15 minutes / color
Copyright Date: 1986
Sale: $130

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Subject areas:
Chile, Human Rights, Latin American Studies, Women's Studies

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The Battle of Chile (Part 1 & 2): The epic chronicle of Chile's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it in 1973. Judy Stone of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "a landmark in the presentation of living history on film."