01 January 1981 Factual 29 mins
Afro-Antillean workers hired for the construction of the Panama Canal are brought from their homes to work in conditions that were not those promised. They, the descendants of African slaves and domesticated from England, manage to raise their voices against American injustices.
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César Sanjur as Narrator
Reinaldo Holder Director
Panama 01 January 1981
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28 March 1981
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fresh insights to this beloved score.
06 May 1981
An underpaid and underappreciated man goes missing from his office one day. What happens to the company?
16 October 1981
Due to her parents' divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.
18 November 1981
A group of friends on vacation in Deauville take on the challenge of hitting on as many girls as possible, collecting the underwear of each of their "victims" as trophies.
03 December 1981
Elder brother, Big Cat is a flirt and younger brother, Small Cat is mean and cold. They were sent to prison for commiting crimes.
22 May 1981
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
19 November 1981
In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man.
31 December 1981
The found-footage collage was overlaid with a psychologist expounding on sex offenders, analog video effects, edgy graphics, and a new wave score by the band Human Sexual Response.
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