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t h e w o MA N ' s F i l m M a k e o u t Women's Caucus--San Francisco 1972, 12 min. Newsreel, 1971, 40 min. The outward silence of a woman Produced collectively by women, making out with a boy in a car is this documentary is a valuable contrasted by her anxious inner historical document of the origins of monologue. Various shades of the modern women's movement in boredom, frustration and curi- the United States. The film delves osity are expressed in a shameless into the lives of ordinary women from articulation of the complexities of different races, educational levels female desire. Alternately funny and and class. The women talk about poignant, this film gives voice to a the daily realities of their lives as woman’s silence. wives, home-makers, and workers. They speak, sometimes with hesi- DVD Sale: $225 tancy, often with passion, about the oppression of women as they see it. U p A g a i n s t t h e w A l l M i s s A m e r i c a DVD Sale: $225 1968, 8 min. Feminists opposed to the narrow J e a n e t t e r A n k i n construct of submissive femininity The Woman's Film B r i g a d e attack the Miss America Pageant as 1968, 8 min. the epitome of the oppressive objec- In an effort to attract thousands of tification of women. The response women to march on Washington Feminist activists in the 1960s of protestors is to parade a sheep against the Vietnam War in January wearing the ‘Miss America’ sash on passionately resisted the objectification of 1968, organizers opt for a ‘digni- the boardwalk of Atlantic City. and disparagement of women. Feminists fied and respectable’ peace parade. linked the economic and sexual Other women involved are frus- DVD Sale: $225 trated because the demonstration e x p l o i t a t i o n o f w o m e n a n d d e f i e d s e x i s m , poses no threat to policy makers in misogyny, and patriarchal culture. Washington. One woman is uncom- promising: “I don’t feel like being peaceful!”

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B o bb y S e a l e B L A c k PA n t h e r 1969, 15 min. 1968, 15 min. In this prison interview, co-founder Originally released as Off the Pig, of the Black Panther Party Bobby Black Panther is a compelling Seale denounces the racist tactics document of the Black Panther of the police and calls for people Party leadership in 1967. This to mobilize against oppression. historic film contains a prison inter- A defiant political prisoner, Seale view with Huey P. Newton as well as insists his spirit will not be broken footage of Bobby Seale reading the even while he is confined in inhuman party’s 10-Point Platform. conditions; while you can jail the revolutionary, the revolution will not DVD Sale: $125 be jailed! C o mmu n i t y DVD Sale: $125 C o n t r o l Newsreel, 1969, 50 min. M ay d Ay Pa n t h e r This film documents one of the most 1969, 15 min. important struggles for education in At a May Day demonstration to free the sixties. In 1968, under intensive Black Panther Party leader Huey P. community pressure from Black Newton, speakers link the struggles and Latino communities, the State of oppressed people everywhere. of New York chose three New York Philosopher and activist Angela City school districts to become part Davis and others sympathetic to the of an experiment in community-run Black Panthers speak passionately education. In Ocean Hill-Brownsville, and with urgency about the neces- the community board requested sity of confronting injustice and the reassignment of perceived as Black Panthers giving power to the people. racists. The request brought the wrath of the United Federation of DVD Sale: $125 Teachers, city and state bureau- Responding to the pervasive racism of the 1960s cracies, and ultimately a citywide and vilified by the media, the Black Panther teacher's strike.

Party not only advocated armed resistance in DVD Sale: $225 self-defense but also provided economic and material assistance to communities in need.

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L i n c o l n H o s p i t a l T h e c A s e A g a i n s t 1970, 12 min. L i n c o l n C e n t e r Frustrated by the disconnect 1968,12 minutes between provided mental health More than 20,000 Latino fami- services and the needs of the lies were displaced to make way predominately Puerto Rican and for Lincoln Center, home to the Black community in the South Metropolitan Opera and the New Bronx, workers take over the Lincoln York Symphony. This film examines Mental Health Center and run it "the patrons of art" complex (corpo- themselves. Because “the whole rations and wealthy families) and the system conspires to make people culture displayed there. Juxtaposing sick,” the community actively envi- the atmosphere of Lincoln Center sions a radical redefinition of health with the vibrant street culture of a and wellness. displaced neighborhood, the film DVD Sale: $125 correctly predicts the process by which the West Side was to be B r e A K A n d e n t e r turned into a high-rent area for the ( R o mp i e n d o P u e r t a s ) upper middle class. 1970, 42 min. Puerto Rican Demonstration in Washington DC. This film captures the militant DVD Sale: $125 antecedents to today's housing M y C o u n t r y reclamation movement in New Latino communites were fractured by policies of O c c up i e d York City. In 1970, several hundred Tami Gold & Heather Archibald, neglect and marginalization. Community programs Puerto Rican and Dominican fami- 1971, 30 min were established to provide food, clothing and lies reclaimed housing left vacant by In this moving film, the personal the city. They pulled the boards off health services in their communities. testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, the doors, cleaned and repaired the peasants, and guerrillas are drama- buildings and moved in. e l P U E B l o s e l e VA n t A ( T h e P e o p l e A r e R i s i n g ) tized to provide the narration for a 1971, 50 min. DVD Sale: $225 powerful overview of the history of In the late 60’s, Puerto Ricans living in New York City faced racial discrimi- U.S. destabilization of democracy in nation, deficient community services, and few job opportunities. A classic of Central America. Latino/a cinema, El Pueblo Se Levanta captures the compassion and mili- tancy of the Young Lords as they address these injustices by implementing DVD Sale: $175 their own health, educational, and public assistance programs.

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AM e r i c A B o s t o n d r AF T 1969, 30 min. r e s i s t A n c e g r o UP Against the background of the esca- 1968, 18 min. lation of the war in Vietnam, America A profile of a grassroots anti-war documents the development of the group in Boston, this short film anti-war movement on the home- documents some of the tactics and front. Conversations with Vietnam activities used by draft resistance veterans, young teenagers, and groups across the country during African American militants contex- the Vietnam war. Using the law to tualizes footage that graphically keep young men out of the war, this depicts the heightened incidents of group helped over 150 people each mass protest and police repression. week escape service and educate themselves and their communities DVD Sale: $175 about alternatives to combat.

s U M M e r 6 8 ' DVD Sale: $150 Norman Fruchter & John Douglas 1969, 60 min. This documentary provides an in- c h i c A g o depth examination of protest activities c o n V e n t i o n surrounding the Democratic National c h A l l e n g e America Convention in Chicago. It documents 1968, 17 min. draft resistance, the growth of G.I. Using footage taken in the midst coffee houses, the development of of demonstrations during the alternative media and the early days Democratic National Convention of A generation of activists challenged the of Newsreel itself. It is particularly 1968, this film conveys the imme- government and its oppressive military and useful in its exploration of the prob- diacy of anti-war organizing in economic policies. Seething at the disconnect lems the movement faced in using meeting rooms, at rallies and in the mainstream media to broadcast its between their own personal values and the streets. It is a valuable historical message. It is also a document of portrait of events that culminated in structure of society, students and anti-war the philosophies, tactics, and prob- police riots against the protesters. agitators struggled to realign cultural and lems of the student movement in the DVD Sale: $175 political priorities. crucial year of 1968. DVD Sale: $225

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M i l l I n N o g A M e 1968, 12 min. 1968, 17 min. Angered by the indifference of In 1968, peaceful protesters are holiday shoppers on 5th Avenue outraged when they are faced with in Manhattan at the height of the police brutality at a massive anti- Vietnam War, protesters attempt to war demonstration in Washington, interrupt business as usual. People D.C. In the crisis of the moment, one take to the streets in solidarity with man articulates a moral obligation to the Vietnamese, linking capitalist and protest the illegal war, while others militarist domination. express concern it might be the “end of the non-violent movement.” DVD Sale: $125 DVD Sale: $175

g A r ba g e O n ly t h e 1968, 10 min. During a prolonged garbage collec- B e g i n n i n g 1971, 20 min. Yippie tor's strike in New York City, a group In April 1971, thousands of G.I.'s of youths from the Lower East Side came to Washington, D.C., to protest of Manhattan decide to use the situ- the Vietnam War. They stood in front Y i pp i e P e o p l e ' s w A r ation to make a political statement. 1968, 10 min. 1969, 40 min. of the U.S. Capitol and threw away They collect garbage from the streets Filmed as the official statement of This newly restored film records the their medals. Told from the veterans' of their community and deposit piles the Youth International Party, this mobilization and participation of the point of view, the film examines of it on the grounds of Lincoln Center, film is as freewheeling and irreverent Vietnamese people in their country's some of the conditions that led "The Establishment's" cultural show- as the Yippies themselves. It pres- fight against colonialism and foreign many decorated but disillusioned case. ents an overview of 1968 Chicago, military aggression. Moving beyond veterans to such dramatic displays Mayor Daley, and the pig the the perception of the Vietnamese as DVD Sale: $175 of non-collaboration. As one former Yippies ran for president. The film victims, the film investigates a society G.I. explained, "A guy goes to 'Nam juxtaposes orgy scenes from D.W. fully committed to national liberation. and finds out that a communist is an Griffith's "Intolerance" and Keystone It details their long history of resisting 18 year old kid or a woman with chil- Cops chases with Yippie antics the U.S. military as well as their strug- dren.” in Chicago. The film also explores gles to overcome the French colonial DVD Sale: $125 the issue of police brutality - both legacy of economic underdevelop- humorously and with an undercur- ment. rent of deep anger. DVD Sale: $300 DVD Sale: $175

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c o l UMB I A r e V o lt W i l m i n g t o n 1968, 50 min. 1970, 15 min. In April 1968, black and white students This documentary is about a rebelled against the university admin- "company town." The DuPont family istration, occupying five buildings, controls the state of Delaware as if including the president's office in one it were a private kingdom through of the first campus revolts of the Civil the giant DuPont Corporation. Their Rights/Vietnam War era. The revolt normal image as benevolent, philan- began as a protest against university thropic liberals is challenged when expansion into neighboring commu- the National Guard into Wilmington nities and its role as a slum lord. after the assassination of Dr. Martin After five days of student control, the Luther King, Jr. to occupy the city administrators and trustees ordered for ten months. Through interviews the police to clear the buildings. and verite footage, the film exposes What resulted was an unprecedented how the DuPont Corporation domi- display of brutality and repression. nates its workers through its control of education, media, politics and the DVD Sale: $225 economy. s A n F r a n c i s c o P e o p l e ' s S t a t e : O n S t r i k e 1969, 25 min. F i r e h o u s e # 1 1969, 25 min. In April 1968, San Francisco State "We're making our point to the Students for a Democratic Society whole United States: you can fight united with the Third World Liberation the system; and win!" The Polish Front to protest the ROTC Military Americans of Northside, Brooklyn training program on campus and the realized their community was under entrenched racism of the administra- attack by the city bureaucracy: tion and faculty. Students went on People's Park schools, hospitals, and other services strike and occupied the administra- has been closed or cut back and the tive building. This film examines the P e o P l e ' S PA r k neighborhood had began to decay. violent tactics of the police and the 1969, 25 min. The closing of the local firehouse In 1969 the University of California at Berkeley began buying up and strategies of student resistance. was the last straw. They occupied destroying a nearby area populated by hippies, the poor, and other members DVD Sale: $225 the firehouse and began a campaign of the "counter culture". In retaliation, the community laid claim to a barren to win back fire protection and revi- block being used as a parking lot to create a People's Park. The National talize their neighborhood. Guard was called in to occupy Berkeley and a young man was killed. This film documents the infamous struggle resulting in the destruction of the park. DVD Sale: $175

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