Description
In this moving docudrama, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America. Winner of The International Leipzig Documentary Screened at the Whitney Museum – Ten Years of Political Documentaries Toured US colleges and Universities 1976.
MY COUNTRY OCCUPIED was inspired by the work of Santiago Álvarez.
Third World Newsreel’s historical Newsreel collection provides contemporary audiences with a vast archive of political documentary films chronicling the social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
