139X (Newsreel #20) San Francisco Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 25 min., BW, US The film details the efforts of Berkeley students to develop support for a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X...
America a.k.a. Amerika (Newsreel #?) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1969, 30 min., BW, US Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front. Conversations with Vietnam veterans, young teenagers, and ...
The Army Forced Them to Be Violent Tino Saroengallo 2002, 43 min., Color, Indonesia After the fall of President Suharto in May 1998, the student movement in Indonesia had to face the military/police repression in their fight for overall reform. Because of the repression and force th...
Columbia Revolt (Newsreel #14) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1968, 50 min., BW, US In April 1968, black and white students rebelled against the university administration, occupying five buildings, including the president's office in one of the first campus revolts of the Civil Right...
Lessons from Class Struggle Kathleen Foster 1998, 46 min., Color, US "Schools are a disaster zone," declares the young narrator at the beginning of this documentary about public education in New York City during the Mayor Giuliani era (1994-2001). LESSONS FROM CLASS ST...
Making the Impossible Possible Tami Gold & Pam Sporn Producer: Gisely Colón López, Tami Gold & Pam Sporn 2021, 33 min., Color/BW, US MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s. The documentary is a mosaic of voices, film footage...
People's Park (Newsreel #33) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1969, 25 min., BW, US In the late 1960s the University of California at Berkeley began buying up and destroying a nearby area populated by hippies, the poor, and other members of the "counter culture". In retaliation, the ...
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...
