The film describes the struggle of the Chagossians, a population of 2000 or so people who were forcibly removed from their homeland by the British government in the late sixties and early seventies. Why do we accept specious reasons for the unacceptable? On the main island, Diego Garcia, is a vast United States military base. The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland. Stealing A Nation John Pilger's award winning documentary is being screened for free across London during 2013 and 2014. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Theater box office or somewhere else
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'.
The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. This 10-digit number is your confirmation number. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket.
All rights reserved. Veteran filmmaker John Pilger takes us through a history of threats to Britain's National Health Service ,from its 1948 founding by Labor through a privatizing push by Margaret Thatcher's bureaucrats, to challenges by new Conservatives.
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In the film, John Pilger concludes: "Why do we continue to allow our governments to treat people in small countries as either useful or expendable? The film describes the struggle of the Chagossians, a population of 2000 or so people who were forcibly removed from their homeland by the British government in the late sixties and early seventies. Why do we accept specious reasons for the unacceptable? On the main island, Diego Garcia, is a vast United States military base. The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland. Stealing A Nation John Pilger's award winning documentary is being screened for free across London during 2013 and 2014. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Theater box office or somewhere else
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'.
Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Use the HTML below. A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement. Director John Pilger's documentary recalls the deportation of British citizens from the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean by British officials in the 1960s and 70s after the government agreed to give the islands to the United States, which the Americans used for military bases. Everything We Know About Stealing a Nation (John Pilger, 2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. This well conceived and carefully researched documentary outlines the appalling case of the Chagos Islanders, who, it shows, between 1969 and 1971, were forcibly deported en masse from their homeland through the collusion of the British and American governments. 23 of 27 people found this review helpful. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments." To keep up-to-date about forthcoming screenings you can