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News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Demonstrations in Prague

Date released

29 Sep 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

486A

NoS ID

009260

Story no

2 / 11

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Demonstrations in Prague. SHOTLIST: In Prague, citizens hold demonstrations in favour of a military dictatorship.

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Peron Falls

Date released

3 Oct 1955

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

55/79

NoS ID

106691

Story no

5 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Argentine [sic] celebrates end of Peron dictatorship after four-day civil war.

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Greece to enter European Community (1979)

Genre

Interview; News report

It has been announced that Greece will join the European Community. Agne Pantalouri of the Greek Embassy in London describes how, with the fall of the dictatorship in Greece, the country was ready to join....

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The disappeared remembered in Argentina (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the weekly demonstration by women remembering The Disappeared, those who went missing under the rule of the military dictatorship in Argentina. With comment from the women (not identified). Male...

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News & Sports Pageant of Movietone by Leslie Mitchell with contributions by Alan Howland & Phylis Shepherd: Political Battle Rocks New Jersey

Date released

20 Jun 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

472

NoS ID

008913

Story no

2 / 14

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Jersey Dictatorship. SHOTLIST: Major Frank Hague leads thousands of his supporters in a monster night rally against reds and for Americanism. Night shots.

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Pakistani President dies in plane crash (1988)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified speaker on regime of Pakistan’s President Zia after his death in a suspicious plane crash. He describes it as a military dictatorship shored up by the USA. He has a bleak view of the future of...

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Architecture of Fear, The (1990 Video)

Director

Jill Fullerton-Smith

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Examines Iraqi architecture and looks at the momuments which Saddam Hussein has erected in Baghdad to reflect his dictatorship.

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Your Neighbour’s son: The Making of a Torturer (1982 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 65 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Looks at the training of conscripts in KESA, the military training centre at the time of the 1967-74 Greek dictatorship. Draws on the testimony of former conscripts to reconstruct the process which...

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Chile: Culture Under the Bayonet (1990 Video)

aka: Broken Silence

Director

Alex Anderson

Producer

Tariq Ali

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Explores the survival of Chilean culture during and after the Pinochet dictatorship. Singers, painters of murals and embroiderers of miniature tapestries are interviewed.

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Missing Picture, The (2014)

Director

Rithy Panh

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £13.99

In this documentary, Rithy Panh uses archival footage and clay figures to recreate the terrible acts that Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed under the dictatorship of Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979.

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