Third World Newsreel Movies

  • 1980
    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

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    The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in t...

    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
  • 1976
    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

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    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 depi...

    From Spikes to Spindles
  • 1991
    Homes Apart: Korea

    Homes Apart: Korea

    Homes Apart: Korea

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    They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families we...

    Homes Apart: Korea
  • 1995
    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

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    The career of iconic and influential poet and writer Audre Lorde is seen up until death.

    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
  • 1996
    The Women Outside

    The Women Outside

    The Women Outside

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    They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to...

    The Women Outside
  • 2012
    Salty Dog Blues

    Salty Dog Blues

    Salty Dog Blues

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    The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

    Salty Dog Blues
  • 1982
    Bittersweet Survival

    Bittersweet Survival

    Bittersweet Survival

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    This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins wit...

    Bittersweet Survival
  • 1978
    Mohawk Nation

    Mohawk Nation

    Mohawk Nation

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    In May 1974 a group of Mohawk activists reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh. This abandoned territory was reclaimed...

    Mohawk Nation
  • 1984
    Mississippi Triangle

    Mississippi Triangle

    Mississippi Triangle

    01984HD

    This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and Whites live in a complex world of cotton, work, an...

    Mississippi Triangle
  • 1979
    People's Firehouse #1

    People's Firehouse #1

    People's Firehouse #1

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    "We're making our point to the whole United States: you can fight the system; and win!" The Polish Americans of Northside, Brooklyn realized their com...

    People's Firehouse #1
  • 2008
    Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project

    Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project

    Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project

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    In 2003, Sakia Gunn was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. She was fifteen years old and called herself an Aggressive, an homo...

    Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
  • 1991
    Tapestry: Asian Women in America (a.k.a. Tapestry II)

    Tapestry: Asian Women in America (a.k.a. Tapestry II)

    Tapestry: Asian Women in America (a.k.a. Tapestry II)

    01991HD

    Through archival photographs, oral histories and folk songs by Nobuko Miyamoto, this video weaves the history of 200 years of Asian women's experience...

    Tapestry: Asian Women in America (a.k.a. Tapestry II)
  • 1978
    Percussion, Impressions and Reality

    Percussion, Impressions and Reality

    Percussion, Impressions and Reality

    01978HD

    This is the first comprehensive U.S. film to explore the origins and growth of traditional Puerto Rican music. Interviews with musicians living in New...

    Percussion, Impressions and Reality
  • 1969
    Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47)

    Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47)

    Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47)

    01969HD

    During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infu...

    Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47)
  • 1969
    High School Rising (Newsreel #38)

    High School Rising (Newsreel #38)

    High School Rising (Newsreel #38)

    01969HD

    An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organi...

    High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
  • 1969
    Army (Newsreel #36)

    Army (Newsreel #36)

    Army (Newsreel #36)

    01969HD

    Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S.military, and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military. Sol...

    Army (Newsreel #36)
  • 1969
    She Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)

    She Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)

    She Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)

    01969HD

    This film documents a play given at the March 28th, 1969 abortion rally by some very angry women. A beauty contestant is primed by her mother, her tea...

    She Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)
  • 1968
    Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7)

    Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7)

    Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7)

    01968HD

    A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups acros...

    Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7)
  • 1971
    My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)

    My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)

    My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)

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    In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful o...

    My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
  • 1968
    Pig Power (Newsreel #23)

    Pig Power (Newsreel #23)

    Pig Power (Newsreel #23)

    01968HD

    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...

    Pig Power (Newsreel #23)