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Santiago Files (2011)

Santiago Files poster
Directed by
Cetywa Powell
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the fall of Salvador Allende's government in Chile. It looks at the roles of the CIA, Chile's military, and Allende himself in the event.

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What happens

Santiago Files, directed by Cetywa Powell, is a feature-length documentary film about Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the players in his downfall: the CIA, Chile's military, and Allende himself. Malcolm McDowell narrates the film, which premiered in September 2011. The documentary is in the permanent collection of the American Documentary Film Festival's archives (AmDocs), housed at the Rancho Mirage Library in Palm Springs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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