Haiti: A Painted History (1997) 
Another successful film showing in the high school classroom
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So I rented this film from Scarecrow Video to show to some a Special Ed reading class I was subbing for.� (Turns out that it is not listed on the IMDB, so i submitted an update.)� It was part of a unit they spent reading a book called A Taste of Salt, about some poeple in Haiti during the rise of Aristide.� The case said it was on Haitian history going from 500 years ago to the present.� I thought it would give them some good visuals of what everything the country/culture looked like.
� The film did have a lot of cool background and some neat pictures.� It spent an inordinate amount of time on modern artists who painted pictures depicting scenes from Haiti’s history.� Then it hit me A Painted History!� It goes without saying that 90 percent of the students slept through the film.
