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...

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

The Newsreel collective’s JANIE’S JANIE breaks with the group’s usual format for a more personal approach, following a woman’s journey to self-determi...

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

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

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

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 C...

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

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

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 ar...

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

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

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.

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 to...

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 question...

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

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

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 Che...

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

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