The 1960s and 1970s (and Their Aftermath)
General and Miscellaneous
Political and Social Activism (Student Movements, Anti-war, etc.)
Right-wing Political Reaction
Civil Rights and Ethnic/Racicial Activism
Gay and Lesbian Activism
The Presidency
The Cold War
Popular Culture/The Arts
Anti-youth and Anti-drug Propaganda and Educational films: See Propaganda videography
Hippies, Yippies, Youth Culture, Counterculture
The Movies Take on the 60s and 70s
Vietnamese War: Documentaries. See Peace & Conflict: Vietnam
Vietnamese War: Movies SEE MRC War Movies videography
The 1960's: Hold-outs. throwbacks, and casualties
- Peace & Conflict Studies (for documentaries on the war in Viet Nam)
The Black Panther Party
The 1950's
Movies of the 1960's
The Free Speech Movement (includes online audiorecordings of FSM events)
African American/African Diaspora Studies
Popular Culture
[cold war propaganda; Vietnam war propaganda, etc.]
General and Miscellaneous
- Arguing the World
- Traces the lives of four of the 20th century's leading thinkers, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Irving Howe and Irving Kristol. They have been disagreeing with a vengeance since they studied together at New York City College in the 1930s. This film traces their early idealistic days, their controversial role in the McCarthy era, their battle with the New Left in the sixties, and their vastly differing political views today. 1997. 109 min. Video/C 5541
- The Artists' Revolution: 10 Days in Prague.
- In November, 1989 a group of artists in Prague successfully spearheaded the overthrow of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in the nonviolent "velvet revolution"...a revolution fought through images, words and spirit. This film is the inside story of that rebellion as told through interviews with the activists and citizens of Prague. 30 min. Video/C 4571
- The Ballad of Greenwich Village: Culture and Counter-culture
- The artists, rebels, and bohemians who came to New York's Greenwich Village over many decades changed the face of American culture through their art and politics. This film portrays the important political and social movements that began in the Village: the first interracial jazz club, the earliest Socialist newspapers from before World War I, the Stonewall Rebellion. This unique history includes anecdotes from many famous writers, musicians and performers who got their start in the Village. Interweaves past and present, with 16mm footage, archival photographs, Hollywood movies, cartoons, informative interviews and scenes of contemporary village life. Accompanied by a lively soundtrack that ranges from ragtime to bebop to folk music, the film celebrates what was America's first bohemia. Produced and directed by Karen Kramer. 2005. 70 min. DVD 6989
- Counter Culture Films.
- Vol 1. Brink of disaster ( 1972, 29 min.) -- Chiefs (1968, 20 min.) -- Coffee house rendezvous / The Coffee Institute (1969, 26 min.) -- Greenwich Village Sunday (aka. Village Sunday) / Stewart Wilensky ; narrator, Jean Shepherd (1960, 13 min.) -- Social seminar: changing (1971, 28 min.) -- Tragedy or hope? / presented by the National Education Program ; a Jerry Fairbanks production (1972, 24 min).
Cast (Tragedy or hope?): Ed Nelson, Gary Crabbe. (Greenwich Village Sunday): Larry Jaffe, Ted Joans.
Brink of disaster: Brink of disaster: A fantasy story about a student and Vietnam veteran who defends a university library against a night attack by radicals bent on destroying its collections. Initially in league with the "radicals" he decides to reject their cause after his patriotic ancestors return to haunt him and a history professor explains he's become an unwitting dupe of a communist conspiracy to undermine American society. Reissued in the same year in a revised version under the title: Tragedy or hope?
Chiefs: Director Richard Leacock's documentation of the 1968 Police Chiefs Convention held in Hawaii where attention was focused on the means and weapons of crowd control in reaction to the youth, anti-war and other political movements whose protests were sweeping the country at that time, fortified with speeches denouncing these movements and shoring up morale in support of their own actions against them. Coffee house rendezvous: The Coffee Institute gives its self-interested take on how coffee houses served as engines of social revolution -- sort of -- during the 1960s. Greenwich Village Sunday: An entertaining film filled with sound effects, music and colorful sights of Greenwich Village on a Sunday in 1960. The circle is filled with people and there are dozens of places where one can hear good jazz, listen to poetry, have a cup of espresso or browse book stalls. Social seminar: Changing: A documentary film produced by the National Institute of Mental Health, investigating how the 60s youth struggled to find an identity in a world of contradictory roles, morals and values with special attention placed on deconstructing stereotypes such as hippie, hardhat, square, etc. Puts the drug question in perspective as it relates to adults and the total society. Tragedy or hope? Revised version of the film "Brink of disaster" reissued in the same year and included on this DVD. DVD 8567
Vol 2. San Francisco Good Times ( 1977, 58 min.) -- The seasons change (1968, 45 min.)
San Francisco Good Times: As the Vietnam war dragged on and Richard Nixon was elected to his first term as President, a group of people in San Francisco began publishing an "underground" newspaper called the San Francisco Good Times in the belief that out of the ferment of dissent a new community based on new ways of living and cooperation was taking shape. The paper was to be the voice of this community and a motive force in its creation. This film is a chronicle of people who worked on the paper and events they lived through and covered. The people who worked together to produce the paper went on to form a commune. In November 1972 the Good Times commune stopped publishing the newspaper. Highlights include a Black Panther demonstration in support of Huey Newton; stills of public nudity and marijuana smoking; an interview with Bill Graham; outtake from the song "Sweet Marijuana"; Pete Townsend of "The Who" interview; the "People's Park" land squatting experiment that ended in armed confrontation; herbiculture; astrological column written by The Berkeley Astrology Guild; performance outtakes from The Floating Lotus Opera Company; interview with Timothy Leary; the formation of the Good Times commune ; San Francisco street life & happenings; members of Good Times arrested and put in prison; and more. Seasons change: A film detailing the truth about what a federal court judge ruled was "a police riot" in the city of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Includes accounts of perjured testimony of policeman regarding innocent arrested citizens; harrassment of delegates by policeman; racially motivated police brutality; accounts by Rennie Davis, leader of the National Mobilization Committee; an account by poet Allen Ginsberg; an account by Tom Hayden, leader of the Students For A Democratic Society; acts of random and unprovoked violence by the police in bars, hotels and upon cripples; accounts by a speechwriter and aide to Senator McCarthy; CBS news coverage outtakes including convention footage, the roughing-up of Dan Rather on the convention floor during a broadcast, anchoring and interviews by Walter Cronkite and more; an account by comedian and political activist Dick Gregory; police beating of newsmen covering the convention; an account by British Parliament member Anna Kerr who was an innocent bystander who was brutalized, arrested and maced before TV cameras; various accounts by Mayor Daley; the violent assaults upon demonstrators in Lincoln Park and in front of the convention center; and more. DVD 8568
View The Seasons Change online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4MacVol 3. The Hippie temptation ( 1967, col., 50 min.) / CBS News-- The homosexuals (1966, b&w, 44 min.) / CBS Reports -- Boys beware (ca. 1961, b&w, 10 min.) / Sid Davis Productions [in conjunction with] The Inglewood Police Department.
Hippie temptation: A CBS News presentation that manages a balancing act between a sober critical analysis of the idealistic and sometime naive youth revolution centered in Haight-Asbury and a cynical and culturally bigoted dismissal of the values of this subculture that challenged this very same cynicism and bigotry. Contains period film footage of life in the "Haight," the geographic location most credited with the genesis of the psychedelic movement, some dualistically troubling footage of drug abuse and psychiatric treatment, and a special focus on the band whose home was considered to be the "city hall" of the subculture, The Grateful Dead, who not only give eloquent voice to the values of this new society but who also evince their principles with a free performance at Golden Gate Park.
The homosexuals: A CBS Reports program that underscores the difference between modern (1966) sexual morals and those of the dominant culture. Mike Wallace attempts to give even-handed treatment to a subject very much taboo at the time by concluding that homosexuality is most probably a disease, mainly a male phenomenon, involving those incapable of maintaining deep and long lasting relationships. Gore Vidal makes an appearance and sounds a modern tone in the depths of this 40-year old stopped time piece, but his insights and observations are cut into pieces amidst much broader coverage of insistent anti-homosexual psychologists on the one hand and shadowy interviews with male homosexuals. A media history landmark produced in the same New York City that three years later saw the Stonewall riots that began the modern era of gay power activism.
Boys beware: A film produced in the 1960's warning children against homosexuals, claiming that they are pedophiles preying on young school children. A police officer explains the many techniques homosexuals (sexual predators) may use on children such as praise, companionship, money, presents and becoming over personal to win over a child's trust. DVD 8569
- Culture Counter Culture
- Contents: Coffee house rendezvous / The Coffee Institute (1969, 26 min.) -- Greenwich Village Sunday (aka. Village Sunday) / Stewart Wilensky ; narrator, Jean Shepherd (1960, 13 min.) -- Tragedy or hope? / presented by the National Education Program ; a Jerry Fairbanks production (1972, 24 min).
Coffee house rendezvous: The Coffee Institute gives its self-interested take on how coffee houses served as engines of social revolution -- sort of -- during the 1960s. Greenwich Village Sunday: An entertaining film filled with sound effects, music and colorful sights of Greenwich Village on a Sunday in 1960. The circle is filled with people and there are dozens of places where one can hear good jazz, listen to poetry, have a cup of espresso or browse book stalls. Tragedy or hope? A fantasy story about a student and Vietnam veteran who defends a university library against a night attack by radicals bent on destroying its collections. Initially in league with the "radicals" he decides to reject their cause after his patriotic ancestors return to haunt him and a history professor explains he's become an unwitting dupe of a communist conspiracy to undermine American society. Reissued in the same year in a revised version under the title: Brink of disaster [also available online] DVD 2658
- Dawn of the Eye: The Powers That Be, 1960-1975.
- In the 1960s, television had become the dominant source of news in North America, and proved to be instrumental in revolutionizing the democratic process by showing the forces of protest and political opposition. It is said that the civil rights movement and anti-war movements could not have succeeded if it were not for television. Includes a look at failed government efforts to control television news. DVD 4530; vhs Video/C 5945
- Dominoes.
- A portrait of the 1960's using documentary film footage and rock music from the period. Focuses on a succession of tableaus, conveying the director's view that one thing led to another. Presented as an artist's impressions, not to be construed as strictly sequential. 60 min. Video/C 2125
- The Fabulous Sixties.
- Reviews the events, personalities, cultural and social trends, and business and sports achievements responsible for making the 1960's a decade of sharp contrasts. Peter Jennings, narrator. Originally broadcast as a television series in 1970. 550 min. total. DVD 7877; also on vhs Video/C 1065-1066 10 tapes
Disc 1: 1960: Be a man -- sell out: Presidential election, Kennedy vs. Nixon -- African independence and the Congo -- 1961: Victory has a hundred fathers ... but defeat is an orphan: Bay of pigs invasion -- Civil rights Freedom Riders. -- 1962: Morality and brinkmanship: The Pill -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Death of Marilyn Monroe --- John Glenn orbits the earth -- Thalidomide babies .
Disc 2: 1963: End of a thousand days: Civil Rights March on Washington -- Surgeon General's cigarette warning -- Death of John F. Kennedy -- Hugh Heffner and the Playboy Club -- George Wallace views on school integration. -- 1964: From Liverpool with love: The Beatles invade America -- Presidential campaign: Johnson vs. Goldwater -- Khruschev deposed -- Gulf on Tonkin resolution -- Civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi -- Klu Klux Klan -- Muhammad Ali -- Robert Kennedy -- 1965: Commitment or cop-out: LSD -- March on Selma -- Murder of Malcolm X -- Riots in Watts -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Death of Winston Churchill.
Disc 3: 1966: Life, liberty and the pursuit of violence : Gun control --The Warren Report -- Car safety (Ralph Nader) -- Rock music -- Farmworker protests (C. Chavez) -- Peace march (James Meredith) -- Draft Board Demonstrations (Joan Baez) -- The Red Guard in China -- Floods in Florence -- 1967: Love in the streets: Hippies in Haight-Ashbury -- Expo 67 -- The Six Day War in the Middle East -- Vietnam War protests -- The Soviet Union's 50th Anniversary -- The March on the Pentagon.
Disc 4: 1968: Up against the wall: The Presidential Campaign: Nixon vs. Humphrey -- The death of Robert Kennedy -- The Chicago Democratic Convention -- Death of Martin Luther King Jr. -- Jackie Kennedy marries Ari Onassis. -- 1969: Eagle has landed: Woodstock -- Man Lands on the Moon -- Super Bowl-Jets win -- World Series-Mets win -- Earth day.
- Focus on 1960-1964, The Kennedy Years.
- Looks at the events of the years 1960-64, such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the civil war in Vietnam, civil rights, John Glenn's space flight, etc.,) and tells of their significance in American history. 58 min. Video/C 1006
- Focus on 1965-1969, The Angry Years.
- Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and scientific achievements of the late sixties. 58 min. Video/C 1007
- Le Fond de l'Air est Rouge (A Grin Without a Cat)
- Chris Marker's epic film essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. This sweeping, global contemplation of a defining decade's political history is divided into two parts, each part woven together to describe what Marker has called "scenes of the Third World War." Contents: Pt. 1. Fragile hands = Les mains fragiles: From Vietnam to Che's death; May 1968 and all that. -- Pt. 2. Severed hands = Les mains coupees: From the Prague Spring to the Common Program of Government in France; From Chile to -- to what? 1978 (restored and re-actualized by Marker in 1993). 180 min. Video/C 8313
- I Can Hear It Now: The Sixties [Sound Recording]
- Narrated by Walter Cronkite. Narrative, principally with excerpts from political speeches and reporters' accounts of historical events; includes excerpts from songs by performers such as Tony Bennett, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan ; narrated by Walter Cronkite. 90 different news reports, speeches and commentaries from the decade of the nineteen sixties. Partial contents: Prologue and John F. Kennedy inaugural, Jan. 20, 1961 through Cuban Missile Crisis -- Richard M. Nixon concedes defeat California election through assassination and four dark days of Kennedy funeral, Nov. 25, 1963 -- Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to joint session of Congress, Nov. 27, 1963 through report from Village of Cam Ne (Morley Safer) Aug. 5, 1965 -- Great power blackout of 1965 through Robert Kennedy eulogy given by Edward Kennedy at St. Patrick's, June 8, 1968 -- Republican and Democratic Conventions 1968 through flight of Apollo 11 first moon landing July 20/21, 1969 -- Nixon greets returning astronauts through Epilogue. Sound/D 192
- John & Yoko: The Bed-in
- Unable to follow up on the Amsterdam bed-in in the United States, John Lennon and Yoko Ono chose Montreal and invited the press to come to them. In John's words, "expending the least energy to maximum effect," they campaigned for world peace from a bed at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel for a week starting on May 26, 1969. Contains the classic live bedroom recording of "Give peace a chance." Also features "Instant karma," "Remember love," "Who has seen the wind," and the acoustic version of "Because.". 74 min. Video/C MM355
- Le Joli mai (The Lovely Month of May)
- Directors, Chris Marker et Pierre L'Homme. A series of interviews with ordinary people in the streets of France speaking about their lives and feelings while living in France in May of 1962, the year the Algerian War came to an end. 1963. 119 min. Video/C 999:2111
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database - Justice is a Constant Struggle
- Narrator: Studs Terkel. Documents the key roles played by members of the National Lawyers' Guild in helping attain and maintain civil rights and civil liberties over the past five decades. Covers the group's opposition to HUAC and the McCarthy hearings and its work on behalf of members of the civil rights, antiwar, labor and sanctuary movements. Produced, directed, and edited by Abby Ginzberg. 1987. 28 min. Video/C MM544
- KPFA On The Air
- In 1949, America's first listener-supported community radio station, KPFA, began broadcasting from Berkeley, Calif. The station quickly became a living testament to free speech and cultural diversity -- a vital community of the air that often found itself embroiled in conflict. This film reviews KPFA's passionate 50-year history, including its founding by pacifists and poets, through alternative news coverage of the McCarthy hearings, peace issues, race relations, nuclear disarmanent, nuclear power, student protests, the Black Panther Movement, and the Vietnam War, to the present day challenges that confront this ongoing experiment in democratic media. 2000. 56 min. Video/C 7063
- Making Sense of the Sixties. 6 parts, 58 min. each.
- Part 1, Seeds of the Sixties Focuses on one of the most important seeds of rebellion: institutionalized prejudice that kept American blacks in subservience and poverty, preventing their children from receiving the education that could help them gain equality. It also shows how television brought home this fact to Northern whites. DVD 1805 [preservation copy]; also VHS Video/C 1953:1
Part 2, We Can Change the World. Chronicles the years 1960-1964, when the civil rights movement and John F. Kennedy inspired idealism in college students. The program explores the impact of the Cuban missile crisis, the assasination of John F. Kennedy, and the 1963 March on Washington. DVD 1806 [preservation copy]; also VHS Video/C 1953:2
Part 3, Breaking Boundaries, testing limits. Depicts the sixties' youth rebellion and the counterculture, when millions of young people brushed aside every social rule they had learned and substituted tenets of their own. Chronicles the media's role in the development and impact of the youth rebellion and society's response to it. DVD 1807 [preservation copy]; also VHS Video/C 1953:3
Part 4, In a Dark Time. Focuses on 1968. It follows the escalating Vietnam War, the anti-war movement's explosive growth, and the riots and rebellions in almost all of America's cities. It ends with the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. DVD 1808 [preservation copy]; also VHS Video/C 1953:4
Part 5,Picking up the Pieces. Discusses how and why more extreme splinter groups like the Black Panthers came to be, as well as two new movements: the environmental movement and the women's movement. Finally, it recreates the national mood at the end of the decade when the Vietnam vets came home, when hundreds of Black Panthers were arrested or killed, when Richard Nixon was forced to resign, and when the country is held hostage by OPEC. DVD 1809 [preservation copy]; also VHS Video/C 1953:5
Part 6, Legacies of the Sixties Discusses the issues of the sixties from today's perspective and assesses the era's role in making America what it is in the nineties, while we still face many of the same issues. DVD 1810 [preservation copy]; also VHS Video/C 1953:6
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Leonard, John. "Making Sense of the Sixties." (television program reviews) New York v24, n3 (Jan 21, 1991):68 (2 pages).
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Zoglin, Richard. "Making Sense of the Sixties." (television program reviews) Time v137, n3 (Jan 21, 1991):70.
- McLuhan On McLuhanism
- Marshall McLuhan discusses his theories of mass communication and fields questions from a panel of university professors and film critics. Participants: Host: Eric Larrabee. Lecturer: Marshall McLuhan. Panel: Erik Barnouw, Robert K. Merton, Richard Schickel. A videocassette release of a 1966 segment of the television program Sunday Showcase. 1966. 89 min. Video/C 4693
- Prague Spring
- In 1968 Alexander Dubcek's attempt to liberalize Communist rule in Czechoslovakia and to create "socialism with a human face" resulted in Soviet tanks in the streets of Prague. This program presents both the political detente behind Brezhnev's position and the dissent that was silenced within the Warsaw Pact alliance. Extensive archival footage and contemporary interviews provide insights that reveal the dissent within the Eastern Bloc countries in the 1960's. 29 min. Video/C 6192
- The Rage Within and The Road to the Sixties (David Halberstam's The Fifties, vol. 5)
- "The Rage Within" shows how America in the fifties is finally forced to examine issues of racial discrimination through the murder of Emmet Till, the rise of athletes like Bill Russell and Willie Mays, school desegregation, the Montgomery bus strike, and leadership by Martin Luther King, Jr. "The Road to the Sixties" shows American involvement with fast cars, fast food, the space race, the rise of Fidel Castro in Cuba and a rising restlessness as the country hurtles toward the next decade. 50 min. Video/C 5383
- Red Spring, The Sixties.(The Cold War series)
- In the Soviet bloc, communist rule stifles ambition and achievement. Soviet defense expenditure cripples economic growth. The young lust for totems of America's youth culture--blue jeans and rock-n-roll. In Czechoslovakia, Dubcek attempts limited reform, but in 1968, Soviet force crushes the Prague Spring. 1998. 47 min. Video/C 5739
- The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation
- Traces the events of the Sixties, a decade of change, experimentation and hope that transformed an entire nation. This in-depth documentary features revealing interviews with the prominent figures of the era who lived and sometimes influenced events of the powerful decade. Narrator, Paul Herlinger ; interviews with Henry Kissinger, Jesse Jackson, Arlo Guthrie, Barbara Ehrenriech, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden, Norman Mailer, Robert McNamara, Ed Meese, Bobby Seale. Directed and produced by David Davis and Stephen Talbot. PBS, 2005. 120 min. DVD 4442
- Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
- Tells the story of the censorship battles of this groundbreaking comedy television program that became a hot bed of controversy, igniting laughter and social consciousness across a nation. Broadcast on CBS televison from 1967 until it was cancelled in 1969, the beloved hosts pioneered a turning point in American television history. Written & directed by Maureen Muldaur. 2002. 99 min. DVD 4175
- Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-aid Talk Show
- Selected segments from the Tomorrow Show featuring interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead. May 7, 1981: The Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey -- August 6, 1979: Tom Snyder's interview with Tom Wolfe -- October 14, 1980: Tom Snyder's interview with Tom Wolfe -- August 9, 1981: Tom Snyder's interview with Dr. Timothy Leary. Originally broadcast on The tomorrow show and Tomorrow coast to coast on NBC between 1979 and 1981. 90 min. DVD 6589
- Universal Newsreels. Vol. 12: 1960
- Russia, 5/50/60 -- Spy story of the year -- New Magellan: Triton circles world submerged -- Powers case: Ike states policy spies and open skies -- Summit crisis: Mr. K. in ugly mood over U-2 incident -- Down from summit: Mr. K. kills conference, Big 4 departs for home -- Florida, 5/23/60 -- U-2 at UN: Reds now charge U.S. menaces peace -- Open sky plan: Ike offers UN U.S. photo planes -- UN spy debate: Reds bugged American Embassy Lodge claims -- Cataclysm: Volcano, tidal waves, devastate Pacific Area -- Whites flee: Newly independent Congo in upheaval -- Missile milestone: First Polaris firing by submerged U-Boats -- 25 years ago, 5/19/60 -- RB-47 debate: Lodge debunks Red spy-flight charges -- Republican Convention highlights 7/25/60. March of events in Congo crisis -- Space triumph: Discoverer capsule recovered from orbit -- U-2 spy trial: Ike hits Powers' case exploitation by Reds -- Space race: AF snares satellite capsule in mid-air -- Mr. K. and Castro: top Reds and allies get chill greeting -- Mexico, 9/19/60 -- Ike at UN proposes new world disarmament program -- 25 years ago, 9/22/60 -- History at UN: World leaders set New York a-whirl -- Spotlight of history on the UN -- Satchmo swings in Congo -- Khrushchev threatens Dag and UN -- Florida, 10/06/60 -- Invasion scare: Castro masses troops, claims U.S. aggression -- Kennedy elected -- Nuclear Navy: first Polaris a-sub sails on ocean patrol -- Algeria, 11/17/60 -- Tiros II Weatherman satellite in orbit around Earth -- Lumumba seized: followers threaten New Congo upheaval -- Strategy talks: Kennedy confers with his Congress leaders -- Space progress: "Man-in-space" capsule recovery successful -- News highlights of 1960. DVD 6615
- Universal Newsreels. Vol. 13: 1961-1963
- U.S. breaks relations with Cuba, 1/05/61 -- Inauguration: Kennedy sworn in -- NATO war games: Germany is stage for big winter maneuvers -- Peace Corps: Kennedy outlines global program -- Kasavubu hailed: Congo Federation plan target of controversy -- Laos crisis: Kennedy-Gromyko voice peace hopes -- Anglo-U.S. amity: U.S.-British pledge united front -- Eichmann trial -- Cosmos pioneer: Soviets orbit man in space -- Cuba invaded: foes of Castro open offensive -- First pictures: Soviets hail space hero -- Reds celebrate May Day -- As world watched: Spaceman hailed after U.S. triumph -- Cosmonaut: Russian orbits globe 17 times -- Berlin, 1961 -- World shocked: Reds threaten H-bomb tests -- Formosa, 1961 -- Civil planes grounded in defense alert -- France, 1961 -- 50 Megatons: U.S. protests new Red test -- Chimp into space, 1961. New Mexico, 1961 -- Space triumph: Glenn flight thrills world -- Uneasy peace: Algeria tense under cease-fire -- India, 1962 -- A day in history: Telstar brings world closer -- X-15 space record: Plane flown to 59-mile mark -- Kennedy on Telstar: Europe sees news conference -- First Lady at play : she joins Glenn at water skiiing -- Income tax cut: Kennedy hopes to spur economy -- The Wall, 1962 -- Red threat: President orders Cuban blockade -- The Cuban Crisis -- Crisis eases: Wary U.S. awaits missile removal -- Missile bases: Castro balks at U.N. team -- President tours: Kennedy inspects nuclear bases -- Suspense story: National Press Club hears Hitchcock -- Space movie: camera records missile in flight -- Space tour: Kennedy inspects missile center -- Reds free Professor: home after 16 days in Soviet prison. DVD 6616
- Universal Newsreels. Vol. 14: 1964-1967
- N.Y. World's Fair, 1964 -- Olympics end: U.S. teams win medal honors -- Japan, 1964 -- Khruschev resigns -- Olympics: US. dominates Tokyo games -- 2,000 MPH jet: Johnson reveals US. super plane -- Olympics: U.S. widens Tokyo lead -- Fashions, 1964 -- Bernard Baruch adviser to presidents is dead -- Marines in action: Dominican rescue, Vietnam Offensive -- Johnson on Vietnam: vows to fight on until Reds parley -- [Johnson] inauguration highlights, 1965 -- LBJ hears Graham -- Twins in Paris -- Vietnam action: Enterprise planes support troops -- Showdown in Vietnam -- Dominican truce: cease-fire brings calm to Island -- Space policeman: Pegasus measures action of meteoroids -- McNamara on Vietnam: new moves counter Red infiltration -- Report on Vietnam, 1965. Moscow, 1965 -- Enterprise in war: nuclear carrier joins 7th Fleet -- Politics and food: U.S. feeds Dominicans, power struggle on -- Dominican revolt, 1965 -- U.N.'s 20th year: world body marks signing of charter -- Missile passes test: Titan 3-C is most powerful known -- Viet sweep: Troops take Cong stronghold -- Airbase shelled: Soviet rockets used in attack -- Vietnam: big enemy force repulsed by GI's -- Seattle, 1967 -- Peace march: thousands oppose Vietnam war, 1967 -- Expo 67: Monument to man opens in Canada -- Loyalty day, New York City -- Protests galore -- Mid-East: Israeli-Egyptian battle erupts, 1967 -- Egypt accepts U.N. cease-fire -- Cease-fire: uneasy truce in Mid-East -- Ant-war demonstrators storm Pentagon -- Inauguration: Thieu sworn in, stresses peace, 1967 -- Wakefield, Mass., 1967 -- England, 1967 -- Lynda [Johnson] and Charles [Robb] marriage takes place in the White House. DVD 6616
- The Video McLuhan
- Written & narrated by Tom Wolfe. Contents: 1. McLuhan videos 1958-1964 (51 min.) -- 2. McLuhan videos 1965-1970 (40 min.) -- 3. McLuhan videos 1972-1979 (43 min.) -- 4. Ohio State Univ. panel 1958 (30 min.) -- 5. Florida St. Univ. lecture 1970 (55 min.) -- 6. York Univ. lecture 1979 (31 min.).
Performers: Gilbert Seldes, Frank Kermode, Tom Snyder, Malcolm Muggeridge, Norman Mailer, Robert Fulford, Tom Brokaw, David Frost, Woody Allen.
Presents the most complete video record of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. Using video footage from the 1940's to the late 1970's, this program traces the development of McLuhan's thinking and takes the viewer through McLuhan's rise to prominence on the world stage. McLuhan discusses and argues his themes in the classroom, on the lecture circuit, on TV talk shows and newsmagazine programs. 6 videocassettes (250 min.) Video/C 4503
- Who Is the American Connection?
- Two former agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration tell of coverups and corruption within the Administration when they worked undercover from the 1960s through 1974. In attempting to stop the narcotics traffic in the U.S. their inside knowledge of the corruption within the Administration ultimately threatened their lives and led to their resignations. 86 min. Video/C 6132
- Young Blood, 1968
- By 1960 almost half the U.S. population was under eighteen years of age. By 1968, the conservative '50s had been overtaken by full-blown social and political revolt. In Europe, students rioted and demonstrated for greater intellectual freedom--and against the rigid values of the parents' generation. This film revisits the Civil Rights Movement, the beginnings of Students for a Democratic Society, the experience of the Vietnam War, student protests in 1968 Paris, anti-war movements, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Weather Underground, the advent of rock and roll, hippies, counter-culture, yippies and anti-nuclear campaigns. 1997. 56 min. Video/c 6439
Political and Social Activism (Student Activism, Anti-War Movements)
- Peace & Conflict Studies: War in Vietnam
Anti-Vietnam War Protests in the San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond (online media archive)
- [Abbot, Helen] Interview with Activist Helen Abbott.
- Interviewer: Harold Adler; interviewees, Tarnel Abbott, Helen Abbott. An interview with Helen Abbott, founder of the Vietnam Day Committee which consisted of students and activists and other members of the Bay Area community opposed to American intervention in Vietnam. Videographer, Harold Adler. 2002. 112 min. Video/C MM503
- The Activist: Hell No, Nobody Goes (Mike Smith and the Oakland 7)
- A Dramatization which examines the philosophies and activities of student draft resisters to the Vietnam War situated on the University of California, Berkeley campus in the 1960's. 198-? 51 min. Video/C 3797
- America, Love It or Leave It
- During the Vietnam War the largest ever exodus of political refugees took place. 125,000 Americans fled to Canada as draft resisters and deserters. Now twenty years later this documentary examines the impact of this migration on both Canada and the United States. Written and directed by Tom Shandel. 1990 57 min. Video/C 8163
- America Against Itself
- Presents interviews recorded in 1968 with students,
delegates, reporters, ministers, etc. who were at the 1968 Democratic Convention, concerning their attitudes towards the convention and riots, police response and political situation. Interspersed with segments of news footage of the Convention and riots. 1968. 45 min. Video/C 9430
- American Revolution 2: Riots to Revolution, Chicago in 1968
- The 1960s was defined by a common effort to fight against injustice. Mike Gray, a Chicago filmmaker, used his camera to document the politics of the streets to produce a gritty but essential documentary charting social turbulences in late 1960's Chicago. Includes footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention protest and riot, a critique of the events by working class African-Americans in Chicago, and attempts by the Black Panther Party to organize poor, southern white youths on the city's north side. Shot in verite style with no script, direct sound, a handheld camera, black-and-white film stock, and natural lighting, the directors' no-frills approach appropriately reflects the raw energy of this upheaval. Special features: "Riots to revolution : Chicago in 1968," a 2007 documentary short by Mike Gray. Directed by Howard Alk; produced by Mike Gray and William R. Cottle. 1969. 75 min. DVD 7489
- Amerika
- Documentary about the escalation and diversity of the anti-Vietnam War protest movement on the homefront. Includes conversations with Vietnam vets, teenagers, and Afro-American militants. Graphically depicts the hightened incidents of mass protest and police repression. Originally produced as a documentary film in 1969 by Newsreel. 33 min. Video/C 5854
- Anti-war Films of the 1960s
- Universal Newsreel: Peace march: thousands oppose Vietnam War (4/18/67, 3 min.) -- Universal Newsreel: Protests galore (5/5/67, 3 min.) -- Universal Newsreel: Anti-war demonstrators storm Pentagon (10/24/67, 2 min.) -- The seasons change (1968, 45 min.) -- Columbia revolt (1969, 49 min.)
Universal Newsreels: Three newsreels showing demonstrations against the Vietnam War in the United States, Spain, Italy, and London with some coverage of the "March on the Pentagon."
Seasons change: Details the events and issues involved in the violent Chicago Police crackdown on anti-war demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Includes interviews with demonstation participants, the Chicago 7 and an official statement of the Youth International Party (Yippies).
Columbia revolt: This documentary of the student protests and riots at Columbia University in 1968, presents the events as they happened from the perspective of the students, from the early stages of what originally began as a demonstration but quickly became an occupation by students of campus facilites, setting off a chain of events that ultimately resulted in a two month long, violent siege. DVD 5960
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - Berkeley in the Sixties.
- Contents: Pt. 1 Confronting the university: the Free Speech Movement-- pt. 2. Confronting America: the anti-war movement (32 min.) -- pt. 3. Confronting history: the counter-culture movement(45 min.). Through interviews with participants and archival footage, presents a history of Berkeley, California in the 1960s. A film by Mark Kitechell. 1990. 117 min. DVD 1460; also VHS Video/C 1761
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- Berkeley People's Park.
- Documentary on the attempt to prevent the Berkeley police from taking Peoples' park away from the people. Dist.: Roz Payne Archives. DVD 4131 (preservation copy); also VHS Video/C 5860
- Berkeley People's Park.
- A documentary giving the history of the People's Park conflict and protests with emphasis on the role played by the University of California in the conflict. San Francisco, CA: KQED Television Station. Filmed on location in Berkeley, California, 1969. DVD 8917(preservation copy); also VHS Video/C 2129
- The Berkeley Rebels
- Narrator: Harry Reasoner (CBS). Mario Savio, Clark Kerr, Sallie Learey, Ron Anastasi,Kate Coleman, Michael Rossman. A unique documentary film presenting the 1964 Free Speech Movement demonstrations and sit-in at the University of California, Berkeley through first person accounts by four students involved in the protests. Includes debates between students withdiffering viewpoints of the movement, debates between faculty and students and an overview of the impersonalacademic experience at the University which fueled the unrest. 1965? 57 min. DVD 7475 (preservation copy); also vhs Video/C 5710
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- Disc 1. -- Professor Staughton Lynd (10:15) -- Professor Aaron Wildavsky (5:15) -- Robert Scheer (5:45) -- Paul Potter (9:45) -- Paul Krassner (4:55) -- Bob Parris (3:55) -- Dr. Benjamin Spock (3:45) -- I.F. Stone (6:20) -- M.S. Arnoni (5:30) -- Disc 2. -- Norman Mailer (14:35) -- Mario Savio (9:15) -- Dick Gregory (7:05) -- Senator Ernest Gruening (10:50) -- Isaac Deutscher (22:40).
Recorded at the Berkeley campus of the University of California by Radio Station KPFA in 1965.
Presents speeches from a 1965 Berkeley teach-in with speakers opposed to American involvement in Vietnam. "Teach-ins" were developed as a form of politico-educational protest in response to a general need for organized dissent and opposition to a course of government policy abroad.
- The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine [SOUND RECORDING]
- Performers: Phil Ochs, Peter La Farge, The Broadside Singers, Pete Seeger, Mark Spoelstra, Jim Page, Malvina Reynolds, Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Freedom Singers, Janis Ian, Len Chandler, El Teatro Campesino, Paul Kaplan, Wes Houston, The New World Singers, Rev. F. D. Kirkpatrick, Jim Collier, Sammy Walker, Peggy Seeger. Broadside was a small underground magazine filled with new songs by artists too radical for the establishment. These songs tell stories rooted in American history from 1962 through 1988 addressing such issues as warfare, nuclear threat, ethnic conflicts, immigrants' sufferings, unequal treatment of women, ecological devastation and social injustice. This extensively annotated 5 CD set includes 89 songs, some never commercially released, extensive notes, graphics from the original Broadside magazine and more. SOUND/D 88
- Bettina Aptheker
- Political activist and feminist, Bettina Aptheker addresses such issues as her unhappy early childhood years, her activities during the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley and her career in political and social advocacy. Speech is followed by questions from the audience. Videographer, Harold Adler. Filmed on November 15, 2006 at Black Oak Books, Berkeley. 93 min. DVD 6609
- Big Stick, 1967-1972
- Intercuts two Charlie Chaplin shorts centering on policemen with newsreel footage of police crowd control and street fighting. Levine questions the social implications of media by presenting this discomforting ragout as a political gesture. A film by Saul Levine. 13 min. Video/C MM1182
- California Since the Sixties: Revolutions and Counterrevolutions. (California Studies Conference. [11th: 1999: University of California, Berkeley]). Videographer: Harold Adler
- Popular Organizing and People's Movements, 2/4/99 Contents: Breaking with union centrism: some thoughts for revitalizing the U.S. labor movement / Peter Olney (23 min.) -- Regional racial formations in political culture / Laura Pulido (25 min.) -- Trends in youth organizing / Julie Brown (10 min.). A panel of political and labor organizers comments on the history and current directions in American labor and political movements with particular reference to minorities and youth. Concludes with questions from the audience. Presented at a conference held on February 4-6, 1999 at the University of California, Berkeley. © UC Regents. 100 min. DVD 8811; vhs Video/C 5973 View this video online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac After Alcatraz: American Indian Uprisings, 2/4/99. American Indian population in the Bay Area / Susan Lobo (11 min.) -- Participation in the "outcast" of Alcatraz / Millie Ketchano, Edward Castillo (30 min.) -- The occupation of Alcatraz Island / Troy Johnson (24 min.) -- The filming of the documentary: The Indian occupation of Alcatraz / John Plutte (26 min.) -- Closing commentary by panel (8 min.) -- Reception honoring Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, 2/4/99 at the Bancroft Library (9 min.). A panel of American Indians comments on their personal experiences in the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the "relocation program" and urban Indians, the preservation of American Indian history through film and other means and the current situation of American Indians in California. 107 min. Video/C 5974
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Angela Davis, Keynote Address, 2/4/99. Angela Davis comments on the social forces that cause so many Afro-Americans to spend time in prison and on the "anti-prison movement" which works for the reform of California prisons by bringing together political activists on the outside with prison inmates. © UC Regents. 89 min. Video/C 5975
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Documenting the Counterrevolution: Photography in the 60's and 70's, 2/5/99. A panel of three photographers from the 60's comments on their experiences. Joe Samburg's photographs focus on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Helen Nestor photographed the Free Speech Movement, the beginning of busing of school children in the South and the origins of the women's movement. Nacio Brown comments on his life as a photographer for the underground press in Berkeley in the 60s. 86 min. Video/C 5976
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac David Harris Lecture, 2/5/99. A lecture by David Harris, journalist, writer, civil system to the Vietnam War. Here he expounds upon his personal experiences in the political turmoil in California and the South during the 1960's. 66 min. Video/C 5977
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Beyond the Boomers, 2/5/99. Contents: Introduction / Louise Nelson (5 min.) -- If you were a member of the 60s: towards a radical historiography / Lauren Coodley (20 min.) -- Is there a generation X? / Eric Rice (19 min.) -- You can't really believe the magazines: prescriptions and reality in the middle class bedroom / Jessica Weiss (21 min.) -- Asian American youth gangs, model minorities and post 60s political poverty / Mike Murashige (22 min.) -- The Quiet after the boom: generation X reconsidered / Tomas Sandoval (18 min.) -- Audience questions (10 min.). A panel of "post-boomers" (often described as cynical and nihilistic) examine the "baby boomer" generation and American culture, politics and social groups as they have been influenced by generational identities. 115 min. Video/C 5978
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Musical Innovators, 2/5/99. Contents: [Political protest songs of the 60s] / Country Joe McDonald (19 min.) -- [The history and development of country music] / Gerald Haslam (22 min.) -- [African-American styles in California music] / (Linda ?) (26 min.) -- [Influence and creation of Latino music and protest music] / Jose Cuellar (43 min.). Four musicians talk about the development of various types of protest music in the sixties and play some of the songs that were created during the era. 120 min. Video/C 5979 View this video online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Readings by Maxine Hong Kingston's Veterans Writing Workshop and Robert Hass, 2/5/99. Contents: Robert Hass (30 min.) -- Boy and the buffalo / Jim Jenko (sp?) (6 min.) -- The hunt / Keith Maker (?) (8 min.) -- Ish / Niki Cashton (?) (7 min.) -- Prologue to Grief denied: a Vietnam widow's story / Pauline Lorentz (?) (9 min.) -- The visit / Lee Swenson (?) (8 min.) -- Muhammad Ali. Live body. One more / Jeremiah Kelvio-Swazaw (?) (6 min.) -- Untitled piece / Katherine Beckwith (?) (6 min.) -- The well by the trail. Ambivalent nature of healing / Ted Sexhauer (?) (9 min.). Poetry readings led off by California poet laureate, Robert Hass, reading from his own works followed by poetry and prose written and presented by members of the Veterans Writing Workshop which was originally developed by Maxine Hong Kingston to provide a literary voice for Vietnam War veterans. 102 min. Video/C 5980
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4MacChallenge of Multiracial Democracy, 2/6/99 Moderator: Carlos Muñoz. Panel: Elizabeth Martinez, Phil Hutchings, Ramona Wilson, Helen Zia, David Bacon.
A panel of Mexican-American, Native American and Asian American leaders, authors and journalists examine, through analyses of minority history, future challenges for American minorities and American democracy in the 21st century. Introduction / Carlos Muñoz (9 min.) -- [Racism in 1960s and political movements] / Elizabeth Martinez (21 min.) -- [Contrasting social movements from the 60s to the 90s] / Phil Hutchings (17 min.) -- [Human values for the 21st century] / Ramona Wilson (20 min.) -- [Asian in America: the perpetual foreigners] / Helen Zia (26 min.) -- [Multiracial democracy and the labor movement] / David Bacon (15 min.) 108 min. Video/C 5983
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Gerald Haslam Lecture, 2/6/99. Author and historian, Gerald Haslam provides reminiscences and perceptions of California and Central Valley culture as it has developed from the 60s to the 90s. 72 min. DVD 8960; vhs Video/C 5982View this video online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - The Camden 28
- Camden, New Jersey, summer, 1971. Protests against the Vietnam war are spreading across America. A group of 28 non-violent activists plan to break into a local draft board office and destroy records in an attempt to strike a blow against the 'system.' But a mole has infiltrated their operation and within hours of beginning their mission they are rounded up and arrested by the FBI, under the personal authority of J. Edgar Hoover. Produced, written and directed by Anthony Giacchino. 2006. 83 min. DVD 8472
- The Catonsville Nine: Investigation of a Flame
- A series of informal interviews with Daniel and Philip Berrigan, John Hogan, Tom Lewis, and Marjorie and Tom Melville-- all members of the Catonsville Nine, a disparate band of Vietnam war protesters who broke the law on May 17, 1968 when they walked into a draft board office In Cantonsville, Maryland, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. Includes archival footage. 2001. 45 min. Video/C 8582
- Charles Garry: Street Fighter in the Courtroom
- A dynamic first-hand biography of the life's work of combative civil rights lawyer and activist, Charles Garry. Focusing on six compelling cases that brought the social and political battles of the street into the courtroom, this documentary relives the drama of the 1960s through archival footage of the events and interviews with journalists, defendants and Charles Garry himself. Contents: HUAC -- The Panthers -- Growing up -- The Chicago Conspiracy Trial -- Murder trial of Bobby Seale -- Stop the draft week -- Los Siete de la Raza. [200-?] 58 min. Video/C 7980
- Chicago 1968 (American Experience)
- Explores the atmosphere surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Insight into factors contributing to events is provided through interviews with writers, politicians, anti-war activists and historians. 57 min. DVD 8813 [preservation copy]; vhs Video/C 4851
- Chicago Convention Challenge
- Using newreel footage taken in the midst of demonstrations against the Vietnam War during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, this film conveys the immediacy of anti-war organizing in meeting rooms, at rallies and in the streets. It is a valuable historical portrait of events that culminated in police riots against the protesters. 18 min. Video/C 5575
- Chicago Riots (CBS News Special Report)
- The catalyst for the Chicago rioting was an incident over black children trying to cool off at a fire hydrant. CBS News presents this special report, produced as the arson and looting raged that summer of 1966. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was in the city trying to restore order, talks at length with Mike Wallace about the underlying causes and the ongoing dialogue with Chicago mayor Richard Daley and his administration. The program offers blow-by-blow coverage of the events as well as commentary from civic and religious leaders, witnesses, and law enforcement officials to provide a contemporary overview of a society on the verge of anarchy. Correspondents: Mike Wallace, Bill Plante. Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on July 15, 1966. 31 min. Video/C 8994
- Columbia Revolt, 1968
- Newsreel footage, with commentary by participants, of the student protests and riots at Columbia University in 1968. 50 min. DVD 3723; included on DVD 5152 and DVD 5960; also vhs Video/C 5853
- Confrontation: An Analysis of the San Francisco State Strike, 1968-69.
- The strike at San Francisco State College is seen as a microcosm of the fragmentation of American cities. Examines the strike as a reflection of the "sickness in American cities". NBC documentary, 1969. 90 min, DVD 8273 [preservation copy]; vhs Video/C 2308
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- An informal interview taped on January 12, 1970 with the Chicago 7, revolving around the trial and the participants' actions in the court room and reasons therefore. Interviewer: Ron G. Davis. Panel: Dave Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Rennie Davis, Lee Weiner. 59 min. DVD 4160 (preservation copy); Video/C 7144
- Conspiracy: the Trial of the Chicago 8
- Swinging billy clubs, Chicago riot police hacked their way through 100 yards of a densely packed crowd of young people outside the 1968 Democratic Convention. The demonstrators had assembled to protest the Vietnam War, but the rally collapsed into a riot of savage violence, bloodied faces and tear gas. When the dust settled, eight men were charged with organizing and inciting the revolt. Their trial was more explosive than the riot. For raising their voices in defiance against a grossly biased court and its violations of their liberty, The Chicago 8 were bound and gagged, both symbolically and literally. Written and directed by Jeremy Kagan. 1987. 117 min. DVD 4144
- David Gilbert: a Lifetime of Struggle
- An interview with David Gilbert, who is among the longest held anti-imperialist political prisoners in the world. He worked against the Vietnam War and for Black civil rights, was a leader in the Columbia University student strike and Students for a Democratic Society, and was a member of the Weather Underground Organization. In 1981 he was convicted for his participation in a Brinks truck robbery to raise funds for the Black Liberation Army. In prison he has continued to work for social justice calling early attention to the AIDS epidemic and working as an advocate for the rights of prisoners. Based on an interview by Sam Green and Bill Siegel. Videotaped in 1998 at Great Meadows Prison, Comstock, N.Y. Freedom Archives, [2002]. 29 min. DVD 6896; vhs Video/C 9867
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - Everyman.
- The boat Everyman was built by peace groups in the San Francisco Bay Area for the purpose of protesting nuclear testing by sailing into Pacific Ocean nuclear test zones. The film covers Everyman's first and only voyage on May 27, 1962 when it sailed twenty miles out to sea, only to be stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard, which arrested the crew and impounded the boat. Protests included sit-in demonstrations at the U.S. Marshal's office, in which Joan Baez took part, singing "We Shall Overcome." The crew was sentenced to 30 days in jail. A film by Harvey Richards. 1962. 21 min.
DVD 4242
- Free Speech Movement
- Free Speech Movement Recordings from the Pacifica Foundation Archives
- Online audiorecordings of interviews, speeches, and other activities of the Berkeley FSM. See Separate listing and information regarding access to these recordings
- General Wastemoreland, Interview, 1998.
- An interview with Vietnam War protestor General Wastemoreland (Tom Dunphy) as he recalls his friendship with General Hershey Bar (Calypso Joe) and their experiences in the 1960's protesting against the Vietnam War in Berkeley, San Francisco and Los Angeles through "guerrilla street theater." Videographer, Harold Adler. 48 min. Video/C 5673
- Generations Apart: A Profile of Dissent (CBS Reports)
- In this 1969 news program, reporter John Laurence takes a look at how the youth of the 60s rejected their parents' political views and cultural values, differing greatly in their opinions toward the role of civil disobedience and violence. Includes interviews with young people ages 17 to 25 and their parents concerning their political and social attitudes. Also presents an interview with San Francisco State University president Dr. S. I. Hayakawa. Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on May 27, 1969. 52 min. Video/C 8999
- Growing up in America.
- Featuring: Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Fred Hampton, Deborah Johnson, Fred Hampton, Jr., William Kunstler, John Sinclair, Don Cox, Timothy Leary. In 1969 Morley Markson made a film that captured the heart and soul of the 1960's and called it Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family. Eighteen years later, Markson tracked down the living legends included in his film to see how their perspective of the Sixties may have changed. Asked to look at the footage of their younger selves, they reflect on how much their lives and the times have changed in 3 decades. 1988. 90 min. Video/C 4972
- Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
- On February 4, 1974, college student Patty Hearst (granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst), was kidnapped from her apartment by a terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The SLA, seeking to foment a violent uprising within America's working class, forced the Hearst family to donate millions of dollars in food to the poor. But two months after her kidnapping, Patty emerged in public as Tania, an armed member of the SLA who helped her captors to rob a bank. Director Robert Stone uses rare and previously unseen archive footage as well as interviews with former SLA members to explain "America's first encounter with modern media-driven political terrorism." Produced and directed by Robert Stone. c2005. 89 min. DVD 4443
- Hot Damn!
- Film contains unique footage of the Bay Area peace movement at a time when the Vietnam War was escalating rapidly. Segments include the Berkeley troop train demonstrations; peace marches from Berkeley to Oakland, ending in massive confrontation with local police; the Oakland Army Induction Center draft protest, draft card burnings, and the sit-ins of 1964-65. 17 min. DVD 4240; also VHS Video/C 2797
- Kent State: The Day the War Came Home
- This program looks back on the reasons for the violent attack on anti-Vietnam-war student demonstrators on the Kent State University campus in 1970. Shows the build-up of the protest against the Vietnam War, especially by the youth of the country and the Black Panthers, and follows the stories of the four students who were killed by National Guardsmen. Includes interviews with former students who witnessed the events including a wounded student-activist, a now paralyzed student, a former National Guardsman and a sociology professor. 2001. 47 min. Video/C 7906
- Last Summer Won't Happen
- Shot in 1968, one year after the summer of love, this is a critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-Vietnam War movement in New York City. The film traces the development of a group of activists on the Lower East side from isolated, alienated individuals to a politically empowered community. Filmed between the protests at the Pentagon and the demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, it includes portraits of Abbie Hoffman, editor Paul Krassner, folksinger Phil Ochs and anarchist Tom "Osha" Neuman. A film by Peter Gessner and Thomas Hurwitz. 58 min. Video/C 9476
- Make Love Not War, The Sixties. (Cold War series)
- Western economies grow and prosper, fueled partly by armaments production. Rejecting their parents' affluence and the Cold War, many of the young protest and rebel. There is racial violence in U.S. inner cities while rock music comes to express the mood of a disenchanted generation. Video/C 5739
- [Mandel, William] Interview with William Mandel.
- Interviewer: Harold Adler. An interview with American political activist William Mandel, author of "Saying no to power." Originally recorded on 5/2/06. 55 min. DVD 5523
- My Dinner with Abbie.
- An interview with the American dissident, Abbie Hoffman, on the eve of his 50th birthday in 1986. 57 min. Video/C 3384
- My Name is Abbie
- A countercultural icon, Hoffman is remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the sixties. In this film, which documents the first interview he gave in 1980 when he decided to reveal his identity after spending seven years in hiding, he traces the evolution of political activism in America. 1981. 30 min. Video/C 5132
- No Game
- Newsreel footage of an October 10, 1967 demonstration for peace against the war in Vietnam. Includes interviews with protesters who refused Selective Service. Originally produced as documentary film in 1968. 17 min. Video/C 5858
- No Greater Cause.
- Film chronicles the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the Bay Area. Footage shows the massive confrontations in Oakland between police and anti-draft protestors in 1967; the rally of 100,000 against the war at Kezar Stadium in April, 1967 including the keynote address by Vietnam veteran, David Duncan. 20 min. DVD 4241; also VHS Video/C 2801
- The New Left
- The New Left sprang from an affluent America torn byracial conflict and dissent over the Vietnam War. This program assesses the course of New Left politics up to 1967 by combining newsreel footage with interviews of leaders across the movement's range, including Tom Hayden, Carl Oglesby, Stokely Carmichael and Fannie Lou Hamer. From Students for a Democratic Society to the Black Panthers; from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Malcolm X, this look at a social and political groundswell provides fascinating insights into the era. Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on September 12, 1967. 55 min. Video/C 8904
- The New Left Note, 1968-1976
- Incisively distills the domestic protest, social revolution, and increasing public disillusionment over a protracted Vietnam War that defined the atmosphere of late 60s American culture. With rapid intercutting, disorienting quick pans and looping, Levine approaches filmmaking as a tool for social change -- a visceral chronicle of creative expression and cultural consciousness. A film by Saul Levine. 32 min. Video/C MM1182
- No More War.
- Film of the speech "No more Hiroshimas" by Dr. Linus Pauling and his wife in McArthur Park, Los Angeles, and a 1961 Los Angeles peace demonstration. 16 min. Video/C 9343
- On Strike! Ethnic Studies, 1969-1999
- A historical presentation of the struggle to create and maintain a Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Includes interviews with participants in the 1969 demonstrations when the program was first established, with the 1999 demonstrators when the funding for the program was threatened and with Ethnic Studies faculty at U.C.B. Directed and produced by Irum Shiekh. 1999. 36 min. DVD 8561; vhs Video/C 6521
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- Director, Paul Schrader. Cast: Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher, Jodi Long. Explores the crime/political/media story of the '70s: the kidnapping and mental torture of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army ... and her subsequent transformation into a gun-wielding revolutionary called Tania. Based on the book "Every secret thing" by Patricia Campbell Hearst with Alvin Moscow. 108 min. 999:3271
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- Operation Correction
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A film by the American Civil Liberties Union produced as a rebuttal to the House Un-American Activities Committee's film "Operation abolition," that was an attempt to characterize as communist inspired, the May, 1960 student and activist demonstrations against the activities of the Committee. 1961. 44 min. DVD 4454; also DVD 8282
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- A documentary giving the history of the People's Park conflict and protests with emphasis on the role played by the University of California in the conflict. Originally produced in the early l970's. 23 min. Video/C 5860
People's Park: The Big Four State Their Cases. [ONLINE AUDIORECORDING]- Debate/discussion on People's park, involving Charles Palmer (former president, Associated Students UCB), Frank Bardecke (People's Park Negotiating Committee), Wallace Johnson (Mayor of Berkeley), and Roger Heyns (Chancellor, UCB). Pacifica Radio Achives/KPFA. 26 May 1969
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- Rebels with a Cause
- Uses archival footage and interviews with activists
involved to trace the history of Students for a Democratic Society through the 1960's. Growing out of student involvement with the black civil rights movement in the South, SDS grew quickly with the escalation of the war in Vietnam. Discusses how the Black Power movement shook the SDS, and the women's movement grew out of it. After 1968, the SDS was thrown into internal conflict with the Weathermen faction and the surveillance of the FBI. Interviewees
talk about the legacy of the SDS for them. 2000. 109 min. DVD 1603
- The Roots of Resistance. Volume 1[Sound Recording]
- Selected highlights from the Freedom Archives featuring contemporary recordings of the voices of political and social activists. Topics include civil
rights and Black liberation, Vietnam war protests, the prison movement, Puerto Rico, Chile, Native American
movements, women's liberation, the International Hotel and other social issues and movements.
Contents: Introduction -- African roots of struggle -- Prison doors -- Vietnam victory -- Puerto Rico independence -- From Alcatraz to Wounded Knee -- Africa and Palestine -- Cuba and Chile -- Que viva La Raza -- Long live the International Hotel! -- The rising of the women is the rising of us all -- We who believe in freedom.
Performers: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Ho Chi Minh, Nelson Mandela, Victor and Joan Jara, Judy Grahn, Ossie Davis, Maya Angelou, Fannie Lou Hamer, Assata Shakur, Amilcar Cabral, Lolita Lebron, Winnie Mandela, Ruchell Magee, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Mario Savio, Bernardine Dohrn, Kathy Boudin, Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark, Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro, Cesar Chavez, June Jordan, Marge Piercy, Meridel LeSueur, Joan Baez, Paul Robeson, Frank Smith, L.D. Barkley, George Jackson, Dennis Banks, Carter Camp, Chris Hani, Fernando Alegria, Reies Tijrina, June Jordan, Sweet Honey in the Rock. 71 min. Sound/D 170
- The Seasons Change.
- A film detailing the truth about what a federal court judge ruled was "a police riot" in the city of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Includes accounts of perjured testimony of policeman regarding innocent arrested citizens; harrassment of delegates by policeman; racially motivated police brutality; accounts by Rennie Davis, leader of the National Mobilization Committee; an account by poet Allen Ginsberg; an account by Tom Hayden, leader of the Students For A Democratic Society; acts of random and unprovoked violence by the police in bars, hotels and upon cripples; accounts by a speechwriter and aide to Senator McCarthy. Also includes an official statement of the Youth International Party (Yippies): Using segments of news footage interspersed with segments of silent films, the 1968 Democratic Convention held in Chicago is presented from the Yippies' point-of-view. Opening frame indicates that the film is the "Official Statement of the Youth International Party." DVD 8568; also DVD 5960; vhs Video/C 2093; Yippie! is also on DVD 5960
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (La sixièeme face du Pentagone)(1967)
- Directed by Chris Marker and Francois Reichenbach. On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together a wide cross-section of liberals, radicals, hippies, and Yippies. Che Guevara had been killed in Bolivia only two weeks previously, and, for many, it was the transition from simply marching against the war, to taking direct action to try to stop the 'American war machine.' From young men burning their draft cards, to the Yippies chanting "Out, demons, out!," to thousands of protestors rushing the steps of the Pentagon itself and some actually getting into the building, this is a remarkable time capsule and reminder of events from forty years ago, 1967-the turning point of opposition to a long and unpopular war. 26 min. DVD 8639
- Student Activism in the 1960's. Part 1
- Sound and silent television news film clips of college student activism in the 1960's. Includes anti-Vietnam war protests at the University of California, Berkeley; student reaction to a speech and press conference by Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, the wife of a political counselor in Vietnam; anti-discrimination picket and shop-in at Lucky supermarkets and student anti-discrimination demonstrations at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1964. 30 min. DVD 7482 [preservation copy]; Video/C 5711
- Student Activism in the 1960's. Part 2
- Sound and silent television news film clips of college student activism in the 1960's. Includes student anti-discrimination demonstrations, sit-in and arrests at a Cadillac dealership in San Francisco, Free Speech Movement rallies in Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley with interview with Nina Spitzer, FSM organizer; FSM rally on November 10, 1964 in response to the Regents vote on disciplinary actions for FSM participants; Joan Baez singing and discussing her attendance at the rally and an interview with Mario Savio commenting on the Regents vote. KRON-TV, 1964. 26 min. DVD 7483 [preservation copy]; Video/C 5712
- Student Activism in the 1960's. Part 3
- Sound and silent television news film clips of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Includes scenes of Dec. 7, 1964 special convocation at the Greek Theater with excerpts from a speech by Professor Robert Scalapino and president Clark Kerr; scenes of Mario Savio being restrained from speaking; Art Goldberg, FSM leader addressing the Greek Theater crowd; Savio addressing the press after the Greek Theater incident; Jack Weinberg addressing the rally after the Regent's vote. Unidentified African American civil rights leader praises student activism at Berkeley and involvement in civil rights movement; anti-communist folksinger; brief interviews with anti-FSM individials. KRON-TV, 1964.21 min. DVD 7484 [preservation copy]; Video/C 5713
- Student Strike, UC Berkeley, 1966 [ONLINE AUDIORECORDING]
- Meeting held in Pauley Ballroom after sit-in and arrests related to blocking of Navy recruiting table outside of the ASUC store. The strike committee along with the audience decided to initiate a formal, all-out strike. This recording is a portion of the six hour deliberations related to this action.
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- Summer '68.
- This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It documents draft resistance organizing, the growth of G.I. coffee houses, the development of alternative media and the problems the movement faced in using mainstream media to broadcast its message. It is also a document of the philosophies, tactics, and problems of the student movement in the crucial year of 1968. 1969. 55 min. Video/C 5576
- Taking Part: Free Speech Movement and the Legacy of Social Protest
- A conference presented on April 13-14, 2001 in conjuction with the completion of the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive Project of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The conference that revisits the social context and lasting legacy of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at UCB. Part 1: Freedom Summer, the Free Speech Movement and the emerging Left. The panel of four former FSM activists examine the relationship between the various social movements of the 60s as they intersected with the Free Speech Movement including the emerging civil rights movement, the beginnings of Black power and the new emerging political left. Concludes with questions from the audience. Panel: Robert P. Moses, Battina Aptheker, Jack Weinberg, Steve Weissman. 2001. 160 min. Video/C 7917 Part 2: The Vietnamization of the Berkeley Campus. The panel of speakers examine the conjuncture between the Free Speech Movement and the escalating nationwide protest against the Vietnam War. Concludes with questions from the audience. Panel: Marilyn Milligan (as read by Lynn Hollander Savio), Orville Schell, Peter Dale Scott, Leon Wofsy. 2001. 102 min. Video/C 7918 Part 3: Movements in Education Reform and Experimentation. The panel of speakers address the question: What impact did the Free Speech Movement have on educational reform and experimental educational programs? Concludes with questions from the audience. Panel: Charles P. Henry, Nigel Young, Carlos Munoz. 2001. 89 min. Video/C 7919 Part 4: The New Left: Language and Politics. The panel of former FSM activists address the impact of the emerging new left political idealogies of the 1960s and its interconnections with the Free Speech Movement. Concludes with questions from the audience. Panel: Wini Breines, Rebecca Klatch, Jeff Lustig, Sheldon Wolin. 2001. 99 min. Video/C 7920 Part 5: The Contested Field of Free Speech. In this final segment two noted scholars of civil liberties survey the progress, or lack of progress, for free speech in the United States in the past ten years. Concludes with questions from the audience. Speakers: Nadine Strossen, Richard Delgado. 2001. 90 min. Video/C 7921
- Thunder on the Right
- Minutemen militia patrol for Communists in Missouri; Eddie Rickenbacker calls for a statue of Sen. Joseph McCarthy; the John Birch Society rails against the income tax. This program reports on a broad array of resurgent American conservatism in 1963, including segments on the civil rights movement, Vietnam and the persistent fear of communism. Contains interviews with H. L. Hunt, Sen. Barry Goldwater, and Fred Schwarz, head of the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade. Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on February 22, 1962. 55 min. Video/C 8903
- The Thursday Club
- A documentary of historical footage interspersed with interviews of retired Oakland police officers who battled anti-war demonstrators and Black Panthers in the 1960s. Portraying a generation that lived through the Depression and World War II before they became policemen, this film covers the Vietnam War protests that spilled from Berkeley into Oakland, the racial integration of the Oakland Police Department, and the ambivalence of black officers during the department's war with the Black Panthers. Produced and directed by George Paul Csicsery. 2005. 60 min. DVD 4100
- The Torch is Passed.
- SLATE is a student political party which was active at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 50's and early 60's. Former members, gathered for a 25th anniversary reunion, reflect on the party's values and actions. 30 min. Video/C 2276
- Twenty Years After: The Third World Strike.
- Original footage from the Third world strike and a discussion on what happened, why it happened, and what has happened since, with Carlos Munoz, Jr., Anthony Garcia, Octavio Romano V, Troy Duster. DVD 1188; also VHS Video/C 1403View this video online: Archival footage of the Strike
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - Two Days in October: A Moment That Divided a Nation, a War that Continues to Haunt Us
- Examines the critical events that took place in the fall of 1967, from the ambush of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that led to skepticism of whether the Vietnamese conflict was winnable, to the first violent anti-war demonstration on a campus in Wisconsin. Producer/director, Robert Kenner. Based on the book "They marched into sunlight" by David Maraniss. 2005. 90 min. DVD 4654
- Underground
- Directed by Emile De Antonio. The film introduces each member of the Weathermen Underground Organization in a group discussion/interview made on May 1st, 1975 in a secret location. The era of the 60's and 70's is vividly bought to life by interweaving the stories of the "Weathermen's " personal political development with the significant events and personalities of the two decades. 88 min. Video/C 3219
- Iordanova, Dina. "Kusturica's 'Underground' (1995: Historical Allegory or Propaganda?" Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television v19, n1 (March, 1999):69.
- U.C. Student Demonstrations, 1964
- Panel 1: Adrian Kragen, David Louisell, Scott Keech, Martin Roysher...[et al.]. (26 min.); Panel 2: Willie Brown, Albert Lipawsky, Marshall Krause ...[et al.] Taped response by Edmund G. Brown. Moderator: Cap Weinberger (26 min.). Pt. 3. Audience questions (21 min.).
Part 1 is a panel discussion between journalists, professors, and students concerning how the press has handled and interpretated the controversies surrounding the Free Speech Movement demonstrations at the University of California, Berkeley. In Part 2 a panel of professors, attorneys, students and state officials examine the role of the State of California as it responds to the issue. Concludes with panel members fielding questions from the audience. Originally shown on the KQED Television Program, Profile Bay Area. Video/C 5509
- Unpinned. (1965-1970). (The Century: America's Time; 11.)
- Riots and protests intensified in the U.S. as the war in Vietnam dragged on, with anti-war and civil rights activists seeking violent ways to agitate for peace and equality. This program presents the unrelenting rage that divided the nation during those perilous years, as the Watts race riots, the assissinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and the Kent State killings made headline news. 45 min. Video/C 6364
- The U.S. vs John Lennon
- The story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved Beatle to an outspoken artist and activist to iconic inspiration for peace, and how, in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in American history, Lennon stood his ground, refused to be silenced and courageously won his battle with the U.S. Government. Special features: "Becoming John Lennon" documentary footage; "Dissent vs. disloyalty" documentary footage; "The 'Two virgins' album cover" documentary footage; Yoko Ono Lennon's "Letter to the parole board" documentary footage ; "Power to the people" documentary footage; "Then and now" featurette; Walter Cronkite meets The Beatles; "Sometime in New York" documentary footage; "Imagine" documentary footage; One to One benefit concert; theatrical trailer. Written, produced and directed by David Leaf & John Scheinfeld. 2006. 96 min. DVD 7263
- We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: A History of the Berkeley Student Movement.
- History of the Berkeley student movement through photographs and narration. Script written by Robby Cohen, Michael Laslett, Kerry Nelson.
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - The Weather Underground.
- This remarkable documentary traces the rise and fall of the Weathermen, a group of radical students, who, outaged by the Vietnam War and racism, tried to overthrow the U.S. government in the 1970's, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history. Here former members speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. A documentary by Sam Green and Bill Siegel. A production of the Free History Project, produced in association with KQED Public Television/San Francisco and ITVS. Special features: Filmmaker commentary from Sam Green ; commentary from original Weathermen Bernadine Dohrn & Bill Ayers ; original Weathermen audio communiques; exclusive bonus film about former Weatherman "David Gilbert : a lifetime of struggle" ; excerpts from Emile de Antonio's "Underground filmmaker biographies", featuring members of "The Weather Underground" ; interactive menus ; scene selection.2004. 93 min. DVD 3066; vhs Video/C MM1165
- The Whole World is Watching: Weatherman '69..
- Group of 1989 Marxist revolutionaries who model themselves after the Weathermen plot revolution and hang out. Various members of the group sit around smoking joints, breaking record albums, and talking about Marxism, sex, politics, and sexual politics. 121 min. Video/C 3933
- Women for Peace.
- Covers the founding of the organization, Women For Peace, and many of the first peace demonstrations that it sponsored. Film covers 1961 and 1962 anti-nuclear demonstrations in California and Nevada and other activities of the group. 24 min. Video/C 2793
- Work in Progress: Berkeley in the Sixties.
- Newsreel clips of the Free Speech Movement and demonstrations, anti-draft demonstrations against the Vietnam War, and riots during the People's Park controversy at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s. Interviews with Mario Savio, Jack Weinberg, Jackie Goldberg, John Gage, Susan Griffin, Barbara Arnold (Jentri), Bobby Seale, Frank Bardacke. Contents: Free Speech Movement, Fall 1964 (7 min.) -- Stop the draft movement, October 1967 (7 min.) -- Peoples' Park, May 1969 (7 min.). Shown in connection with the opening of the Free Speech Movement Cafe, Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley on February 3, 2000. 21 min. Video/C 6838
Right-wing Political Reaction
- Anarchy U.S.A.
- Film originally produced in 1966. This radical anti-African American, anti-communist, anti-civil rights propaganda documentary was made shortly after the Watts riots. Employing newsreel footage this film traces the methods used by communists to take over China, Cuba and Algeria, and then attempts to demonstrate that the same tactics have been used by the U.S. civil rights movement. 78 min. Video/C 2962
- Committee on Un-American Activities
- This documentary presents 1930s footage of House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Chairman Martin Dies (D) of Texas attacking "subversives" in labor unions; the Hollywood Witch Hunts; the Cold War blacklistings; and the 1960 San Francisco hearings. The film contains an analysis of how the HUAC subpoened the newsfilms of the City Hall protests from TV stations KRON & KPIX and used federal facilities to edit them to produce the film "Operation Abolition," attacking its critics as disloyal. Among the HUAC's critics shown: Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, civil rights leader Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, Congressmen James Roosevelt & Phillip Burton, and Frank Wilkinson. 1963. 45 min. Video/C 9345
- Committee on Un-American Activities.
- A documentary presentation of the origins, purposes, and practices of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 45 min. Video/C 65
- Committee on Un-American Activities
- The first film by a private citizen which criticizes a US government committee, includes 1930s footage of House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Chairman Martin Dies (D) of Texas attacking "subversives" in labor unions; the Hollywood Witch Hunts; the Cold War blacklistings; and the 1960 San Francisco hearings. The film contains an analysis of how the HUAC subpoened the newsfilms of the City Hall protests from TV stations KRON & KPIX and used federal facilities to edit them into "Operation Abolition. Among the HUAC's critics shown: Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, civil rights leader Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, Congressmen James Roosevelt & Phillip Burton, and Frank Wilkinson. Freedom of Information Act files also reveal that the HUAC, in violation of the First Amendment, investigated Robert Carl Cohen for making this film. Archival sound reproductions supplied by KPFA-Radio (Berkekely, Cal.); archival images supplied by KRON-TV and KPIX-TV (San Francisco, Cal.). 45 min. DVD 8373 (digitally restored); vhs Video/C 65
- Communists on Campus
- An American propaganda documentary created "to inform and impress on American citizens the true nature and the true magnitude of those forces that are working within our nation for its overthrow...and the destruction of our educational system." Film covers the July 1969 California Revolutionary Conference and other demonstrations, warning against the activities of Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, student protestors and Vietnam War demonstrators as they promote a "socialist/communist overthrow of the U.S. government," taking as their mentor Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Featuring Mike Klonsky, Bernadine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Rap Brown, Bobby Seale, David Hilliard, Herbert Aptheker, Tom Hayden, Mario Savio, Gus Hall, Bettina Aptheker, Eldridge Cleaver, Archie Brown, Jeff Jones, Marie W. Johnson, Roberta Alexander, Carol Henry, Ora Williams, Marlene Dixon, Ray "Masai" Hewitt, Don Cox, Huey P. Newton, William Kunstler, Charles Garry, Noel Ignatin, Roscoe Proctor, Kenny Horsten, Bob Avakian, Andy Stapp, Angela Davis, Donald Kalish, Sergei Pavlov. (1970s) 55 min. Video/C 6927View this video online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - Operation Abolition
- This infamous red scare film was put together from television newsreel footage of the May 1960 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in San Francisco, its attendant student protests, and the riotous police action (fire hoses used on City Hall protesters) that followed. Operation Abolition was widely screened (one source put the total viewership at 8 million) and helped put Berkeley and its activist culture on the map, eventually becoming a cult movie. Scenes include footage of Harry Bridges, Archie Brown, Douglas Wachter, William Mandell, University of California, Berkeley students and excepts from the Daily Californian. A film using the same footage, but a different narration called Operation Correction was made by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California to counter Operation Abolition. DVD 8657
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - Operation Correction
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A film by the American Civil Liberties Union produced as a rebuttal to the House Un-American Activities Committee's film "Operation abolition," that was an attempt to characterize as communist inspired, the May, 1960 student and activist demonstrations against the activities of the Committee. 1961. 44 min. DVD 4454; also DVD 8282
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- After Alcatraz: American Indian Uprisings, 2/4/99.(California Since the 60's Conference)
- American Indian population in the Bay Area / Susan Lobo (11 min.) -- Participation in the "outcast" of Alcatraz / Millie Ketchano, Edward Castillo (30 min.) -- The occupation of Alcatraz Island / Troy Johnson (24 min.) -- The filming of the documentary: The Indian occupation of Alcatraz / John Plutte (26 min.) -- Closing commentary by panel (8 min.) -- Reception honoring Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, 2/4/99 at the Bancroft Library (9 min.). A panel of American Indians comments on their personal experiences in the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the "relocation program" and urban Indians, the preservation of American Indian history through film and other means and the current situation of American Indians in California. Videographer: Harold Adler. 107 min. Video/C 5974
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - Alcatraz Is Not an Island
- This program tells the story of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay which began in 1969 and lasted 19 months. The documentary interweaves archival footage and contemporary commentary to examine how this historic event altered American government Indian policy and programs, and how it forever changed the way Native Americans viewed themselves, their culture and their sovereign rights. c2002. 58 min. Video/C 9394
- Alcatraz, 30th Anniversary Celebration
- Introduction / Adam Fortunate Eagle -- Pomo Dancers and singers / Pat Lincoln, Doug Duncan, Lanny Pinola -- Opening commentary / Millie Ketchesawno, Richard Moves Camp -- Honor song for Alcatraz warriors / All Nations Northern Drum -- Guest speakers and speeches by veterans of the Alcatraz occupation / Dennis Banks, Dennis Jennings, Arigon Starr, John Whitefox, Tolo, Shashine Little Feather, Charlie Hill, Floyd Red Crow Westerman -- Music by Ulali.
Coverage of a 30th anniversary celebration of the occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indian political activists, with commentary by participants who took part in the occupation in 1969 and current American Indian activists. Held on Alcatraz Island, California on October 23, 1999. Videographer, Harold Adler. 153 min. Video/C 6743
- All Power to the People!: the Black Panther Party and Beyond
- This powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the mid-1960's. Government documents, rare news clips, interviews with ex-activists and FBI/CIA agents define the bloody conflict between political dissent and repressive government authority in the U.S. during the period of the 60s and the 70s. 1996. 115 min. Video/C 6523
- Anarchy U.S.A.
- Film originally produced in 1966. This radical anti-African American, anti-communist, anti-civil rights propaganda documentary was made shortly after the Watts riots. Employing newsreel footage this film traces the methods used by communists to take over China, Cuba and Algeria, and then attempts to demonstrate that the same tactics have been used by the U.S. civil rights movement. 78 min. Video/C 2962
- Angela Davis, Keynote Address, 2/4/99: California Since the Sixties Symposium, UC Berkeley.
- Angela Davis comments on the social forces that cause so many Afro-Americans to spend time in prison and on the "anti-prison movement" which works for the reform of California prisons by bringing together political activists on the outside with prison inmates. © UC Regents. 89 min. Video/C 5975
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- See Separate listing of resources in the Media Resources Center related to the Black Panther Party and various individuals in the Part
- Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.
- A four part series chronicling various aspects of the struggles for equal rights by Mexican Americans. Episode 1 examines the events at Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, that sparked a national movement for social justice. It focuses on the 1967 struggle by Mexican Americans to regain ownership of New Mexico lands guaranteed them by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and then visits the landmark Denver Youth Conference in 1969. The program concludes with the Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War, held in East Los Angeles in 1970...an event that turned into a tragic riot resulting in the death of renowned journalist Ruben Salazar. 57 min. Video/C 4308
Goodman, Walter. "Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement."
(television program reviews) New York Times v145 (Fri, April 12, 1996):B8(N), D18(L), col 4, 8 col in.
- Chicago Riots.
- The catalyst for the Chicago rioting was an incident over black children trying to cool off at a fire hydrant. CBS News presents this special report, produced as the arson and looting raged that summer of 1966. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was in the city trying to restore order, talks at length with Mike Wallace about the underlying causes and the ongoing dialogue with Chicago mayor Richard Daley and his administration. The program offers blow-by-blow coverage of the events as well as commentary from civic and religious leaders, witnesses, and law enforcement officials to provide a contemporary overview of a society on the verge of anarchy. Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on July 15, 1966. 31 min. Video/C 8994
- A Dream Deferred.
- A film originally produced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for its southern voter registration drive in 1964, the year of the Mississippi summer. It contains interviews with activists, voter registrants and leaders, including the now famous speech by Fannie Lou Hamer. 33 min. Video/C 2799
- [Davis, Angela] A Conversation with Angela Davis.
- Interviewed by Rev. Cecil Williams. Davis speaks in jail during her incarceration in 1970 on charges of being an accomplice to conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide in the Black Panther seige at the Marin County Hall of Justice (August 7, 1970). DVD 7496 [preservation copy]; vhs Video/C 2214View this video online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - A Day to Remember: August 28,1963.
- Focuses on the civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C. led by Martin Luther King. 29 min. Video/C 581
- Decision in the Streets.
- Covers the tumultuous beginnings of the Bay Area civil rights and peace movements from 1960 to 1965. Segments include 1960's anti-House Un-American Activities Committee demonstrations; Hands-Off-Cuba demonstrations in 1962 and 1963; the 1963 march protesting the Birmingham church bombings; mass arrests of protesters sitting in at the Sheraton Palace Hotel over racist hiring practices; the 1964 anti-Goldwater Republican convention protests; the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, California and more. 35 min. Video/C 2795
- El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
- Focuses on the qualities and characteristics that predicated Malcolm X's rise as a leader and spokesman of the Black America Movement. 56 min. Video/C 998
- Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years.
- A comprehensive history of the people, the stories, the events, and the issues of the civil rights struggle in America. Presents behind-the-scenes insights into such major events as the Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the march from Selma to Montgomery. 6 parts. Video/C 971:1-6. (60 min ea).
- Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads.
- 8 parts. Video/C 1652:1-8 (60 min. ea.)
- Filibuster: Birth Struggle of a Law (CBS Reports)
- Examines the stormy passage of Civil Rights Bill H.R. 7152 through the House of Representatives. Filmed in 1964, it begins with a report on the controversial bill's history, from its introduction by John F. Kennedy to the eve of its debate on the Senate Floor. Following that report, Eric Sevareid moderates as Senators Hubert Humphrey and Strom Thurmon engage in a live television debate on the bill's merits. Film footage of John and Robert Kennedy, Justice Dept. officials Nicholas Katzenbach and Burke Marshall, President Lyndon Johnson and the racial clashes of the early 60s captures the tensions that surrounded this most comprehensive civil righs law since Reconstruction. Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on March 18, 1964. 55 min. Video/C 8909
- Freedom March.
- This film features the San Francisco civil rights protest march of May 26, 1963, sponsored by Bay Area black churches and the labor movement in the shocked aftermath of the Birmingham, Alabama bombing of a black church, killing five children. The film shows the march down Market Street and the rally with speakers at the Civic Center. 10 min. Video/C 2798
- Freedom on My Mind.
- Produced and directed by Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford. Documentary of the civil rights movement and the events surrounding the Mississippi Voter Registration Project of the early 1960's. Combines archival footage with contemporary interviews. 110 min. Video/C 3566
- In Remembrance of Martin.
- A documentary honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes archival footage, the "I Have a Dream" speech, and a synopsis of key civil rights decisions of the 1950's and 1960's. 60 min. Video/C 2761
- July '64
- In the summer of 1964, a three-night riot erupted in two predominantly black neighborhoods in downtown Rochester, New York--the culmination of decades of poverty, joblessness and racial discrimination and a significant event in the Civil Rights era. Using archival footage and interviews with those who were present, the film explores the genesis and outcome of those three nights. Director, Carvin Eison. 2004. 54 min. DVD 6627
- Kennedy v. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close.
- A film originally made in 1963 of President John F. Kennedy and the governor of Alabama, George Wallace, during the confrontation over desegregation of Alabama schools. Re-edited to include thoughts of U.S. Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach. 60 min. Video/C 2876
- King: A Filmed Record, Montgomery to Memphis.
- A chronicle of the struggle for racial equality and justice from 1955 to 1968 through newsreel and television coverage. Video/C 986 (104 min)
- Malcolm X (1992)
- Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman. Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader. 201 min. Video/C 999:769
- Malcolm X: Militant Black Leader.
- Adapted from the book of the same title by Jack Rummel. 30 min. Video/C 2575
- Malcolm X: Nationalist or Humanist?
- This film includes newsreel footage of several of his most important speeches, as well as events leading up to and following his assassination. An on-camera interview with Malcom's widow, Betty Shabazz, filmed shortly after her husband's death, is the moving backdrop for this brief but powerful documentary. 14 min.Video/C 2791
- Martin Luther King.
- In an interview with Gerild Priestland, Martin Luther King expresses his feelings, hopes, philosophy and religious convictions. 30 min. Video/C 9
- On the Front Lines: Television and African-American Issues.
- Panelists explore issues from the 1950s and 1960s and how television news has interpreted various racial issues and such divisive events as the Rodney King verdict and the confirmation of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. Presented at the Museum of Television and Radio, Los Angeles, California on November 7, 2001. 93 min. Video/C 8496
- On Strike! Ethnic Studies, 1969-1999
- A historical presentation of the struggle to create and maintain a Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Includes interviews with participants in the 1969 demonstrations when the program was first established, with the 1999 demonstrators when the funding for the program was threatened and with Ethnic Studies faculty at U.C.B. Directed and produced by Irum Shiekh. 1999. 36 min. DVD 8561; vhs Video/C 6521
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UC Berkeley users only - Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - The Other Face of Dixie (CBS Reports)
- Correspondent Harry Reasoner visits four cities in this 1962 program to examine progress in school integration: Clinton, Tennessee; Norfolk, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Little Rock, Arkansas. Along with Atlanta governor S. Ernest Vandiver and journalists Ralph McGill and Lenoir Chambers, Reasoner talks with students at Little Rock Central High School, their school board president and Arkansas governor Orval Faubus.Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on October 24, 1962. 54 min. Video/C 8908
- Poisoned Dreams. (1960-1964). (The Century: America's Time; 10)
- Beset by both international and domestic pressures, America during the Camelot years was swiftly approaching a political-cultural meltdown. This program documents U.S.-Soviet conflicts of interest in Cuba and Vietnam and the growing polarization at home between civil rights activists and segregationist hard-liners, which resulted in the Birmingham riots and the freedom march on Washington, D.C. 43 min. Video/C 6363
- Red Power: Thirty Years of American Indian Activism in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Contents: Opening ceremonies / Angela A. Gonzales, Robert A. Corrigan, Gerald West -- Keynote address / LaNada Boyer -- Panel: Student activism: looking back, looking forward / Moderator: Deron Marquez. Panel members: Dennis Acosta, Luis Kemnitzer, Mickey Gemmill, Steve Talbot -- Panel: The Urban Indian community: past, present and future / Moderator: Reyna Ramirez. Panel members: Marilyn St. Germaine, Susan Lobo, Shirley Guevara, Mary Jean Robertson -- Panel: Alcatraz Island: reclaiming Indian land / Moderator: Craig Glassner. Panel members: Millie Ketchesawno, Troy Johnson, Gerald R. Hill, Jonathan Lucero -- Closing remarks / Michelle Maas, Elizabeth Parent.
A symposium on American Indian activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Panel discussions focus on the social, cultural and political events that led to the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the pivotal role of the urban American Indian community in the Bay Area, and the work of American Indian student activists in creating the Department of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. Held in the Nob Hill Room, Seven Hills Conference Center, San Francisco State University on November 19, 1999. 7 hrs., 15 min.Video/C 6744
- Requiem-- 29.
- This riveting film documents the chilling inhuman treatment of 50,000 Chicanos by police and the death of L.A. Times journalist Ruben Salazar at the Chicano National Moratorium in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970. Film includes footage of the mass march, police tactics used to disorg
