The Last Colony (2015)

Director: Juan Agustín Márquez

Run time: 92 min.

Call Number: F1971 .L37 2015  
 

"For 114 years the people of Puerto Rico have maintained a polarizing debate on the status issue that has been front and center of the island's political discourse. Puerto Ricans constantly ponder the three options of Statehood, Independence and Commonwealth. Juan Agustin Marquez brings the status debate to the people of the United States, Congress and the President, asking this century old question: Will there be a change in status in America's Last Colony?"

—Publisher's description

Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense (2014)

Director: Göran Hugo Olsson
Run Time: 85 min.
Call Number: DT33 .F313 2004

". . . reflects the shifting focus of Swedish activist filmmakers during the mid-’70s, who grabbed their cameras and traveled to the front lines of African independence, observing firsthand the fall of apartheid and liberation of a people who’d been exploited by white Europeans for decades. . . . In searching for a mechanism to unify this incredible footage, which has gone largely unseen by the general public ever since, Olsson seized upon Fanon’s 1961 tract [The Wretched of the Earth], a controversial anarchist cookbook which analyzed the psychology of occupation and identified violent upheaval as the only means to overthrow colonialism — a system Fanon referred to as 'violence in its
natural state.'"
—Peter Debruge, Variety