THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
74 minutes
Director: Kim Bartley and Donnacha O Briain
Country: Venezuela
Year: 2003
Language: English and Spanish (English Subtitles)
Overview:
This daring documentary about political muscle and media manipulation captures the short-lived
overthrow of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Two independent filmmakers were present in
April 2002, when the president’s powerful political enemies forcibly removed him from office,
and when 48 hours later he remarkably returned to power amid cheering aides.
Previewing Activities
 Who is Hugo Chavez?
 What sort of an impact does a man like Chavez have on a country?
 How do you imagine Chavez would handle a revolution?
Post-viewing Activities
 When Hugo Chavez was first shown with the Venezuelan people, how did they react to
him?
 How did the poor feel about Chavez and his politics?
 Why do you think the revolutionaries took power from Chavez?
 How was Chavez able to return to power before he was taken out of Venezuela?
Class Projects
 Find the most recent news article you can about Hugo Chavez and analyze the political
bias presented in the article.
How to Borrow this Video:
The videos owned by the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean
Studies are housed in the Outreach Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. They are lent free of charge. For information on films and reservations, please visit
http://isa.unc.edu/film/films_main.asp.
Suggested Readings:

Kozloff, Nikolas. Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006.