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The Terror and the Time

Newly Added • 1h 13m

Directed by Rupert Roonaraine • 1978 • Guyana

The Terror is British colonialism and Cold War imperialism. The Time is 1953. THE TERROR AND THE TIME tells the story of the Guyanese people’s fight for independence and self-determination, investigating the historical background of neocolonial conditions. The film also documents insidious forms of everyday economic and cultural repression: the impoverishment of working people, feudal labor conditions, and the government’s stranglehold on the press. Centered on nine of Martin Carter’s “Poems of Resistance,” it positions poetry as a vigorous part of the fight for independence.

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