Newsreel Movies

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...

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

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

When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

In order to raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas eve. To the...

In the late 1960s the University of California at Berkeley began buying up and destroying a nearby area populated by hippies, the poor, and other...

Break and Enter documents Operation Move In and the New York squatter’s movement in the 1970s. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and...

In the late '60s, conditions for Puerto Ricans in the US reached the boiling point. Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services,...

Nine months after the riot. Malcolm X Memorial Services held at I.S. 201 in New York, March 1968, and scenes from Newark, March 1968.