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...
Break and Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1971, 42 min., BW, US This film captures the militant antecedents to today's housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the ...
Can't Jail the Revolution and Break the Walls Down Kenyatta Tyehimba & Ada Gay Griffin Producer: Third World Newsreel 1991, 60 min., Color, US These two 30 minute videos use footage compiled from over 40 social justice media productions to chronicle the perspectives of political prisoners and of war within the United States. Historical foot...
The Case Against Lincoln Center (Newsreel #17) Newsreel Producer: NEWSREEL 1968, 12 min., BW, US More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony. This film examines the patrons of art" complex (corporation...
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...
Drills of Liberation Juan C Dávila Santiago Producer: Juan C. Dávila Santiago 2021, 121 min., Color, Puerto Rico "Liberation Drills" is the untold story of the Puerto Rican protest wave of 2016-2019, which culminated with the resignation of governor Ricardo Rosselló. In 2016, the US Congress appointed a seven-me...
Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America Eduardo López & Peter Getzels Producer: Wendy Thompson-Marquez 2012, 90 min., Color, US At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, HARVEST OF EMPIRE examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we ...
La Historia de Jonas Luisa Sanchez 1992, 5 min., Color, US Using a collage of urban scenes and voice over narration, this 5 minute video explores the feelings and issues faced by a new Puerto Rican immigrant to New York City in his own words. Available in Sp...
La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx Felix Rodriguez 2005, 50 min., Color, US Art, labor and family blend in this intimate documentary about performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as 'La Bruja'. Born and raised in the Bronx, this daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants ...
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...
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....
Living Along the Fenceline Lina Hoshino & Gwyn Kirk Producer: Lina Hoshino, Gwyn Kirk & Deborah Lee 2012, 65 min., Color, US LIVING ALONG THE FENCELINE tells the stories of seven grassroots women leaders from across the Pacific to Puerto Rico whose communities are affected by the U.S. military presence in their backyards. A...
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...
Musica Gustavo Paredes 1985, 59 min., Color, US This film is an odyssey through the eyes, words and music of individuals who pioneered Afro-Cuban music in the United States. The video offers a rich overview of a wide number of musical styles from ...
Nuyorican Básquet Julio César Torres González & Ricardo Olivero Lora Producer: Freddie Marrero 2017, Color, Puerto Rico Nuyorican Básquet chronicles the dramatic story of the Puerto Rican national basketball team’s participation in the 1979 Pan American Games.
Boasting a totally unique approach to the game, the Puer...
Palante, Siempre Palante! Iris Morales 1996, 48 min., Color, US In the midst of the African American civil rights struggle, protests to end the Vietnam War and the women's movement for equality, Puerto Rican and Latino communities fought for economic and social ju...
Percussion, Impressions and Reality Allan Siegel Producer: Third World Newsreel 1978, 30 min., Color, US 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 York reveal how traditional music is used as a so...
El Pueblo se Levanta (Newsreel #63) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1971, 42 min., BW, US In the late '60s, conditions for Puerto Ricans in the US reached the boiling point. Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Ric...
El Puente Sara Echaniz & Maria Christina Villaseñor Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 2000, 13 min., Color, US A short documentary about the first accredited high school for peace and justice, the El Puente Academy is located in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. A case study of how indivi...
Salty Dog Blues Al Santana & Denise B Santiago 2012, 52 min., Color/BW, US SALTY DOG BLUES features a group of men and women of color who served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1937 – 1989. This nine-year project examines their development as a multi-racial and int...
Samuel Lind's Coastal World Sonia Fritz Producer: Frances Lausell 2006, 24 min., Color, Puerto Rico This documentary captures the colors, music and culture that inspire the art of Samuel Lind, an Afro-Puerto Rican painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Originally from Loiza, Puerto Rico, Lind celebra...
Shaman Llego Frank Perez Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 1992, 17 min., Color, US This documentary profiles the "Shaman Repertory Theatre", a community oriented group based in Spanish Harlem. Through sketches from performances and interviews with troupe members, this piece illustra...
Stand-By Generation, The Juan Carlos Davila 2016, 20 min., Color, Puerto Rico Shot in Puerto Rico, THE STAND-BY GENERATION explores the challenges of young workers seeking secure and stable jobs. The majority of the jobs offered to the new generation of workers in Puerto Rico a...
Teach Our Children Christine Choy & Susan Robeson Producer: Third World Newsreel 1972, 35 min., BW, US This film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film...
Vieques: An Endless Battle Juan C Dávila 2016, 68 min., Color, Puerto Rico For more than sixty years the United States Navy used the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, to test military weaponry and to train soldiers. Decades of opposition from the local community and internatio...
Voces de Fillmore Ariana Allensworth, Teresa Basilio & Regina Eaton Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 2015, 19 min., Color, US This documentary traces the memories and experiences of families living on one block located in South Williamsburg, a Brooklyn neighborhood that is affectionately known by long time residents as South...
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