel has made a research-based three hour-thirty five minutes (215 minutes) long mega-documentary titled as '1971'. For the people of Bangladesh the year 1971, for its association with the war of independence, has remained a glorious year. But at the same time, as so much carnage happened around, it was also a sad time. The year 1971, for the people of Bangladesh remains, to borrow Charles Dickens' expression— 'it was the best of times, it was the worst of times!' For the documentary Tanvir Mokammel shot 250 hours of footage and interviewed 176 individuals including military commanders, freedom fighters, politicians, diplomats, raped women, refugees and survivors from the mass killings.
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Date Written / Recorded
2011
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Tanvir Mokammel, 1955-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Tanvir Mokammel
Topic / Theme
Bangladesh Liberation War (1971), War, Refugees, Genocide, Sexual assault, Soldiers, Bangladesh Liberation War, March 26-December 16, 1971, Partition of Bengal, 1947, History, Politics & Policy, Documentation of Crimes, Bengali, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Abdelkrim et la guerre du Rif
directed by Daniel Cling, 1963-; produced by Matthieu de Laborde, fl. 2001, Arte France, ISKRA Films and Real Productions (Ivry-sur-Seine, Île-de-France: Iskra, 2010), 50 mins
Officially, the Rif War was fought from 1920 to 1926, to crush the rebellion towards independence led by AbdelKrim in a remote area of Morocco. This war involved hundreds of thousands of men and considerable resources. The Rif War not only called into question the colonial system, but it also marked the place wher...
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directed by Daniel Cling, 1963-; produced by Matthieu de Laborde, fl. 2001, Arte France, ISKRA Films and Real Productions (Ivry-sur-Seine, Île-de-France: Iskra, 2010), 50 mins
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Officially, the Rif War was fought from 1920 to 1926, to crush the rebellion towards independence led by AbdelKrim in a remote area of Morocco. This war involved hundreds of thousands of men and considerable resources. The Rif War not only called into question the colonial system, but it also marked the place where modern savagery developed.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Matthieu de Laborde, fl. 2001, Arte France, ISKRA Films, Real Productions
Author / Creator
Daniel Cling, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Iskra
Speaker / Narrator
René Gallissot, 1934-, Daniel Rivet, 1942-, María Rosa de Madariaga, 1937-2022
Person Discussed
René Gallissot, 1934-, Daniel Rivet, 1942-, María Rosa de Madariaga, 1937-2022, Abd el Krim, 1883-1963
Topic / Theme
Crimes against humanity, Leadership roles, Violence, War victims, War, French, Spanish
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Africa in the 21st Century, Somalia: The Neglected Civil War
produced by NHK International Inc., in Africa in the 21st Century (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 50 mins
Independent since 1960, Somalia has seen virtually constant political upheaval. Chaos still reigns in the capital, Mogadishu, and throughout Somalia. Some eighty percent of the nation is under the power of guerrillas and local warlords. Taking advantage of the chaos, Islamic fundamentalist groups such as al Qaeda...
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produced by NHK International Inc., in Africa in the 21st Century (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 50 mins
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Independent since 1960, Somalia has seen virtually constant political upheaval. Chaos still reigns in the capital, Mogadishu, and throughout Somalia. Some eighty percent of the nation is under the power of guerrillas and local warlords. Taking advantage of the chaos, Islamic fundamentalist groups such as al Qaeda frequently infiltrate. Suspected to be the main financial source for al Qaeda, all assets in the al Barakaat bank, the country’s main...
Independent since 1960, Somalia has seen virtually constant political upheaval. Chaos still reigns in the capital, Mogadishu, and throughout Somalia. Some eighty percent of the nation is under the power of guerrillas and local warlords. Taking advantage of the chaos, Islamic fundamentalist groups such as al Qaeda frequently infiltrate. Suspected to be the main financial source for al Qaeda, all assets in the al Barakaat bank, the country’s main bank, were frozen and remittances from workers abroad to their families at home were stopped, which aggravated the confusion and deepened poverty in the nation. Finally, Somalia has become a target in the post-Afghanistan "war" against terrorism. College Adult
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
NHK International Inc.
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Series
Africa in the 21st Century
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, War, Sociology, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Humanities, Somali, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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All About Darfur
directed by Taghreed Elsanhouri, fl. 2005; produced by Taghreed Elsanhouri, fl. 2005 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2005), 1 hour 22 mins
irector Taghreed Elsanhouri says that she made this film "out of a passionate belief that I was uniquely qualified to tell a story of race because as a northerner in Sudan I know what it is to belong to a dominant group and as a black woman in Britain living with racism I know what it must be like to live marginal...
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directed by Taghreed Elsanhouri, fl. 2005; produced by Taghreed Elsanhouri, fl. 2005 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2005), 1 hour 22 mins
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irector Taghreed Elsanhouri says that she made this film "out of a passionate belief that I was uniquely qualified to tell a story of race because as a northerner in Sudan I know what it is to belong to a dominant group and as a black woman in Britain living with racism I know what it must be like to live marginalized as a minority in Sudan. It is this double consciousness that informs my story." She returns to Sudan, having emigrated to Britain...
irector Taghreed Elsanhouri says that she made this film "out of a passionate belief that I was uniquely qualified to tell a story of race because as a northerner in Sudan I know what it is to belong to a dominant group and as a black woman in Britain living with racism I know what it must be like to live marginalized as a minority in Sudan. It is this double consciousness that informs my story." She returns to Sudan, having emigrated to Britain as a child, to see how the seemingly racially harmonious country of her memories could have become the scene of not one but two of the worst instances of ethnic cleansing in recent African history.Up until now the perilous situation in Sudan has been seen only from outside the country. All About Darfur offers an opportunity to hear it explained by eloquent, diverse even contradictory voices from within Sudan. The director talks to ordinary Sudanese in outdoor tea shops, markets, refugee camps and living rooms about how deeply rooted prejudices could suddenly burst into a wild fire of ethnic violence. She asks how only two months after peace accords were signed ending a twenty year long civil war between the Christian and animist South and an aggressive Islamic regime in the North, war broke out between the ethnic groups in the West, or Darfur, and the government in Khartoum.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Taghreed Elsanhouri, fl. 2005
Author / Creator
Taghreed Elsanhouri, fl. 2005
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
California Newsreel
Topic / Theme
War, Crisis management, Forced migration and expulsion, Colonization, Ethnic cleansing, Darfur Conflict, Sudan, 2003-, Politics & Policy, International Response, Darfurian, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Always on the Run: Internally Displaced People in Karen State
produced by Burma Issues and WITNESS (New York, NY - Brooklyn: WITNESS, 2005), 6 mins
An estimated 540,000 people were internally displaced in eastern Burma, on the run, or living in forced relocation sites. In the video three internally displaced people (IDPs) talk about their hopes and fears for themselves and their children and the impact that being forced to flee for their lives has on their ab...
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produced by Burma Issues and WITNESS (New York, NY - Brooklyn: WITNESS, 2005), 6 mins
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An estimated 540,000 people were internally displaced in eastern Burma, on the run, or living in forced relocation sites. In the video three internally displaced people (IDPs) talk about their hopes and fears for themselves and their children and the impact that being forced to flee for their lives has on their ability to nurture and care for their families. A week after the footage was filmed the offensive reached this area and these IDPs were f...
An estimated 540,000 people were internally displaced in eastern Burma, on the run, or living in forced relocation sites. In the video three internally displaced people (IDPs) talk about their hopes and fears for themselves and their children and the impact that being forced to flee for their lives has on their ability to nurture and care for their families. A week after the footage was filmed the offensive reached this area and these IDPs were forced to flee, again.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Burma Issues, WITNESS
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
WITNESS
Topic / Theme
Burma-Myanmar Conflict (1982-2008), War, Refugees, Internally displaced persons, Burma-Myanmar Conflict, 1982-2008, History, Politics & Policy, Transitional Justice, Documentation of Crimes, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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