While nominally covering seemingly divergent topics—the failed 1984 British coalminers strike and the rock-and-roll scene in pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia—two documentaries end up having much more in common than meets the eyes. “Still the Enemy Within”, a DVD available from Bullfrog Films (reduced rates for activist groups), is a kind of oral history with miners and their supporters recounting what it was like to go up against a Prime Minister who was determined in advance to break their union, arguably the most powerful in Britain. Also an oral history, “Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten” allows some of Cambodia’s leading rock musicians of the 1960s and 70s—now about the same age as the coalminers—to recreate a world that like pre-Thatcher Britain was crushed underfoot but in the name of Communism rather than TINA. (The film becomes available on August 4 through iTunes, Google Play, Amazon.com, Vudu, Cinema Now and Vimeo on Demand.) Taken together, both films help us understand the bleak conditions that we face today.
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