Burkina Faso, Africa, October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire breaks the evening's silence and kills President Thomas Sankara. Would the assassins have been sent by his brothers in arms, Blaise Compaore, with whom he had launched the Marxist Revolution a few years before? His main argument was also one of the assassins: Sankara had lost all sense of reality and was leading the Revolution into chaos. It needed to be "rectified". But who really was behind his "rectification" and why? Dark forces from France, the former colonial power, envying neighbor states, wealthy business interests?

Originally released by Film Ideas, 2010. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 15, 2019.

Introduction-Thomas Sankara: Fratricide In Burkina, Africa (0:47); --Political and Social Perspectives (4:40); -- Rising Government Figure (5:41); -- New System of Power (2:45); -- Regime Support and Framework (6:41); -- Social Benefits (5:20); -- Advancing Revolution (7:05); -- Sankara's Assassination (5:47); -- French Connection to Murder (7:56); -- Inquest and Ideologies (3:46); -- Credits: Thomas Sankara: Fratricide In Burkina, Africa (1:17); .