Documentaries Tagged “haiti”
Haitian Revolution: Toussaint Louverture
Haitian Revolution: Toussaint Louverture
The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world’s first Black republic – traumatizing Southern planters, inspiring U.S. Blacks, and invigorating anti-slavery activist world-wide.
At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was ad...
A Pearl Under the Rubble
A Pearl Under the Rubble
On the 12th January 2010 a major earthquake struck southern Haiti violently and caused massive loss of life, injury and destruction of buildings, power lines and communication systems inflicting what Haiti’s ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
This documentary shows the s...