#Bars4Justice a.k.a. Bars4Justice Queen Muhammad Ali & Hakeem Khaaliq Producer: Nation19 Magazine (a Mobile Regime brand) 2015, 9 min., Color, US On the one year anniversary of Mike Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri, a benefit concert in commemoration of his life was organized by Hip-Hop and civil rights activists Common, Talib Kweli, Immorta...
amBUSHed Jared Katsiane 1992, 12 min., BW, US This beautifully shot film depicts the brutal and daily occurance of police violence. AMBUSHED uses experimental narrative techniques to delve into the life and consciousness of two generations of Afr...
Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens Deborah A. Thomas & John L. Jackson, Jr. & Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn Producer: Deborah A. Thomas, John L. Jackson, Jr., Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn, & Junior “Ista J” Manning 2011, 63 min., Color, Jamaica For many around the world, Jamaica conjures up images of pristine beach vacations with a pulsating reggae soundtrack. The country, however, has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world...
Birth of a Nation: 4*29*1992 Matthew McDaniel 1993, 60 min., Color, US After criminal charges were dropped against four Los Angeles police officers accused in the brutal beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles erupted. This video offers a rare view of the rebellion that bega...
Black & White Edgar Garcia Chavez Producer: Edgar Garcia Chavez 2020, 5 min., Color, US This experimental film dissects the Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary’s definitions of the words "Black" and "White" – to prove how, historically, the meanings of both words have been ingrained with ver...
Black and Blue Hugh King & Lamar Williams 1987, 58 min., Color, US A powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia poli...
Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19) San Francisco Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1968, 15 min., BW, US 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 well as an interview with Minister of Information ...
Fixing the World (Arreglando el Mundo) Pablo Arribas 2020, Color, Chile In October 2019, after decades of Pinochet’s dictatorship and more decades of democracy under a Military and Neoliberal Constitution, a popular movement of ordinary Chileans was about to prevail over...
Four Days in May: Kingston 2010 Deanne M. Bell, Deborah A. Thomas & Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn Producer: Deanne M. Bell, Deborah A. Thomas & Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn 2018, 41 min., Color/BW, Jamaica In 2010 Jamaican military and police forces declared a state of emergency in West Kingston to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke—who had been ordered for extradition to the U.S. At least 75 civilians ...
From Spikes to Spindles Christine Choy Producer: Third World Newsreel 1976, 46 min., Color, US This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join...
The Haight a.k.a. The Streets Belong to the People (Newsreel #21) San Francisco Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 6 min., BW, US The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression. Made by San Francisco Newsreel....
Latino Poets Speakout Renata Gangemi & Ruben Gonzalez Producer: Third World Newsreel 2005, 10 min., Color, US Three shorts featuring performances by some of New York City's vanguard Latino poets:
KILLKILLKILL by Jesus Papoleto Melendez (5 Min)
GOD BLESS AMERICA by Mariposa (2 min), and
TAMALES IN JA...
The Nation Erupts Black Planet Productions Producer: Deep Dish TV, Black Planet Productions 1992, 60 min., Color, US Focusing on nationwide responses in the wake of the Rodney King verdict. Grassroots producers across the country reflect on the media coverage of the resulting L.A. uprising and its aftermath. Communi...
Pig Power (Newsreel #23) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 6 min., BW, US As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder"....
Race Against Prime Time David Shulman 1985, 60 min., Color, US An award winning documentary about TV news and racial conflict in Miami.
In 1980, Arthur McDuffie, an African American community worker was brutally kicked, beaten and clubbed to death by Miami po...
Riot-Control Weapons (Newsreel #9) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 6 min., BW, US A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s....
State of Emergency: Inside the LAPD Julia Meltzer & Elizabeth Canner 1993, 28 min., Color, US An investigative documentary on police brutality, this video looks at the LA Police Department following the beating of Rodney King. Containing hard-hitting footage of police violence, the tape also ...
Student Movement in Indonesia: 15 Years Later Tino Saroengallo 2013, 93 min., Color, Indonesia In May 1998, the student movement in Indonesia, a popular movement denouncing the collapse of the Indonesian economy and demanding the end of President Suharto's authoritarian regime, accomplished the...
The Throwaways Bhawin Suchak & Ira McKinley Producer: Bhawin Suchak & Ira McKinley, Executive Producer: Sam Pollard 2014, 62 min., Color, US THE THROWAWAYS is a personal exploration of the devastating impact of police brutality and mass incarceration on the black community told through the eyes of formerly incarcerated activist Ira McKinle...
Tunisian Women: We Will Stand Up Hajer Ben Nasr 2013, 56 min., Color, Tunisia On December 18, 2010 Tunisians of all ages took the streets of Tunis to demand better living conditions and the end of President Ben Ali's repressive dictatorship, starting what would become the 2011 ...
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