Chile : defeat of a dictator /
"General Augusto Pinochet seized power in a 1973 military coup. He banned political parties, closed newspapers, and spread fear throughout the country; political assassinations, disappearances, torture, and imprisonment became common. In 1983, an economic crisis pushed many Chileans to dare opp...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned. |
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Princeton, NJ :
Films for the Humanities and Sciences,
[2000]
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| Summary: | "General Augusto Pinochet seized power in a 1973 military coup. He banned political parties, closed newspapers, and spread fear throughout the country; political assassinations, disappearances, torture, and imprisonment became common. In 1983, an economic crisis pushed many Chileans to dare oppose the dictatorship for the first time. Copper miners called for a nonviolent national protest day against Pinochet, unleashing pent-up opposition in a wave of monthly protests. Mainstream opposition parties re-emerged after ten years underground, and supported by the Church, staged frequent nonviolent demonstrations. By 1987, the democratic opposition realized that the constitution Pinochet wrote in 1980 called for a plebiscite--a chance for people to vote yes or no on another eight years of military rule. Isolated and overconfident, Pinochet had always assumed he would win if people were given a choice. But after years of organizing, the opposition was prepared, and ran a bold, future-oriented 'NO' campaign. On October 5, 1988, Pinochet was voted out"--Container. |
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| Item Description: | Major funding provided by Susan and Perry Lerner. Additional funding by The Albert Einstein Institution, Elizabeth and John H. van Merkensteijn, III, Abby and Alan Levy, and The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. "A force more powerful is a greatly-expanded version of the producing team's award-winning, critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film of the same title, which was released to select theaters in New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles in 1999"--PBS Web site. Series originally broadcast on PBS in 2000. Companion book: A force more powerful : a century of nonviolent conflict / by Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 DVD-video (34 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; stereo. |
| Production Credits: | Camera, Peter Pearce ; editor, David Ewing ; original music composed and conducted by John Keltonic. |