Bartley & O’Briain went to Venezuela expecting to make an intimate profile of Hugo Chavez, the maverick president who’s become a new icon of the left. They got more than they bargained for. Chavez’s attempts to redistribute his country’s vast oil wealth inevitably made him many enemies whose smear campaigns, orchestrated through private TV channels,…
On 15 September 1963, a bomb was tossed into the basement of an Alabama church which had become a focal point for the US civil rights movement, killing four little girls. This is silver-screen legend Spike Lee’s meticulously researched and movingly executed homage to the murdered children and surviving family and friends. Interviews with civil…
The tale of Sara Baartman should be known to every South African. For it is a story that distils the audacity of European racism and is an accessible and moving account of her life. Sara was a Khoi-Khoi woman, born in the Cape in 1790, who at the age of 20 was taken to London…
While Che is idolised, the reality of his activism is often lost behind the icon. Dindo’s film gives substance to the legend. In 1961 Guevara became a minister in Castro’s government. In this capacity, in Algiers in 1965, he delivered a powerful speech indicting socialist powers for exploiting the Third World and, in effect, colluding…