Grenada: Nobody's Backyard (2021)

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.6 • 16.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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A Marxist revolution, a Cold War proxy battle, and a dream of a Black utopia. In 1983, Ronald Reagan ordered the U.S. military to invade the island of Grenada. Forty years later, many Americans don't remember why — or that it even happened. This week, Martine Powers, from Post Reports, brings us a story of revolution, invasion, and the aftermath of unresolved history.

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0:20.8	this year marks the 40th anniversary of the US invasion of Grenada.
0:26.0	Today we're bringing you that story in collaboration with the Washington Post's Martine Powers.
0:31.0	It's a story about revolution, world powers, and the aftermath of unresolved history.
0:37.6	This episode first aired in 2021. United States power troopers have invaded Grenada with helicopter gunships.
1:10.0	Our armed forces are engaging them in fairs.
1:13.0	This is Alpha Company, second-ranger, the guy in the war bus.
1:16.0	They were the first company on the ground last night.
1:19.0	All doctors, there's a medic's report to the hospital immediately.
1:23.6	The Grenadian people are asked to block all roads and obstruct the enemy's progress.
1:29.1	Smoke blackened skies mark the locations where the strongest resistance have been coming from.
1:34.0	Do you tell you what you have been through since it started on Tuesday?
1:38.0	Yeah.
1:40.0	Now. Oh. Tonight we report from the island in the sun and in the news.
1:47.0	Tonight we report from the island in the sun and in the news.
1:52.0	For the first time the Americans who allowed only their own news teams in
1:56.0	showed how their heavy artillery was trying to pound the opposition forces into an early submission.
2:01.0	The president intends to keep the troops there
2:03.3	about five to seven days.
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