America Held Hostage

If the history of the Jews in Eastern Europe is a narrative of attacks on Jewish lives and communities, the half century following the Holocaust has been an attack on Jewish memory. As the Nazi army retreated, Soviet liberators began a campaign which turned synagogues into factories, cemeteries into real estate plots and abandoned Jewish sites to the mercy of time, weather, and local vandals. Now meet the keepers and creators of Jewish memory. In present day Ukraine, homegrown monuments are popping up in places that have only known silence and neglect. By fanning these small flames back to life, they are creators and re-claimers of a memory that has nearly been lost.

You now hold in your hands a unique capsule of our country's past as captured by the dynamic Movietone news crews from the early 30's through to the mid 50's. The headlines, our sporting achievements, the tragedies and out nation's often off beat sense of humour as depicted by our somewhat bizarre variety of leisure activities - they're all here. An experienced team of film historians and researchers have spent months sifting through miles of news footage to compile this rare treat that makes superb viewing for every Australian citizen.

Culled from over 500 videos found, the Mexican drug war, political theater, racial archetypes and Spring Break debauchery is turned into a helter-skelter montage of devastating realism to mark the Bicentennial of Mexico.

"79 Minutes: The Breach of the Capitol" takes the viewer from the initial breach of the Capitol Grounds to the breach of the actual Capitol building over an hour later. The film examines the particular perspectives of various individuals and groups present on that day - how certain protesters turned violent while many stayed peaceful, how police leadership failed in preparations and strategy, how police who held a tactical advantage retreated repeatedly, how some police escalated unnecessarily, and ultimately how the defense of the capitol failed and allowed protesters to flow uninhibited into the US Capitol building.

No is an outcry of non-discrimination between color, sex, religion, a cry against fascism and dictatorship.