Sankara / South Productions for Channel Four in association with RTVE (Spain) and SBS (Australia).

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bakupa-Kanyinda, Balufu, director.

Hay, Jenny, producer.

Skalon, Anna de, producer.

South Productions, producer.

Channel Four (Great Britain), producer.

Radiotelevisión Española, producer.

Special Broadcasting Service (Australia), producer.

First Run/Icarus Films, distributor.

Series:

South (Series)

South

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Sankara, Thomas.

Presidents--Burkina Faso--Biography.

Presidents.

Burkina Faso--History.

Burkina Faso.

History.

Burkina Faso--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Biographies.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (20 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : First Run Icarus Films, [1991]

Language Note:

In French with English subtitles.

System Details:

VHS - NTSC.

analog

magnetic

VHS

NTSC

Summary:

Film profiles the former President of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara who emerged as an idealist in a generation of young people concerned with material wealth. In office, he engineered drastic improvements, from the symbolic change of the country's name to providing real health care for the country's children. On October 15, 1987, he was assassinated in a coup engineered by fellow officers.

Credits:

Director, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda ; series producers, Jenny Hay, Anna de Skalon.

Notes:

Title on cassette label and container: South, Sankara.

Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.

OCLC:

27304876