Newsreel Movies

As a young couple make out in a car, we hear the woman’s stream of consciousness thoughts. She worries about her reputation and whether...

Shot in Vietnam in the summer of 1969, this documentary creates a vivid portrait of the countryside and ways of life during the war.

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It documents draft...

A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as...

The Newsreel collective’s JANIE’S JANIE breaks with the group’s usual format for a more personal approach, following a...

"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film...

The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression.

In April 1968, black and white students rebelled against the university administration, occupying five buildings, including the president's office in...

Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

This film documents one of the most important struggles for education in the sixties. In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and...

A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.

A film about Herman Ferguson, a candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Freedom and Peace ticket in the 1968 election.

Break and Enter documents Operation Move In and the New York squatter’s movement in the 1970s. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and...

In the late '60s, conditions for Puerto Ricans in the US reached the boiling point. Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services,...

Nine months after the riot. Malcolm X Memorial Services held at I.S. 201 in New York, March 1968, and scenes from Newark, March 1968.

In order to raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas eve. To the...

In the late 1960s the University of California at Berkeley began buying up and destroying a nearby area populated by hippies, the poor, and other...

Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville,...

Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front....

Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City...