Education on Film
Making the Impossible Possible
MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s.
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Childcare: People's Liberation (Newsreel #56)
The film shows how community-run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other.
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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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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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Catching Babies: Celebrating the Power of Birth, Mothers and Midwives
What if we could change the world by changing the way babies are born? Shot in El Paso, Texas, CATCHING BABIES tells the stories of mothers and midwives on the journey to bring life into the world.
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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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She Rhymes Like a Girl
Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops.
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R.O.T.C. (Newsreel #34)
An anti-ROTC film with data demonstrating university complicity with the military, what that military is used for and why the supposedly neutral universities want to keep ROTC on campus.
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139X (Newsreel #22)
Berkeley students organized a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X for credit.
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True North
Voices of 1960s Black Montréal rise through unseen archives.
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Student Movement in Indonesia: 15 Years Later
To mark the 15th anniversary of the 1998 student movement in Indonesia, filmmaker Tino Saroengallo interviews former leaders of the student movement.
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Masizakhe: Building Each Other
This documentary explores the role of art, social activism and Hip-Hop in South Africa’s education system after the end of Apartheid.
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Knowledge Reigns Supreme
Using the words and music of rapper KRS-1, this video short questions the current wave of multiculturalism in the educational system.
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Heart of Harlem
HEART OF HARLEM traces the life and times of Holcombe Rucker, who founded a summer basketball league while working for New York Citys Parks Department in order to give young people a positive alternative to the streets.
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Finding D-QU: The Lonely Struggle of California's only Tribal College
In 2005, D-Q University, California’s only tribal college, was shut down after a 35-year struggle, but its supporters fight to hold on to a dream that was never fully realized.
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Whatever It Takes
WHATEVER IT TAKES follows the amazing first year of a cutting-edge public high school in NYC’s South Bronx.
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Beyond the Bricks: A New Era of Education
BEYOND THE BRICKS follows two African American students as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system.
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Arctic Hip Hop
Capitalizing on the popularity of Hip-Hop, social worker and longtime B-boy Stephen Leafloor has been bringing positive Hip-Hop workshops to Northern Canada. 5 days, 2 cultures, 1 beat
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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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