António de Spínola
Biography: António Sebastião Ribeiro de Spínola was a Portuguese military officer, author and conservative politician who played an important role in Portugal's transition to democracy following the Carnation Revolution.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 11, 1910
Deathday: August 13, 1996
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Good Portuguese People
1981-11-18
Good Portuguese People
Overview: Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal European style democracy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-11-18
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Deus Pátria Autoridade
1976-02-21
Deus Pátria Autoridade
Overview: The history of Portugal since the Republican revolution of 1910 to the revolutionary period following the military coup of April 24, 1974, recounted with a marxist perspective, using historic sound and film documents. The title refers to a trilogy of values proclaimed by Salazar, prime minister of Portugal in 1936.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-02-21
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Owners of Portugal
2012-04-25
Owners of Portugal
Overview: Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-25
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Concerning Violence
2014-01-17
Concerning Violence
Overview: Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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Portugal 74-75 - O retrato do 25 de Abril
1994-04-24
Portugal 74-75 - O retrato do 25 de Abril
Overview: Documentary in which the main events that marked the country and Portuguese society in the years 1974 and 1975 are chronologically addressed. The decay of the Marcelist regime, the Revolution of April 25, the troubled period of the Ongoing Revolutionary Process (PREC) , the failure of the Coup of 25 November. A film produced based on archival footage, interspersed with testimonies from some of the actors in the events of that time, to mark the 20 years of the Carnation Revolution.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-04-24
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