Just over a decade later, the Assad regime is reeling. He was supposed to be a modern, liberal leader. A doctor who had lived in London, he vowed to fight corruption and embrace globalization in his inaugural address as president. Official description from the publisher’s website:ĭuring the 1970s, Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, turned Syria into one of the world’s most secretive and repressive dictatorships. This documentary recaps four decades of oppression and social unrest that is now exploding into a dangerous, destabilizing war. The situation in Syria is only now becoming a major story in American news media, but the current conditions did not start spontaneously. Syria: The Assads’ Twilight (DVD 10636) tells the story behind the ongoing crisis and Syria and the end of the legitimacy of the Assad presidency. Author mediaservices Posted on DecemCategories Uncategorized Tags documentary, Hot Docs Hot Docs: Syria: The Assads’ Twilight The film tells the gripping personal stories of the individuals, the families and the town that survived the most brutal, most expensive and largest immigration raid in the history of the United States and serves as a cautionary tale of government abuses.
Presents the devastating effects of US Enforcement Immigration policies on communities, families and children. Official description from the film’s website: This documentary reveals the government’s perceived overreach of power and the aftershocks felt throughout the disintegrating Postville community. The city of Postville, Iowa heavily relied on undocumented workers for its well-being when the federal government arrested those workers, the town’s economy dropped into a freefall. Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we’ve recently added to our collection.ĪbUSed: The Postville Raid (DVD 10615) examines what happens to immigrants after a wave of mass deportations.