The Battle of Chile: Part 3

Newly restored after 50 years! Widely considered one of the greatest documentaries of all time, Patricio Guzman’s epic, three-part THE BATTLE OF CHILE is the chronicle of the country’s peaceful socialist revolution and of the violent counter-revolution against it. Part 3: The Power of the People deals with the creation by ordinary workers and peasants of thousands of local groups of "popular power" to distribute food, occupy, guard and run factories and farms, oppose black market profiteering, and link together neighborhood social service organizations. First these local groups of "popular power" acted as a defense against strikes and lock-outs by factory owners, tradesmen and professional bodies opposed to the Allende government, then increasingly as Soviet-type bodies demanding more resolute action by the government against the right.