Central America: A Gamble on Terror 1981, 1981.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Nashevnika, Illya, director.

Losaiov, Sergey, Script.

Timorfavov, Igor, Script.

Iminaiov, Aleksandr, Camera.

Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow, production company.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Revolution in Cuba & Latin America

Wars & Revolutions

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (video file 0:27:52) : Sound, Colour.

Place of Publication:

1981,

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital.

Summary:

Documentary film focusing on the role that the US government plays in Latin America. [WARNING: includes some disturbing images.]. Features interviews with counter-revolutionaries and an ex-CIA member, and footage of political leaders including Reagan and Castro. Philip Agee discusses the secret war being waged by United States at a press conference in Nicaragua. The CIA and US terrorism. Footage of Castro speaking on the 20th Anniversary of Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs). Scenes of the Sandino National Liberation Front and US news report of a chain reaction in Latin America. Footage of President Reagan and Secretary Haig describing revolutionaries as terrorists. Stock footage of CIA buildings and Cuban counter-revolutionaries. Saboteurs recruited in Miami are interviewed. Footage of soldiers training for guerrilla warfare. B&W footage of Castro and a Senate Commission questioning Richard Helms, former CIA chief, about assassination attempts on Castro. A man shot dead in the street, juxtaposed with Nicaraguan troops. Footage of dictator Somoza and an interview about torture, intercut with images. Agee confirms that the CIA are in contact with the Salvadoran junta. Footage of Duarte in El Salvador and civilians with their hands raised in surrender. Scenes of weapons being prepared and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front fighting to the sounds of a Chilean revolution song. Official statistics of tortured and killed by international terrorism.

Credits:

Contributors: Losaiov, Sergey; Timorfavov, Igor; Iminaiov, Aleksandr.

Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on 17 October, 2017).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.