The World Is Watching

Canada, 1987

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Cameraman Don Holmberg and award-winning independent Canadian director, Peter Raymont, covered peace talks in Nicaragua, November 1987. What they saw, and what was reported on television networks in the US and Europe was quite different.

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Credits

director

Peter Raymont

co-producer

Harold Crooks

Jim Monro

Peter Raymont

production company

Channel 4 Television Corporation

Great Britain, Ikon TV, Holland, Sveriges TV, Sweden

Investigative Productions Inc

TV Ontario

Duration

00:58:00:00

Production places

Canada

Production dates

1987

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324703

Language

English

Audience classification

Exempt

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Broadcast journalism

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Mass media

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → News agencies

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television broadcasting of news

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Nicaragua

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Canada

Places → Nicaragua

Short films

Short films → Short films - Canada

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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