Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us

Carmen Ashhurst
1983-11-01


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54 min

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).

Cast

Name Character Team
Vinie Burroughs Narrator Unowned
Maurice Bishop self Unowned
Caldwell Taylor self Unowned
Dessima Williams self Unowned
Valerie Cornwall self Unowned
Candia Alleyne self Unowned
Bernard Coard self Unowned
Phyllis Coard self Unowned
Fitzroy Bain self Unowned
George Nurse self Unowned
Brian Beggs self Unowned
Claudette Pitt self Unowned
Dorcas Braveboy self Unowned