December 2011
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WatchGeneral Idi Amin Dada: an Auto-Portrait by Barbet Schroeder
A bizzarre and terrifying portrait of the dictator. Schroeder had intimate and unprecedented access to the man who came to be titled ‘His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in...
Greece: The Seven Black Years →
This Adam Curtis blog-post looks at the Greek propensity for civil disobedience and their recent calls for direct democracy. Curtis finds the nascence of today’s social unrest in the collapse of the Greek Military Junta in 1974. He posts a BBC documentary called Greece: The Seven Black Years in its entirety. The film looks at the last days of the regime, the terrible consequences of...