NORWAY – A new Forum Film Series will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 29, at the Norway Memorial Library on Main Street. The series is sponsored by the Public Interest Forum.

The first film is a two-hour documentary, “What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy – The War Against the Third World.” Refreshments will be available, and there will be an opportunity for discussion. The movie is a detailed survey of the long history of U.S. interventionism throughout the world.

Other films about U.S. interventionism will be shown at 7 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month, from March through May. There is no charge, but donations toward expenses are welcome.

• March 4: “Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War.” This documentary goes behind the walls of government as more than 20 CIA, Pentagon and Foreign Service experts detail what they say are the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the rationale for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

• March 18: “Plan Columbia: Cashing In On The Drug War Failure.” This 2002 documentary explores this question with probing analysis. There are interviews with experts who speak out and with Colombians from all walks of life.

• April 1: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” This documentary film is not readily available in the United States, but has gained acclaim and viewers galore elsewhere in the world. An Irish documentary team was on hand in Caracas, Venezuela, in April 2002 when Hugo Chavez was undone for two days by a coup facilitated by the U.S. government.

• April 15: “Missing.” A feature-length film tells the story of U.S. businessman Ed Horman (played by Jack Lemmon) who goes to Chile to look for his son Charles, missing in the wake of the 1973 Pinochet military coup that overthrew the elected Allende socialist government. His daughter-in-law (Sissy Spacek) helps in the search. Eventually the father realizes that his son’s friends are endangered, that he will not return, and that his own government may have had a hand in Charles’ death.

• May 6: “Life and Debt.” Globalization is the subject of this 2001 documentary. It portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of the World Bank and the IMF. The documentary provides background to an understanding of protests in Seattle, Cancun, and Miami, and it argues that globalization represents the needs of multi-national corporations rather than those of the people.

• May 20: “Unprecedented: The 2000 Elections.” Here the story is laid out of how some feel the Republican Party stole the 2000 presidential election. The film shows how operatives systematically disenfranchised Florida’s Black voters. They then blocked a fair recount of the vote, and went on to use the Supreme Court to give the presidency to George W. Bush.

For information phone Tom at 743-2183.