139X (Newsreel #22) 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...
Apollo Kids Mike Torres & Third World Newsreel Workshop Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 2000, 5 min., Color, US One morning, Gio misses the #6 train which too frequently bypasses his Spanish Harlem stop. For Gio, one missed train means public humiliation by his teacher, suspension from school, and harassment b...
B.E.S. (Bangla East Side) Sarita Khurana & Fariba Alam 2004, 45 min., Color, US B.E.S. (Bangla East Side) is a documentary portrait of four Bangladeshi teenagers growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City. Initially started as an after-school workshop at a local high sch...
Beyond the Bricks: A New Era of Education Derek Koen Producer: Ouida Washington 2010, 31 min., Color, US BEYOND THE BRICKS follows African‐ American students Shaquiel Ingram and Erick Graham as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system. Fifteen year‐old Shaquiel is a bright studen...
Childcare: People's Liberation (Newsreel #56) Newsreel 1970, 20 min., BW, US The film shows how community run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other...
Community Control (Newsreel #24) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1969, 38 min., BW, US This film documents one of the most important struggles for education in the sixties. In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three N...
Dreams Inside and Out Sylvie Thouard 1990, 52 min., Color, US The Family, a repertory theater company composed of former inmates and actors, and born in the aftermath of the 1971 Attica uprising, is well-known for Miguel Piñero's play SHORT EYES, winner of the B...
Finding D-QU: The Lonely Struggle of California's only Tribal College Chris Newman Producer: Chris Newman 2010, 26 min., Color, US In 2005, D-Q University, California’s only tribal college, was shut down after a 35-year struggle. Since then, the school’s board of trustees, past students, and community members have tried to reopen...
Fresh Seeds in The Big Apple Allan Siegel & Maureen Sherlock Producer: Third World Newsreel 1976, 25 min., Color, US Made in cooperation with the parents and workers of two publicly funded daycare centers in Manhattan and Brooklyn, this historical Third World Newsreel production -- FRESH SEEDS IN THE BIG APPLE -- as...
From Harlem to Harvard Four Square Productions Producer: Four Square Productions 1982, 30 min., Color, US An excellent discussion film for college bound students, this thoughtful documentary captures the alienation, prejudice and insecurity that often confront African American students at predominantly wh...
High School Rising (Newsreel #38) San Francisco Newsreel 15 min., BW, US 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 organize....
Knowledge Reigns Supreme Art Jones 1991, 8 min., Color, US Using the words and music of rapper KRS-1, this video short questions the current wave of multiculturalism in the educational system. It interrogates the myths of societal homogeneity, and assumed cul...
Leaving Bakul Bagan Sandeep Ray 1994, 45 min., Color This moving documentary follows the filmmaker's cousin's imminent departure from India to pursue studies in the U.S. Torn between familial and national loyalties and her desire to travel and experienc...
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...
Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1970, 11 min., BW, US When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves....
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...
No Time to Lose Allan Siegel & Patricia Benoit 1988, 28 min., Color, US Average New Yorkers describe their childhood experiences as "carefree", and "lots of fun and games". But 40% of all Black children and 50% of all Hispanic children in New York City live below the nat...
The People United Alonzo Speight 1985, 60 min., Color, US Boston, 1978: It was an intense period of racial conflict over school bussing and escalating incidents of police brutality in the predominantly Black section of Roxbury. In the wake of growing racial ...
R.O.T.C. (Newsreel #34) Newsreel 20 min., BW, US An anti-ROTC film with data demonstrating university complicity with the military, what that military is used for and why the supposedly neutral universities want to keep ROTC on campus....
San Francisco State: On Strike a.k.a. San Francisco State Sit In (Newsreel #26) San Francisco Newsreel 1969, 25 min., BW, US A documentary of the now famous San Francisco State strike of 1968-69. This film shows the role the tracking system played in determining the quality of education provided to children of working-clas...
Los Siete de la Raza (Newsreel #39) San Francisco Newsreel 30 min., BW, US A film about the oppression of the Latino community, living in the Mission district of San Francisco. It deals specifically with the case of the seven brothers (Los Siete) who have been accused, tried...
Sirionó CEFREC/CAIB Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2010, 56 min., Color, Bolivia In the years leading to the historic 1990 March for Indigenous Land and Dignity, the Sirionó community of Ibiato resists the imposition of a Eurocentric educational system that devalues their way of l...
To Be Me: Tony Quon Pat Lau & Don Miller Producer: Visual Communications 1973, 10 min., Color, US This award-winning short film follows Tony, an active ten-year-old Chinese immigrant as he describes adjusting to an American school. Tony describes his first impressions of "strange new classrooms", ...
Whatever It Takes Christopher Wong 2011, 92 min., Color, US WHATEVER IT TAKES chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the very first year of the Bronx Center for Science & Mathematics, an innovative public high school in New York City.
At the Bronx Center ...
Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future Jayne Cortez 1999, 52 min., Color, US Yari Yari -- Black Women Writers and the Future: An International Conference on Literature by Women of African Descent was held at New York University in October 1997. Yari Yari means "the future" in...
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