Newsreel Movies

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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