# Capital of Earth: The Maroons of Moore Town

VHS

Directed and produced by Jefferson Miller

This historical documentary, filmed in Jamaica, focuses on the Maroons, direct descendants of escaped African slaves who formed rebel communities in the Blue Mountains. After a hundred years of guerrilla warfare against the British, they won freedom and political autonomy. Illustrates aspects of their unique and original West African heritage that are now at odds with the pressures of model social and economic change

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1979
- By: Miller, Jefferson, PCR Films and Video in the Behavioral Sciences
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/capitalofearththemaroonsofmooretown)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/capitalofearththemaroonsofmooretown?play=1)