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The Newsreel, most frequently called Newsreel, was an American filmmaking collective founded in New York City in late 1967. In keeping with the radical student/youth, antiwar and Black power movements of the time, the group explicitly described its purpose as using "films and other propaganda in aiding the revolutionary movement."
Total trailers found: 31
13 July 1968
"More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony.
05 May 1969
Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front.
01 January 1968
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.
10 January 1968
In January 1968, 10,000 women led a peaceful, march on Washington in protest against the Vietnam War.
01 January 1973
Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, WE ARE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relation ship to the Western imperialism.
01 October 1968
In April 1968, black and white students rebelled against the university administration, occupying five buildings, including the president's office in one of the first campus revolts of the Civil Rights/Vietnam War era.
01 January 1969
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 members of the "counter culture".
01 January 1968
In order to raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas eve.
01 January 1968
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.
01 January 1971
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.
01 January 1967
An extended interview with the four American sailors who deserted in protest against the war in Vietnam in 1967.
01 January 1971
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.
01 January 1968
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.
01 January 1968
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.
01 January 1968
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.
01 January 1969
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.
01 January 1968
A film about Herman Ferguson, a candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Freedom and Peace ticket in the 1968 election.
01 January 1968
As leaders of the Movement met in the relative calm of a Chicago suburb in March to plan the strategy for the summer, the empty streets of the city are waiting, and ominous.
01 January 1969
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.
01 January 1968
Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.
01 January 1968
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.
01 January 1968
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".
01 January 1968
A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.
01 January 1971
Break and Enter documents Operation Move In and the New York squatter’s movement in the 1970s. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city.
01 January 1969
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.
01 January 1969
This film documents one of the most important struggles for education in the sixties. 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.
01 January 1968
"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner.
01 January 1969
This film documents a play given at the March 28th, 1969 abortion rally by some very angry women. A beauty contestant is primed by her mother, her teacher, her boyfriend, an ad man, and a capitalist for the roles she must fulfill to be a successful winner.
01 January 1970
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.
01 January 1968
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.
01 January 1971
A collectively made documentary about groups of women covering the widest possible demographic range, talking about their experience of womanhood in the United States of America.
