"The shocking film Australian networks won't touch!"31 July 2004Factual56 mins
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean. The aim was to give the principal island of this Crown Colony, Diego Garcia, to the Americans who wanted it as a major military base. Indeed, from Diego Garcia US planes have since bombed Afghanistan and Iraq. The story is told by islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and in the words of the British officials who left a 'paper trail' of what the International Criminal Court now describes as 'a crime against humanity'
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How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.
The movie, which seemed likely to be a video study by a local researcher on comfort women in the military camp town, is becoming an increasingly fictional world, including visits by the dead, resulting in historical, fantastic and allegorical results.
A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized economy undertaken in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende.
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Stealing a Nation - How the UK/US Stole the Diego Garcia Island
Stealing a Nation is a 2004 Granada Television documentary written and directed by John Pilger produced and directed by Christopher Martin and with ...
Stealing A Nation (Bullfrog Films clip)
Directed by John Pilger and Christopher Martin Produced by Granada Television Award-winning reporter John Pilger exposes how the British Government ...
Stealing a Nation - A Report by John Pilger [ Part 1 ]
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