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Zapatista

5.6 56 mins Documentary   History   1999
Big Noise  
Director(s): Benjamin Eichert Rick Rowley Ståle Sandberg

Release Date: 01 Fri, Jan 1999

"Zapatista" is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against a first world military. It is the story of a global movement that has fought 175,000 federal troops to a stand still and transformed Mexican and international political culture forever.

Casts of Zapatista

Edward James Olmos

as Narrator (voice)

Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente

as Self - EZLN Spokesperson (as Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos)

Javier Elorriaga

as Self - National Coordinator, FZLN

Zack De La Rocha

as Self - Lead Singer, Rage Against the Machine

Marina Patrícia Jimenez

as Self - Center for Human Rights, Chiapas

Noam Chomsky

as Self - Professor, MIT

Vivian Stromberg

as Self - Director, MADRE

Karen Parker

as Self - Attorney, Humanitarian Law Project

Daryl Hannah

as Narrator (voice)

Medea Benjamin

as Self - Co-Director, Global Exchange

Blase Bonpane

as Self - Director, Office of the Americas

Mumia Abu-Jamal

as Self (voice)

Geronimo Pratt

as Self (voice)

Jacqueline Soohen

as Narrator (voice)

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