Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Panama deception [videorecording] / Empowerment Project, Inc. ; in association with Channel Four, London ; directed by Barbara Trent ; producers, Barbara Trent, Joanne Doroshow, Nico Panigutti, David Kasper.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, N.Y.] : Docurama : Distributed by New Video, [2007]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Offers a view of the 1989 invasion of Panama that was not given by the American media. Presents evidence of mass burials of civilian casualties and internment of homeless civilians which was concealed by the U.S. military or went unreported. Also claims to reveal President Bush's "secret agenda" behind the invasion: to keep U.S. military bases in Panama after the year 2000 in defiance of canal treaties.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Panama -- History -- American Invasion, 1989.

Panama -- Foreign relations -- United States.

United States -- Foreign relations -- Panama.

Other Author:

Trent, Barbara.

Kasper, David.

Doroshow, Joanne.

Panigutti, Nico.

Montgomery, Elizabeth, 1933-1995.

Empowerment Project.

Channel Four (Great Britain)

Docurama (Firm)

New Video Group.

Notes:

Originally released as a documentary film in 1992.

Special features: Follow-up interviews with filmmakers Barbara Trent & David Kasper; The politics of demonization and fear, with Phyllis Bennis; The future of Panama & Latin America; Panama to Iraq: the trajectory of U.S. militarism; Panama after the invasion, with Humberto Brown; trailers from goodfilms.org; resource guide; filmmaker biographies.

Camera, Michael Dobo, Manuel Becker ; music, Sting ... [et al.] ; writer and editor, David Kasper ; camera, Michael Dobo, Manuel Becker ; narrator, Elizabeth Montgomery.

Narrator, Elizabeth Montgomery.

DVD; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.

Academy awards, 1993: Best documentary feature.

ISBN:

0767094425

9780767094429

Publisher Number:

NVG-9871

Other Number:

156855190

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

284726

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 972.87053 Panama d

Medium:

[videorecording]