Third World Newsreel Movies
- 1991
Homes Apart: Korea
Homes Apart: Korea01991HD
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...
- 1976
From Spikes to Spindles
From Spikes to Spindles01976HD
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...
- 1980
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner01980HD
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...
- 1995
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde01995HD
The career of iconic and influential poet and writer Audre Lorde is seen up until death.
- 1996
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...
- 2012
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...
- 1978
Mohawk Nation
Mohawk Nation01978HD
In May 1974 a group of Mohawk activists reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh. This abandoned territory was reclaimed...
- 1982
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...
- 1984
Mississippi Triangle
Mississippi Triangle01984HD
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,...
- 1979
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...
- 2008
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...
- 1991
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...
- 1978
Percussion, Impressions and Reality
Percussion, Impressions and Reality01978HD
This is the first comprehensive U.S. film to explore the origins and growth of traditional Puerto Rican music. Interviews with musicians living in...
- 1969
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....
- 1969
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...
- 1969
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....
- 1969
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...
- 1968
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...
- 1971
My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)01971HD
In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful...
- 1968
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...