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51 minutes
Subtitle: THE DECADE OF DESTRUCTION series
4 video programs on 5 cassettes 55 minutes per cassette Grades 9-
Adult
Produced by Adrian Cowell
In Brazil during the past two decades, nearly 24 million small
farmers have lost their land, while almost half of Brazil's arable
land is now owned by 1% of the population. Millions of poor
farmers have migrated to the Amazon as homesteaders, and many have
moved onto massive ranches carved out of the rainforest by large
companies. These absentee landlords often leave the land idle and
hold it purely for speculation. Violence erupts when the squatters
begin to work the land and the landowners hire gunmen to frighten
them off.
Awards: American Film & Video Festival
- "A very well-made documentary with a strong point of view... It
argues implicitly that the problem of how to save the rainforest
is an economic and political as well as an ecological one." ****
Video Rating Guide for Libraries
Subject Areas: ECONOMICS, LATIN AMERICA, DEVELOPMENT,SOCIAL
STUDIES, AMAZON RAIN FOREST, BRAZIL
ISBN: 1-56029-030-7
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