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Documentary that offers a great overview of the history of Bolivia, their misery, the popular indomitable spirit and repressions that occur without pause.
The story of the friendship between a truck driver and a shoeshine boy who occasionally becomes his assistant when they travel together from the agro-industrial area of Santa Cruz to the high Andean basin of La Paz in a truck named "Mi Socio".
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
The film portrays the 1952 revolution and 1980 coup in Bolivia through the lives of two brothers, Juan José and Martín. Juan José, the legitimate son of Luís, is transformed, by his experiences as a youth in 1950s, to become a boss of one of the groups of paramilitaries during the 1980 coup. Martín, the illegitimate son of Luís and an indigenous peasant, becomes a trade union leader during that period.
A documentary about the malaria control program in Ecuador.
Documentary about the construction of the Cochbamba-Santa Cruz road and the sense of hope for economic diversification in the country. The film's narration overemphasizes the help given the United States in road construction.
A documentary about the Second Festival of Music and Native Dances in La Paz.
A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.
Directed by eventual Bolivian president, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, who ran the production company of this film, Telecina Ltd. from 1953-1957. Follows a young boy from a Bolivian mountain village who learns to read and supports his community. "Filmed in Warisata, Bolivia, produced by Telecine Limitada, narrated by Oscar Soria, and produced and directed by Gonzalo de Lozada" (US National Archives). Also produced and distributed by the US Information Service.
