In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness.
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Alanis Obomsawin as Narrator (voice)
Jack Burning as Chief Joseph (voice)
Herbie Barnes as Chief Augnita
Robert Bourassa as Self
Ellen Gabriel as Self
Alanis Obomsawin Director
Wolf Koenig Producer
Tony Reed Sound Editor
Yurij Luhovy Editor
Don Ayer Sound Editor
Canada 09 September 1993
United Kingdom 12 July 1993
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance:
Screening at MoMA as part of the Film exhibition Alanis Obomsawin: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of ...
On a July day in 1990 a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka Quebec into the international spotlight. Director Alanis ...
Directed by Alanis Obomsawin Produced by The National Film Board of Canada This feature-length documentary is set in the thick of the armed confrontation ...
1993 • CANADA • 120' OCT 23 / PM CINEMATECA – M. F. RIBEIRO CINEMA more info: ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1993:
27 August 1993
Journalist Anna is trying to make a documentary about an opposition activist she met years ago.
29 September 1993
Based on the real life story of Myrna Diones, a 14 year-old survivor of a brutal massacre of her, her sister and their two cousins in the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon by the very people who should've protect them, policemen .
20 May 1993
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodied Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now (which starred Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen).
09 September 1993
An interesting attempt at a postmodern crazy comedy with elements of parody. The plot turns on the search for the recipe of a liqueur made by the film’s financial backer.
01 January 1993
Rhyme 'Em To Death reconstructs the trial from Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame from a new perspective, that of a minor character - the goat.
31 August 1993
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09 November 1993
When a woman dies in a supposed accident, her parents suspect their son-in-law of foul play. When the police begin to agree, the murder suspect vanishes.
11 June 1993
Chellappa (Jayaram), an orphan, runs a photo studio in deficit with his friends (Chinni Jayanth and Vadivelu).
29 December 1993
A widowed woman is being stalked by her husband's murderers.
01 January 1993
Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers.
05 May 1993
A woman with ‘no name and no country’ in search of a sense of belonging. Asked to write a script about her own experience, she constructs an ‘autobiography’ which is partly fiction.
15 December 1993
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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