John Douglas

A many-faceted portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It cuts back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters, and across a vast landscape, to explore the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left who faced both personal and hhistorical transitions in the period following the Vietnam War. (imdb)

The story of capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it.

Shot in Vietnam in the summer of 1969, this documentary creates a vivid portrait of the countryside and ways of life during the war. (imdb)

The demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968: resistance to conscription, the increase of coffeeshops for G.I.'s, and the development of alternative media, like the underground Rat. Preliminary meetings, rap sessions, but also the confrontations with police in the streets of Chicago. Besides, attention is paid to the problems the movement had to have their message conveyed by the conventional media. (idfa.nl)

Examines the aims and accomplishments of the New Jewel Movement and the reasons for the Fall 1983 U.S. military invasion. The film puts these events in perspective by tracing Grenada's early history, from the annihilation of the indigenous Carib Indians by the European colonial powers which vied for control of the region and then imported African slaves to grow cash crops for European export, to the evolution of modern Grenadian society, including the oppresive regime of Eric Gairy (1974-79).