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FRONTLINE; Murder in the Amazon
Part of Frontline.
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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Murder in the Amazon
- Program Number
709
- Series Description
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world. Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as PBS's flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.
- Program Description
Chico Mendes was an environmentalist and a leader of the seringueiros, Brazilian rubber tappers, who struggle to defend their forests from destruction by cattle ranchers and developers. Mendes's murder in December 1988 focused international attention on the ecological pillage of millions of acres of Amazonian rain forest. (Derived from the series DECADE OF DESTRUCTION)
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Murder in the Amazon,” GBH Archives, accessed November 21, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C8A447F9E7EF4EB2939DBB437D26E849.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Murder in the Amazon.” GBH Archives. Web. November 21, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C8A447F9E7EF4EB2939DBB437D26E849>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Murder in the Amazon. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C8A447F9E7EF4EB2939DBB437D26E849