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A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eldridge Cleaver

The Newsreel collective’s JANIE’S JANIE breaks with the group’s usual format for a more personal approach, following a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Giese

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It documents draft...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Kramer

In April 1968, black and white students rebelled against the university administration, occupying five buildings, including the president's office in...

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This film documents one of the most important struggles for education in the sixties. In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and...

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The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression.

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Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City...

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Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville,...

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A film about Herman Ferguson, a candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Freedom and Peace ticket in the 1968 election.

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As leaders of the Movement met in the relative calm of a Chicago suburb in March to plan the strategy for the summer, the empty streets of the city...

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Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

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A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.

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This film gives a general outline of the kinds of work being done in The Boston-Cambridge area by National Resist and the New England Resistance.

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During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation...

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In January 1968, 10,000 women led a peaceful march on Washington in protest against the Vietnam War. This film documents the march and raises...

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An extended interview with the four American sailors who deserted in protest against the war in Vietnam in 1967. Filmed in Japan, the interviews...

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This film is about the oppression of the Third World community in the Mission district of San Francisco, specifically seven Latino youths who were...

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In October, 1967, 100,000 people marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam War. Marvin Fishman and Masanori Oe with help from Jonathan...

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"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film...

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Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front....

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