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Babylon is a 1980 British film co-written by Martin Stellman (writer of Quadrophenia) and Franco Rosso, who also directed it. Produced by Gavrik Losey and the National Film Finance Corporation, the film is regarded as a classic.
It depicts the struggles of a Black British working-class musician and stars Brinsley Forde of the reggae band Aswad. It also starred Karl Howman and Trevor Laird. Music was scored by Dennis Bovell. Included are songs by Aswad, Johnny Clarke, and Jeff Wayne (who wrote the musical version of War Of The Worlds), among others.
Babylon was filmed on the streets of Deptford and Brixton, London. The story centres on sound system culture and themes of police racism, violence against blacks, poverty and disillusion with lack of opportunities.
Brinsley Forde's character is a Deptford garage-hand by day and a disco-dispenser by night. The film follows him as he loses his job as a car mechanic (Mel Smith has a cameo role as his racist boss), gets beaten up by police, is falsely charged, and forced to go on the run, falling out with his girlfriend and finally stabbing a racist neighbour in anger and frustration. The film finishes with a posse of policemen smashing down the doors of a music hall.
Actors: Justin Strydom (actor), Melissa Parry (editor), Presley Chweneyagae (actor), Lindani Nkosi (actor), Khulu Skenjana (actor), Renate Stuurman (actress), Fumani Shilubana (actor), Vickus Strijdom (director), John Herbert (actor), Lukas van der Merwe (actor), Sam Phillips (actor), Masoja Msiza (actor), Paul Buys (producer), Lukas van der Merwe (producer), Bertus van der Walt (producer),
Plot: In South Africa's gold mining region is the subterranean dimension of the Zama Zama, illegal miners that make a living by mining the ore in both operational and abandoned mine shafts. Zama Zama is the personal narrative of two brothers - Malcolm, a successful businessman in the mining industry and his long lost brother Joseph, one of those who work in the underground tunnels - playing off against the tension of the mines' punitive actions against these miners. The plot revolves around moral choices: social standing and success versus loyalty to and love of family.
Genres: Action,A dramatic story set in South London (New Cross!) in 1980 at the beginning of the Thatcher era, involving two competing reggae sound systems, racism, fanaticism, unemployment and false accusations. I loved this film and always wcatched when it was on Channel 4. On top of the wicked soudtrack its got Jacko from Brush stokes! You can import the DVD from: http://www.rarovideo.com/moduli/rarovideo/schedaFilm.asp?itemId=18899 Director: Franco Rosso
Brinsley Forde in Babylon 1980 singing what has now been sampled on Dizzee Rascal's Cant Tek No More from the Babylon film. With thanks to British Screen and the UK Film Council. To join Brinsley Forde's mailing list go to http://www.brinsleyforde.co.uk
Peliculón de 1980. La parte del culto rastafari.
This scene features Victor Romero Evans playing the character of 'Lover' in the 1980's British Black Cult movie 'Babylon', starring Brinsley Forde, Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans, Archie Pool, T-Bone Wilson, Mark Monero, Brian Bovell, David N. Haynes, Karl Howman and Beverley Michaels. The movie includes music by Aswad, Dennis Bovell, Cassandra, Michael Prophet, I Roy and Yabby U.
From Babylon, 1980, directed by Franco Rosso "To the East, Africa, to the West, Jamaica, first Babylon. To the North, England, second Babylon. Babylonian triangle of captivity"
Classic killa sound by UK Top producer Jah Shaka and voiced by jamaican rastafarian reggae singer Johnny Clarke, as featured in the legendary 1980 film of the same name, Babylon.
Babylon [from the Akkadian bāb-ilû, meaning "Gateway of God"] was a city of ancient Mesopotamia, the ruins of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad, in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The earliest source to mention Babylon may be a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (ca. 24th century BC short chronology). The so-called "Weidner Chronicle" states that it was Sargon himself who built Babylon "in front of Akkad" (ABC 19:51). The Eastern Canaan Amorites conquered and settled in Babylon, making it their capital in 1959 BC. From there, the old Babylonian Kingdom was born. The Kingdom then expanded into a mighty Mesopotamian Empire under the rule of its famous king: H...
This animation describes the history, the developments as well as the rise and fall of the legendary Babylonian Civilisation. This is a product of Mexus Education Pvt. Ltd., an education innovations company based in Mumbai, India. http://www.mexuseducation.com, http://www.ikenstore.in
Produced by ©2003Oregon Public Broadcasting and Red Hill Productions Inc., Narrated by Keith David and Jeremy Irons, episode 2 of the Empire series "The Kingdom of David;the saga of the Israelites".
End of Assyrian Empire forever, the Chaldean Empire (Babylonian Empire) shall Rise again http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy203/BassamAllen/Nebuchadnezzar.jpg
بابل یا بابلون شہرکی تاریخ.... Support And Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=jibransatti Ancient Babylon (Babylonian Empire) (Babylonian Empire) , History Documentary - The Power Of Babylon Hindi / Urdu Islamic History,اسلامی تاریخ
Babylon was a significant city in ancient Mesopotamia, in the fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city was built upon the Euphrates and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Babylon was originally a small Semitic Akkadian city dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BC. The town attained independence as part of a small city state with the rise of the First Amorite Babylonian Dynasty in 1894 BC. Claiming to be the successor of the more ancient Sumero-Akkadian city of Eridu, Babylon eclipsed Nippur as the "holy city" of Mesopotamia around the time Amorite king Hammurabi created the first short lived Babylonian Empire in the 18th century BC. Babylon grew and South Mesopotamia ...
History First era Dynasty of Babylon Empire 1830 BC - 1531 BC Map maps referenced from : maps and used from the geacron.com i had asked for there permission to use there sites for educational and learned uses ! and check there site out : geacron.com and twitter :https://twitter.com/geacron perhaps check me out : support the groovy and subscribe i hope you all have enjoyed stay groovy. my channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperTarihci/videos follow me : https://twitter.com/GroovyHistorian check out my groovy historical blog : http://officalgroovyhistorian.com/
Well sweetness, I love it when you wrap me up
I'm a drowning man for the third time
Twenty-one gun salute in your flag of mercy
Preparing my body for a burial at sea
So put your tongue in my ear
Through this veil of tears
Whisper what's gone wrong? gone wrong?
The world, the world she's a Babylon
Coming in from the coast it's a bad nor'easter
Waves banging rocks with migraine vengeance
Build up the tower, unlocking the secrets
The pride of man is so contentious
This is no pleasure cruise in the South Pacific
I'm bailing ice water up to my neck
Titanic's captain said that God couldn't sink her