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✎ Suggest a correctionA disturbing account of Klu Klux Klan and Nazi activities in the USA. The film shows a KKK initiation ceremony, marches, interviews with the Klansmen who killed five anti-racist demonstrators in North Carolina (and were subsequently acquitted despite being identified), Nazis pledging allegiance to Hitler and parading and drilling openly in the streets. The focus of the film is the so-called Greensboro Massacre.
Credits
Dunaev, V. IU (Vladimir IUrʹevich) (scriptwriter); Oleg Uralov (director)
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Lit͡senziia na nasilie | Лицензия на насилие. English.
Original source: AMDigital Reference: N-507098 | Film format: 16mm Comb col pos | Sponsor: Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries | Contributors: Dunayev, Vladimir. | Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow. | Reproduction of: Лицензия на насилие USSR, c. 1984. 16mm Comb col pos. | The British Film Institute
Original production: Moscow : Central Documentary Film Studios, [approximately 1984]
Physical description: 1 online resource (1 video file (20 minutes, 42 seconds)) : sound, colour.
Subjects: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) | Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979 | Neo-Nazism -- United States
Original source: AMDigital Reference: N-507098 | Film format: 16mm Comb col pos | Sponsor: Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries | Contributors: Dunayev, Vladimir. | Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow. | Reproduction of: Лицензия на насилие USSR, c. 1984. 16mm Comb col pos. | The British Film Institute
Original production: Moscow : Central Documentary Film Studios, [approximately 1984]
Physical description: 1 online resource (1 video file (20 minutes, 42 seconds)) : sound, colour.
Subjects: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) | Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979 | Neo-Nazism -- United States
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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