U.S. History from the Movements
The footage left out of the history books. Since 1968, Third World Newsreel has documented the movements demanding social justice. Our collection captures U.S. history from inside the movements: Black Power, Puerto Rican activism, women’s liberation, anti-war resistance, housing rights, immigrant communities. This footage was shot by filmmakers embedded in the movements—material that exists because they were there.
Available for theatrical screening, educational licensing, and archival licensing. For documentary producers: license rare footage of the Black Panther Party, Young Lords, draft resistance, feminist organizing, and urban activism from the late 1960s and early 1970s. For programmers: curated retrospectives and individual titles available DCP-ready.
The Case Against Lincoln Center (Newsreel #17)
More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony.
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El Pueblo se Levanta aka The People Are Rising (Newsreel #63)
Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities in New York City began to address these injustices by using direct action.
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Break and Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city.
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Mississippi Triangle (110 minutes)
This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict.
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Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967.
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America a.k.a. Amerika (Newsreel #)
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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Berkeley Rebellion (Newsreel #20)
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 Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968.
This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.
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The # 7 Train: An Immigrant Journey
Every day 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride a subway that runs from Flushing to Times Square, going through Queens, the most culturally diverse region in the United States.
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Anti-Draft in Boston: Boston Draft Resistance Group a.k.a. BDRG (Newsreel #7)
A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War.
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Summer '68 (Newsreel #505)
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Mohawk Nation
In 1974, a group of Mohawks reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh.
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High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.
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Resistance at Tule Lake
During World War II, 12,000 Japanese Americans dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration.
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Only the Beginning (Newsreel #59)
In April 1971, thousands of G.I.'s came to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War.
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Community Control (Newsreel #24)
In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education.
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Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35)
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 the clinic themselves.
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Catonsville Nine (Newsreel #18)
Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville, Maryland.
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Anti-Draft in Boston: Resist and the New England Resistance a.k.a. Resist-Resistance (Newsreel #8)
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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Bobby Seale a.k.a. Interview with Bobby Seale (Newsreel #44)
Bobby Seale, a member of the Black Panthers, talks about his treatment as a political prisoner and his involvement in the Black Liberation and anti-war movements.
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San Francisco State: On Strike a.k.a. San Francisco State Sit In (Newsreel #26)
A documentary of the now famous San Francisco State strike of 1968-69.
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