A little known passage of British history - the fate of the black men who volunteered for the King's Men in the American War of Independence. At least the Empire didn't abandon them to the slaver George Washington and his thugs, instead dumping them on the desolate Novia Scotia coastline. But where there's life there's hope and enter the radical Thomas Clarkson's brother, a young naval officer named John, who, energised by their living conditions, collected the remnants and shipped them to Freet
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THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY (2007)
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Pilger's documentary focuses on Latin America and US policies to keep the people in these countries subjugated, impoverished and rid of that scourge of imperialism - democracy. We start in Venezuela with some interesting chats with the democratically elected and refomist President Chavez with references to the US's attempts to violently overthrow him, although Pilger chides him as to why there is still so much poverty while big business seems to be raking in the dosh. We're given brief resumes o
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