Thunder in Guyana

It chronicles the relationship between the Chicago-born Janet Rosenberg and Cheddi Jagan, a native of Guyana on South America's northern coast, who fell in love, married and set off for the British colony to start a popular socialist revolution, that led them first to jail and later to the Presidency of the nation.

Thunder in Guyana was featured in numerous film festivals and more widely in February 2005 on Independent Lens, a series on PBS.

Janet Rosenberg Jagan, pegged "the Second Eva Peron",[2] in an effort to explain how her typical Jewish upbringing led to her out-of-the-ordinary adult life pursuing service work and Marxist politics in Latin America.

Newsreel footage traces the British colony's slow emancipation and assertion of independence, while discussions with Janet and her followers describe what the courageous female elected official did to organize and educate the country's impoverished working class.

In the film, Janet laughs recalling how enraged her mother and father were when they learned that, as a teenager, she took flying lessons with the allowance they provided.

She recalls that her male relatives struggled to find employment, and that her school friends would tell racially prejudiced stories that they did not completely understand.