The Terror and the Time (1979)

"The Terror and the Time" is a documentary about colonialism in British Guiana during the 1950s. The film's narration is a series of poems from Martin Carter's Poems of Resistance, written and published in 1953, the year of the main events portrayed. Set against the back drop of the Cold War and international events of that same year in places such as Iran, Guatemala, Kenya and the United States, 'The Terror and the Time' shows the election of the first "internal self-government" in the colony under the leadership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan and the People's Progressive Party (PPP).