The Battle of Chile (NR)

synopsis

Hailed as "one of the 10 best political documentary films in the world" (Cineaste) and recently listed in The New Republic's list of "the 100 most significant political films of all time," The Battle of Chile chronicles the political developments and the escalating conflicts in Chilean society that led up to and ended with General Augusto Pinochet and his army's coup, overthrowing the democratically elected president Salvador Allende.