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A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (90)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.More Information -
Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America
Based on the landmark book, HARVEST OF EMPIRE, by award-winning journalist Juan González.More Information -
Palante, Siempre Palante!
The documentary surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords' activities and philosophy, the torturous end of the organization and its inspiring legacy.More Information -
Revolution Until Victory a.k.a. We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)
Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relationship to Western imperialism.More Information -
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.More Information -
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.More Information -
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Exposes the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, NJ.More Information -
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.More Information -
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.More Information -
The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.More Information -
AI: African Intelligence
Granted rare access to Ndeup, a spiritual healing ceremony practiced by Lebou peoples in Senegal, filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara wonders what connections can be made between the possession ritual and Western logic and technology.More Information -
Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967.More Information -
Bringin' in Da Spirit
A celebration of women who have committed themselves to midwifery amidst powerful misconceptions about the practice and virulent opposition from practitioners of Western medicine.More Information -
Take Your Bags
A very different look at the Middle PassageMore Information -
A Dream Is What You Wake Up From
A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role of Black families in American society.More Information -
A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (52)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.More Information -
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.More Information -
Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation
“Every diaspora is the passage from unity to multiplicity.” Manthia Diawara’s 2009 conversations with Édouard Glissant detail the latter’s theory of Relation and the concept of Tout-monde.More Information -
Living Along the Fenceline
The U.S. has 1,000 bases worldwide. The Pentagon says they make us secure. These women disagree.More Information -
Janie's Janie (Newsreel #)
"First I was my father's Janie, then I was my Charlie's Janie, now I'm Janie's Janie." --Jane GieseMore Information -
Sweet Sugar Rage
Documents how Jamaica's Sistren Collective theatre uses imporvisation and theatre as a consciousness raising tool among rural and urban working women in Jamaica.More Information -
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.More Information -
Another Brother
Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, ANOTHER BROTHER tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch.More Information -
Inside Women Inside
This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons.More Information -
Percussion, Impressions and Reality
Interviews and performances by Puerto Rican musicians in New York illustrate how traditional music has served as mode of resistance of cultural domination.More Information -
Up Against the Wall Miss America (Newsreel #22)
This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents.More Information -
Voices of the Gods
This documentary captures the rich legacy of ancient African religions practiced in the United States.More Information -
EL SIGNO VACÍO (the empty sign)
Through found footage and portraits of local artists and activists the film is a playful journey into the complex layers of the US occupation of Puerto Rico.More Information -
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.More Information -
In a Perfect World…
A documentary film about men raised by single mothers.More Information -
La Cocina de las Patronas
Day after day, for over 20 years, a group of women in Mexico, prepare and give meals to Central American migrants who travel atop La Bestia, a U.S.-bound freight train.More Information -
Living Quechua
One Peruvian woman’s mission to revive her indigenous language becomes an inspiration for Quechua speakers, a historically marginalized community in New York City.More Information -
Mill-In a.k.a. The Christmas Mill-In (Newsreel #6)
To raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve.More Information -
My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America.More Information -
No Game (Newsreel #2)
In October, 1967, 100,000 people marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam War.More Information -
People's War (Newsreel #43)
"People's War" records the mobilization and participation of the Vietnamese people in their country's fight against colonialism and foreign military aggression.More Information -
The Wreck of the New York Subway (Newsreel #47)
During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare.More Information -
Infiltrators
A visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank.More Information -
Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Audre Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany.More Information -
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.More Information -
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.More Information -
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides
Three journalists trace their mothers’ tumultuous journey in new film about WWII Japanese war brides.More Information -
Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel #)
Felix the Cat goes on strike!More Information -
Garbage a.k.a. Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)
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 make a political statement.More Information -
Homes Apart: Korea
When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart.More Information -
Mississippi Triangle
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.More Information -
Orientations
More than a dozen men and women of different Asian backgrounds speak frankly about their lives as members of a minority within a minority.More Information -
Re:Orientations
A fascinating look into the lives and thoughts of seven Queer Pan-Asian Canadians as they look back on the groundbreaking documentary ORIENTATIONS.More Information -
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.More Information -
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.More Information -
Chasing the Moon
This fascinating film presents the meditations of a Black lesbian grappling with the memory of an attack that makes her wary about being out on the street.More Information -
Mohawk Nation
In 1974, a group of Mohawks reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh.More Information -
Army a.k.a. Army Film (Newsreel #36)
Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S. military and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military.More Information -
Hafu - The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan
HAFU is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan.More Information -
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.More Information -
Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California
INVISIBLE ROOTS is an intimate look at Afro-Mexicans living in Southern California as they discuss complex issues of racial, national and cultural identities.More Information -
Pig Power (Newsreel #23)
As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder".More Information -
Yippie (Newsreel #)
Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves.More Information -
Before David
A short film about pre-partum depression, its symptoms, and the difficulties it poses when a woman is going through extreme physical and emotional changes.More Information -
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds, and Sovereignty
In Moloka’I, a group of Hawaiian residents oppose the biotech industry's use of their land to test genetically engineered seeds and work to restore ancient Hawaiian farming practices.More Information -
Four Days in May: Kingston 2010
In 2010 Jamaican military and police forces declared a state of emergency in West Kingston to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke—who had been ordered for extradition to the U.S. At least 75 civilians died as a result. This doc juxtaposes the harrowing testimonies of the survivors with footage from the U.S. drone that was surveilling the operation from above.More Information -
Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens
A documentary about the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident,” a moment just after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians.More Information -
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.More Information -
Chircales
This film portrays the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, documenting the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Chircales offers the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.More Information -
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories
4K Restoration! This documentary film highlights the experience of Black Cuban American family, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe.More Information -
Enemy Alien
A Palestinian activist’s fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.More Information -
Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution
Grenada 1983. Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and a number of his colleagues were machine-gunned to death. Their bodies were never found.More Information -
Foster Care Film Series: Volume 1
In this award-winning collection, Charell, Ashley, and Camilla share their deeply personal stories about their experiences in foster care and how it impacted their lives.More Information -
Gideon's Army
Everyone deserves the best defense. They fight for it. GIDEON’S ARMY takes an inside look at the criminal justice system from the perspective of three young public defenders in the South.More Information -
If You Could Walk In My Shoes
IF YOU COULD WALK IN MY SHOES documents the struggle of an Ecuadorian-American family as they transforms their lives from workers to business owners.More Information -
Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity
A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard.More Information -
Nuyorican Básquet
Nuyorican Básquet chronicles the dramatic story of the Puerto Rican national basketball team’s participation in the 1979 Pan American Games.More Information -
Resist - With Noam Chomsky a.k.a. Chomsky-Resist (Newsreel #1)
This short film offers a rare look at Noam Chomsky in the late 1960s as he speaks candidly about the war in Vietnam and articulates critiques that have an eerie resonance in the present day.More Information -
Resistance at Tule Lake
RESISTANCE AT TULE LAKE tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II.More Information -
Summer '68 (Newsreel #505)
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.More Information -
The Chinatown Files
This documentary presents the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chinese American community during the 1950s and the 1960s, it presents first-hand accounts of seven men and women's experiences of being hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation in America.More Information -
The Throwaways
THE THROWAWAYS is a timely and provocative look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black males in America. Recommended by Video Librarian Magazine.More Information -
Tunisian Women: We Will Stand Up
TUNISIAN WOMEN is a powerful record of the work of women activist in Tunisia and a celebration of Tunisia's extraordinary history of activism and resistance against authoritarian rule since the 1970s.More Information -
To Build a Monument
Three Black queer individuals reflect on their connections to their ancestors. Inspired by Sakia Gunn's legacy, the film meditates on grief, death, queerness and ancestorhood.More Information -
Body and Soul (De Corpo e Alma)
Victoria, Mariana and Vasco are three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities living in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city.More Information -
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.More Information -
Keep Saray Home
In the outskirts of Boston, three Southeast Asian families face the impending threat of deportation.More Information -
Mama Gloria
A 75-year-old Black trailblazing transgender activist who started a charm school for homeless trans youth and is now aging with joy and grace.More Information -
Tongues of Heaven
Four young indigenous women from Taiwan and Hawai’i share their questions, desires and challenges of learning the language of their forebears—languages that are endangered.More Information -
War for Guam
The first public television documentary about the experience and impact of WWII on Guam, a US territory since 1898.More Information -
A Letter from Yene
Yene, a fishing village on the coast of Senegal, has been besieged by coastal erosion and uncontrolled urbanization in recent decades. Local fishermen, pebble collectors, and filmmaker Manthia Diawara address how they collectively and unknowingly contribute to undermining their shared environment.More Information -
Imelda Is Not Alone
Salvadorian teenager Imelda Cortez's only hope at freedom is a local citizen’s movement that dares to defend women who are persecuted under El Salvador's total ban on abortion. The result is a shocking account of an ongoing human rights crisis and a moving portrait of those who fight for a better society.More Information -
Pa Bell Go to Hell (Newsreel #)
In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions.More Information -
The #1 Bus Chronicles
"The #1 Bus Chronicles" uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers.More Information -
79 Spring Times of Ho Chi Minh
Depicting a life that spanned three revolutions, three continents, and three wars, the film charts Ho Chi Minh's progression from militant student to leader of Vietnam's revolutionary independence movement.More Information -
A Family Called Abrew
The Abrew family has been based in Scotland since the end of the 19th century and worked in Vaudeville, theater, and later, in film made throughout Europe where they faced racial discrimination and exoticization as performers for primarily white audiences.More Information -
Afro-punk
AFRO-PUNK, the movie that sparked the movement!More Information -
All the Ladies Say
Documentary on Female BreakdancersMore Information -
Animal Appetites
Michael Cho's biting critique on popular cultural stereotypes centers on the case of two Cambodian immigrants tried in California on charges of slaughtering their pet dog for food.More Information -
Dal Puri Diaspora
The journey of West Indian rotis across three continents.More Information -
Drills of Liberation
In the wake of climate change, a new social movement emerges in Puerto Rico to protest austerity measures imposed by US colonial forces.More Information -
I.S. 201 and Report from Newark (Newsreel #10)
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.More Information -
Indochina: Traces of a Mother
INDOCHINA: TRACES OF A MOTHER documents a little-known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history.More Information -
Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor
A street vendor, mother and activist from Guatemala makes $40 a day in New york City, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.More Information -
NCZ Goes to War
An examination of the Persian Gulf anti-war movement and its scant coverage in the mainstream media.More Information -
Only the Beginning (Newsreel #59)
In April 1971, thousands of G.I.'s came to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War.More Information -
The Haight a.k.a. The Streets Belong to the People (Newsreel #21)
The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression.More Information -
Three Tours
Three US. militaray veterans work to heal their wounds and battle with PTSD resulting from their deployments in Iraq.More Information -
Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)
January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle.More Information -
War in Daechuri
Spurred by the U.S. government's plan to expand military bases in Pyeongtaek city, a war is being waged against the farmers of the South Korean village of Daechuri.More Information -
Blueprint for My People
This short film illuminates the African-American experience by lyrically interweaving spoken-word narration of Margaret Walker’s epic poem, “For My People” with contemporary images and rare 19th century cyanotypes (blue photographic prints known as “blueprints”) of African Americans.More Information -
Either Or (Newsreel #)
A short newsreel showing the grassroots organizing efforts of the East Coast Panthers as they attempted to implement community-based social programs while simultaneously battling severe harassment from local and federal authorities.More Information -
…I Told You So
Lawson Inada's poetry deals with the multicultural experiences of Asian Americans, is interwoven with scenes from his life as he visits the Chicano neighborhood where he grew up, plays with his son, and travels through the streets of downtown Fresno, California with its graffiti, bars and Nisei Barber Shop.More Information -
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.More Information -
A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality
In this humorous video, five women talk about menstruation, masturbation and ejaculation.More Information -
A Day of Plane Hunting
Vietnamese women played a crucial role in the Vietnam War.More Information -
A Song for Ourselves
A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima.More Information -
Angels of the Earth, The
In his first trip to the city, Sinchi faces deceit, violence and rejection from strangers and from his long lost brother, Antonio.More Information -
Anomaly: A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity
A Documentary Film about Multiracial IdentityMore Information -
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.More Information -
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.More Information -
Claiming Our Voice
In CLAIMING OUR VOICE, female, immigrant domestic workers bring their stories of survival, empowerment and activism to center stage.More Information -
Conquering Fear a.k.a. Overcoming Fear
An empowering fiction film about women’s property rights and domestic violence.More Information -
Deported
DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America.More Information -
El Culebrero, La Muerte de un Colombiano y el Acordeonista Que No Esta
This video presents the transient aspects of the gay Colombian experience in New York City.More Information -
Four Americans (Newsreel #3)
Anti-war statement by four American soldiers who deserted the Army during the Vietnam War in 1967.More Information -
Fuera Yanqui (Newsreel # )
This film provides a short history of the Dominican Republic and an analysis of the control exerted on its economic structure by U.S. interests.More Information -
I'm Free Now, You Are Free
A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9.More Information -
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.More Information -
Mas Man
Peter Minshall, Trinidad Carnival Artist.More Information -
A Meat-Cooperative a.k.a 6th Street Meat Club (Newsreel #11)
Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.More Information -
Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy In/On Exile
Iranian exile and scholar Hamid Naficy, along with his family in Iran, tell us about the complexities of personal identity and exile in a globalized world.More Information -
Musica
A rich overview of the development of Afro-Cuban music in the United States, featuring interviews with Mario Bauza and Dizzie Gillespie.More Information -
Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx
Dance artists Sita Frederick, Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, and Marion Ramirez collaborate to create a performance work that explores Caribbean and Latina-American experiences through dance.More Information -
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.More Information -
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.More Information -
Riot-Control Weapons (Newsreel #9)
A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.More Information -
Scene Not Heard
Shot in Philadelphia, this documentary features the work of female Hip-Hop artists Lady B, Schoolly D, Rennie Harris, Bahamadia, and Ursula Rucker.More Information -
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.More Information -
The Amerindians
In this documentary, filmmaker Tracy Assing makes a personal exploration of her roots as a member of the Santa Rosa Carib Community based in Arima.More Information -
The Earth Belongs to the People (Newsreel #57)
An analysis of the ecological crisis, this film dispells the myths that big business and big government had been telling the people about the global ecological crisis.More Information -
This is My House
This experimental short humorously and powerfully explores women's body imagery.More Information -
Voodoo Dance: A Tribute to the People of Haiti
Documents the significant role of Voodoo in Haitian culture from the perspectives of Voodoo priests, government officials, historians and politicians.More Information -
Voting Rights Now
VOTING RIGHTS NOW documents the Voting and Human Rights March organized by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.More Information
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