Newsreel Movies

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

As a young couple make out in a car, we hear the woman’s stream of consciousness thoughts. She worries about her reputation and whether...

Shot in Vietnam in the summer of 1969, this documentary creates a vivid portrait of the countryside and ways of life during the war.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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