Third World Newsreel Movie Trailers
Most Popular Third World Newsreel Trailers
Total trailers found: 37
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner Trailer (1980)
06 December 1980
The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States.
Salty Dog Blues Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a median age of 82, are beset with a host of life-threatening illnesses, the movie tells how they navigated issues of racism, disparities in the workplace, gender and familial relations.
De*fat*ting Trailer (2000)
10 January 2000
A film exploring the intersections of race and gender with regard to fatphobia.
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde Trailer (1995)
06 January 1995
The career of iconic and influential poet and writer Audre Lorde is seen up until death.
People's Firehouse #1 Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
"We're making our point to the whole United States: you can fight the system; and win!" The Polish Americans of Northside, Brooklyn realized their community was under attack by the city bureaucracy: schools, hospitals, and other services has been closed or cut back and the neighborhood had began to decay.
Mohawk Nation Trailer (1978)
22 May 1978
In May 1974 a group of Mohawk activists reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh.
Environmental Racism Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
In two 30 minute programs that combine footage from over 20 sources, this tape focuses on educating and organizing disadvantaged communities to act on environmental issues and conditions affecting them.
Demarcations Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
Ragusa utilizes the female form as the terrain to examine recollections of a rape. The filmmaker emphasizes the manner by which identity and exoticism are played out on the level of the female body.
Jareena: Portrait of a Hijda Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Documents the life of a member of a transsexual sect, both at her home in the countryside and with a group of her fellows in a Hamam in Bangalore.
Teach Our Children Trailer (1972)
02 January 1972
DocumentaThis film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights.
Bittersweet Survival: Southeast Asian Refugees in America Trailer (1982)
05 May 1982
This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
A Dream Is What You Wake Up From Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Three black families, observed in their daily lives, their thoughts, values, and aspirations expressed on the soundtrack, and their different approaches to the struggle for survival in contemporary society and their methods of coping with the contradictory stresses placed on the individual in the family environment.
Homes Apart: Korea Trailer (1991)
02 January 1991
They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart.
From Spikes to Spindles Trailer (1976)
02 January 1976
This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community.
Inside Women Inside Trailer (1978)
31 December 1978
This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Correctional Institute for Women at Riker's Island, New York.
Resist with Noam Chomsky (Newsreel #1) Trailer (1968)
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.
Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx Trailer (2018)
01 December 2018
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.
The Lower 9: A Story of Home (Short Version) Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
THE LOWER 9: A STORY OF HOME showcases four determined Lower Ninth Ward residents who share their most intimate stories of home, as they resume their lives years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their neighborhood.
Musica Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
This film is an odyssey through the eyes, words and music of individuals who pioneered Afro-Cuban music in the United States.
We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65) Trailer (1973)
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.
The Women Outside Trailer (1996)
16 July 1996
They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to be forced into the world's oldest profession.
Mississippi Triangle Trailer (1984)
02 January 1984
This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and Whites live in a complex world of cotton, work, and racial conflict.
Black and Blue Trailer (1987)
10 April 1987
A film by Hugh King and Lamar Williams - a powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force.
Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7) Trailer (1968)
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.
High School Rising (Newsreel #38) Trailer (1969)
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.
Tapestry: Asian Women in America (a.k.a. Tapestry II) Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
Through archival photographs, oral histories and folk songs by Nobuko Miyamoto, this video weaves the history of 200 years of Asian women's experiences.
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
This documentary traces the tangled paths and multifaceted identity of a black Cuban family in the Bronx.
Army (Newsreel #36) Trailer (1969)
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.
Pig Power (Newsreel #23) Trailer (1968)
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".
She Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48) Trailer (1969)
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.
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project Trailer (2008)
01 June 2008
In 2003, Sakia Gunn was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. She was fifteen years old and called herself an Aggressive, a homosexual woman of color who dresses in masculine attire but does not necessarily identify as either lesbian or female-to-male transgender.
Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47) Trailer (1969)
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.
Percussion, Impressions and Reality Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
This is the first comprehensive U.S. film to explore the origins and growth of traditional Puerto Rican music.
My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151) Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
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.
aletheia Trailer (1995)
13 July 1995
An introduction to Kim-Trang's video series on metaphorical and physical blindness, ALETHEIA explores the interconnected issues of cosmetic surgical alteration of the eyelids, technology, language, race and gender.
The Young Puppeteers of Vietnam Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
Art, dance, music and poetry became a vital necessity for the liberated areas of South Vietnam in their daily efforts to survive the bombings and napalming of the Vietnam War.
I Have a Dream Trailer (1963)
06 June 1963
Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech captured by Third World Newreel
