Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us

Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us

54 mins | Documentary | Nov. 1, 1983

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).

Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us

54 mins | Documentary | Nov. 1, 1983

Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us
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).
Producers Caribbean Research Institute
Original title Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us
Directors Samori Marksman, Carmen Ashhurst, John Douglas
Writers

Cast

Vinie Burroughs

as Narrator

Maurice Bishop

as self

Caldwell Taylor

as self

Candia Alleyne

as self

Bernard Coard

as self

Phyllis Coard

as self

Fitzroy Bain

as self

George Nurse

as self

Brian Beggs

as self

Claudette Pitt

as self

Dorcas Braveboy

as self