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DARA OF JASENOVAC

February 16, 2021 By Leave a Comment

DARA OF JASENOVAC

DARA OF JASENOVAC is a brutal film about a lesser-known part of the Holocaust. Based on the testimony of survivors, it expounds on Jasenovac, the only Fascist concentration camps in World War II that were not run by the Nazis themselves. Instead, inspired and advised by the Nazis, they were established by the Roman Catholic… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, concentration camp, Croatia, genocide, Holocaust, murder, sadism, Serbia, World War II

ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA

May 20, 2017 By Leave a Comment

ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA

Robert H. Lieberman’s ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA asks difficult questions and provides answers that are as illuminating as they are troubling. His portrait of Cambodia is refracted through the genocide that was inflicted on it by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, a genocide that reduced the number of doctors in in a once prosperous… Read More »

Tagged With: Angkor Wat, baksbat, Cambodia, genocide, Hun Sen, Khmer Rouge, Nixon, Pol Pot, politics, PTSD, secret bombing of Cambodia, Vietnam war

FINDING OSCAR — Ryan Suffern Interview

April 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FINDING OSCAR — Ryan Suffern Interview

For his documentary, FINDING OSCAR, Ryan Suffern started at the end, filming what would be almost the last shot of the story before realizing what a compelling, and timely, piece of history he was witnessing.  We talked about that during our conversation on April 20, 2017, but the first thing I asked him about was… Read More »

Tagged With: American foreign policy, Dos Erres, Efrain Rios Montt, exhumation, Fabio Pinzon, forensic anthropology, Frank Marshall, Fredy Peccerelli, genocide, Guatemala, Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, immigration, Refugees, Ronald Reagan, Sara Romero, Truth Commission

SOMETIMES IN APRIL

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

In SOMETIMES IN APRIL, Raoul Peck (Lumumba), has taken the specific story of the Rwandan genocide of April 1994 and made manifest the universal implications of the events. There is plenty of culpability to go around and Peck is not shy about pointing fingers, but he is also not shy about pointing up the greater… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Africa, based on a true story, cinema, drama, film, genocide, HBO, Human Rights Watch, Hutu, Idris Elba, movie, narrative, Raoul Peck, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi, world history

Raoul Peck on SOMETIMES IN APRIL

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Raoul Peck on SOMETIMES IN APRIL

Raoul Peck is a softspoken man, but the gentle timbre of his voice does nothing to disguise the passion he feels for SOMETIMES IN APRIL, which he wrote and directed for HBO. This look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994, an event that took a million lives in 100 days, was a topic he was… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Africa, based on a true story, cinema, drama, film, genocide, HBO, Human Rights Watch, Hutu, Idris Elba, movie, narrative, Raoul Peck, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi, world history

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