50th Anniversary of the US-Backed Coup in Chile: Now Streaming on Docuseek
Essential documentary films for higher education
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50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile |
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September 11, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile, which changed the course of world history. Docuseek is proud to stream master documentarian Patricio Guzmán’s filmography from distributor Icarus Films. Recently honored with Chile’s National Arts Prize in the Audiovisual and Representation category and called “arguably the most important, and unarguably the most resolute, political filmmaker of all time”, Guzmán's epic body of work is the unprecedented record of one country's journey.
The Battle of Chile, in theatrical release starting September 8, 2023, is Guzmán’s sprawling three-part documentary, which provides a comprehensive on-the-ground look at the events leading up to the military overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. The film chronicles the political developments and the escalating conflicts in Chilean society that led up to and ended with General Augusto Pinochet and his army’s coup, overthrowing the democratically elected president Salvador Allende.
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“The film weaves a startlingly coherent, by-the-numbers portrait of how a society sharply divided by wealth shatters itself and becomes a totalitarian state. If you ever want to chart the logistics of how it can happen, Guzmán gives you the graph paper and the data points.”
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Considered one of the greatest documentaries ever made by Time Out and Sight and Sound, The Battle of Chile is also hailed as “one of the 10 best political documentary films in the world” by Cineaste and was recently listed in The New Republic’s list of “the 100 most significant political films of all time.”
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Guzmán's films below, including the newly available Chile, Obstinate Memory, are now streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.
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The Films of Patricio Guzmán |
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The epic chronicle of Chile's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it in 1973. Judy Stone of the San Francisco Chronicle called it a 'a landmark in the presentation of living history on film.' (Icarus Films)
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Patricio Guzmán's landmark film The Battle of Chile (1976) documented the "Popular Unity" period of Salvador Allende's government, the tumultuous events leading up to the 1973 coup, and Allende's death. Guzmán has returned to show The Battle of Chile in his homeland for the first time. (Icarus Films)
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Patricio Guzmán's latest film completes a trilogy on his native Chile, and the lasting impact of Pinochet's coup d'état. (Icarus Films)
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An explosive social revolution brought 1.5 million Chileans to their feet. It was the event Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for. (Icarus Films)
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Patricio Guzmán travels to Chile's Atacama Desert where astronomers examine distant galaxies, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations, and women dig for the remains of disappeared relatives. (Icarus Films)
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The story of the landmark legal case against General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, before and after his arrest in London in 1998. (Icarus Films)
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Patricio Guzmán tells Allende's story, from his youth in Valparaiso and his early career, to his presidency of Chile and death during the coup of September 11, 1973. (Icarus Films)
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Poetically tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality - and a different world - through the cinema. (Icarus Films)
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Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile. (Icarus Films)
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Director Marcia Tambutti Allende seeks to understand the man behind the legend that was her grandfather, Salvador Allende. (Icarus Films)
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After the coup in 1973, Chile was turned into a laboratory for the world's most radical neo-liberal experiment. (Icarus Films)
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Documents the workings of Chile's Forensic Identification Unit in its quest to reclaim the identities of those 'disappeared' and killed during the pinochet dictatorship. (Icarus Films)
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Writer, artist and pioneer of the queer movement in Latin America Pedro Lemebel shook up Chilean society during Pinochet's dictatorship. (Icarus Films)
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Filmmaker Ignacio Agüero begins filming the objects around his home and the people who drop by, and finds himself drawn into the layers of Chilean history and the complexities of documentary filmmaking. (Icarus Films)
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Zona Franca is a large outdated shopping district at the heart of the Chilean province located near the Strait of Magellan. This area shows the scars of the upheaval which transformed the last wild place of the original America into a window display of today's commercial society. (AndanaFilms)
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