Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us

Overview

Examines the aims and accomplishments of the New Jewel Movement and the reasons for the Fall 1983 U.S. military invasion. The film puts these events in perspective by tracing Grenada's early history, from the annihilation of the indigenous Carib Indians by the European colonial powers which vied for control of the region and then imported African slaves to grow cash crops for European export, to the evolution of modern Grenadian society, including the oppressive regime of Eric Gairy (1974-79).

Directed by John Douglas, Samori Marksman, Carmen Ashhurst

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Vinie Burroughs

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Maurice Bishop

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Caldwell Taylor

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Dessima Williams

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Valerie Cornwall

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Candia Alleyne

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Bernard Coard

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Phyllis Coard

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Fitzroy Bain

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George Nurse

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Brian Beggs

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Claudette Pitt

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Dorcas Braveboy

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