Jeffrey Lewis - The Story of Chile (a low-budget documentary)

The Story of Chile is a story that's not told very often in American films or songs or TV programs-I certainly grew up knowing NONE of this, it was never in school or on TV or mentioned anywhere that I ever encountered. It's a relevant story for any nation, at any time-not least of which is the USA, right now in 2020.
In the preparation for making this little "low-budget film" about Chile, I learned a huge amount from all the books and films and articles I absorbed during the past year...
Here is a partial (and incorrectly-formatted!) bibliography of the books and films and articles that I read or watched when I was researching this project:
"Augusto Pinochet: The Life and Legacy of Chile's Controversial Dictator" - biography by Charles River Editors
"Heading South, Looking North" - memoir by Ariel Dorfman
"A History of Latin America" - book by George Pendle
"The House of the Spirits" - 1982 novel by Isabel Allende
"Missing" - excellent 1982 film; basically the only mainstream Hollywood film I'm aware of about Chile...? Well, there's also:
"Death and the Maiden" - 1994 film by Roman Polanski based on the 1990 play by Ariel Dorfman
"Colonia" (AKA "The Colony" in the UK release) - A mostly terrible 2015 mainstream big-budget film (starring Emma Watson), which takes place in Chile in 1973.
“The Planning Machine: Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation” - article by Evgeny Morozov, New Yorker, October 6, 2014
"Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973" - book by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
"The Battle of Chile" - 3-part documentary film series by Patricio Guzmán
"Chile, the Obstinate Memory" - documentary by Patricio Guzmán
“Salvador Allende” - 2004 documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán
"Victor Jara: The Man Who Died Singing the Truth" - 1978 documentary film by the Poiesis Theatre Project
"How to Read Donald Duck" - by Ariel Dorfman & Armand Mattelart
“Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Augusto Pinochet” - by Ariel Dorfman
"The Trials of Henry Kissenger" - 2002 documentary film directed by Eugene Jarecki
"The Trial of Henry Kissenger" - 2001 book by Christopher Hitchens
"The Shock Doctrine" - book by Naomi Klein
“No” - 2012 film directed by Pablo Larraín
“The Newspaper El Mercurio, the CIA and the 1973 Coup: Justice for Agustín Edwards!” - article by Manuel Cabieses Donoso, on ThinkChile.com, June 15, 2014
“Agustín Edwards and his link with the CIA”- article by Pedro Schwarze in La Tercera, APR 25, 2017
“A Marxist threat to cola sales? Pepsi demands a US coup. Goodbye Allende. Hello Pinochet” - article by Gregory Palast, The Observer, Business, The Guardian, Sun 8 Nov 1998
And I've also watched and read many other clips and documentaries on KZbin, plus many, many Wikipedia pages on subjects like the mining industry in Chile, the life of Salvadore Allende, the history of Chile, the arrest of Pinochet in England, plus various online lectures and interviews of Milton Friedman, Peter Kornbluh, and others, I really got pulled into many rabbit holes in my pursuit of various sources of information.
I'm also indebted to a relative who lived in Chile from 1968 to 1973, who provided me with some first-hand input for some of my questions.
If you have any additional suggestions of books or films or lectures etc please let me know!

[@alan_wasp]

It is sad to see tragic and painful episodes like this be buried on purpose to never be remembered. It's important to know our history and acknowledge that terrible things have been done. Thank you Jeffrey for opening my eyes to another dark episode in America, one of many others.

[@jahiaorozcodiaz4626]

Thank you Jeffrey for all your hard work and research. Educational, thought provoking , and inspiringly creative. God bless you ☀️

[@tataritero]

Wena choro manso tema, gracias. Love from chile, puente alto.

[@gf1478]

Thank you and props, forever, to Victor Jara.

[@distortiontildeafness]

Respect for this thank you - the son of an exiled chilean marxist

[@lovemyinknsteel]

well done. Tragic, but well done. TY for sharing this.

[@user-et5qp5ju9s]

Great! Jara forever! From Russia with love.

[@essexphotographer5211]

Marc Riley introduced Me to You and nice to find someone who is continuing the America I discovered in Phil Ochs. #WeShallOvercome

[@ohmeohmy1231]

The writing here is awesome. Really good work. Thanks so much for sharing

[@user-ux7yg2ch6i]

Thankyou.

[@pelviscostello]

Cant wait!

[@hairy7653]

I'm so happy to find you here. Its been too long.

[@jacklewis9242]

Aha, - great to see your list of sources that I hadn't seen before. Amazing!!

[@luciav150]

thanks for sharing!! Much love from sweden

[@nickgrant6480]

Imagine if our history teachers went to this effort. Seriously though jeff is a genius of epic proportions. It would be nice to see someone in the big time give him a fuck load of money to make a motion picture, he deserves mainstream attention.

[@oneidawolf776]

Thank you for the knowledge.

[@ghostofguy]

Cool song. How about some interviews and vlogs on things that inspire you.

[@CaresseTaVie]

Good work!

[@Illstatefishing]

Allende's dream will come true!!

[@Gnosialist]

And sailors that die don’t mean it’s not there

[@adam79634]

Why did you remove half of your albums from Spotify?

[@jacklewis9242]

which albums?

[@adam79634]

The first one I noticed was city and eastern songs. Then also Manhattan. I don't know if there are anymore missing, but I really liked those albums in particular.

[@jeffreylewisband1713]

@@adam79634 I think the issue is that Spotify seems to have changed their system of grouping band-names together as one artist; it seems stupid, obviously, but I think now you would have to search for "Jeffrey & Jack Lewis" and "Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard" and "Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts" etc etc all as different artists? Whereas previously the Spotify system was smart enough to know that all of those albums should appear under one "Jeffrey Lewis" search? I don't know for sure, but according to what various people have told me this is what seems to have changed.

[@adam79634]

@@jeffreylewisband1713 thank you, I will try that

[@distortiontildeafness]

The truckers strike was a bourgeois strike really.. the cía funded their strike fund

[@karlhungus978]

The total lack of rhythm and rhyme in this "song" is astounding...