The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

(a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup) A television crew from Ireland was inside the presidential palace on 11 April 2002 when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was deposed and two days later when he returned to power, recording "what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état.
The film portrays Chávez's first years as president before the coup, and the support he had among the working class and the poor. But the privately owned media and upper class opposition worked with military and big business to create an anti-Chávez climate leading to the day of the coup. The film recorded images of the events that contradict the private media and the U.S. State Department, and shows evidence that the coup was a conspiracy between anti-Chávez factions and the U.S. government.
A powerful documentary and a political thriller, this film had a successful theatrical run in the U.S. but has never been released on DVD, or shown on TV. Fullscreen here. Download.