Capital of Earth: The Maroons of Moore Town (1979)

Directed and produced by Jefferson Miller

This historical documentary, filmed in Jamaica, focuses on the Maroons, direct descendants of escaped African slaves who formed rebel communities in the Blue Mountains. After a hundred years of guerrilla warfare against the British, they won freedom and political autonomy. Illustrates aspects of their unique and original West African heritage that are now at odds with the pressures of model social and economic change
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