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Newsreel

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Biography

The Newsreel, most frequently called Newsreel, was an American filmmaking collective founded in New York City in late 1967. In keeping with the radical student/youth, antiwar and Black power movements of the time, the group explicitly described its purpose as using "films and other propaganda in aiding the revolutionary movement."

Known for

Filmography

1973We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)Director
1971Break and Enter (Newsreel #62)Director
1971Earth Belongs to the PeopleDirector
1971The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)Director
1971The Woman's FilmDirector
1970Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35)Director
1969America (Newsreel)Director
1969She Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)Director
1969Army (Newsreel #36)Director
1969Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47)Director
1969High School Rising (Newsreel #38)Director
1969People's Park (Newsreel #33)Director
1969Community Control (Newsreel #24)Director
1968The Columbia Revolt (Newsreel #14)Director
1968The Case Against Lincoln Center (Newsreel #16)Director
1968Jeannette Rankin BrigadeDirector
1968Resist with Noam Chomsky (Newsreel #1)Director
1968Mill-In (Newsreel #6)Director
1968Up Against the Wall, Ms. America (Newsreel #22)Director
1968Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7)Director
1968Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)Director
1968Resist and the New England Resistance (Newsreel #8)Director
1968Riot-Control Weapons (Newsreel #9)Director
1968I.S. 201 and Report from Newark (Newsreel #10)Director
19686th Street Meat Club (Newsreel #11)Director
1968Chicago (Newsreel #12)Director
1968Pig Power (Newsreel #23)Director
1968Herman B. Ferguson, Candidate for U.S. Senate (Newsreel #15)Director
1968Catonsville Nine (Newsreel #18)Director
1968Berkeley Rebellion (Newsreel #20)Director
1967Four Americans (Newsreel #3)Director

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