Berkeley in the sixties
Description
Six years in the making and with a cast of thousands, Berkeley in the Sixties recaptures the exhilaration and turmoil of the unprecedented student protests that shaped a generation and changed the course of America. Many consider it to be the best filmic treatment of the 1960s yet made. This Academy Award-nominated documentary interweaves the memories of 15 former student leaders, who grapple with the meaning of their actions. Their recollections are interwoven with footage culled from thousands of historical clips and hundreds of interviews. Ronald Reagan, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mario Savio, Huey Newton, Allen Ginsburg, and the music of Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and the Grateful Dead all bring that tumultuous decade back to life. Its reflective and insightful analysis of the era - from the HUAC hearings and civil rights sit-ins at the beginning of the decade through the Free Speech Movement, the anti-war protests, the growth of the counter-culture, the founding of the Black Panther Party and the stirrings of the Women's Movement - confronts every viewer with the questions the 1960s raised, which remain largely unanswered.
Runtime
118 min
Series
Subjects
Contributor
Geography
Genre
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
Similar Films
Tony Brown's journal. Is race a disadvantage?
Sleep and the College Student
Will blacks fit in?
Malcolm X's death. Other voices
Jackie Robinson. Excerpts from civil rights rally
Immigrant from America
Watatu
The new black leaders with an accent
Say brother. Another conversation with the next generation
The green brick road
Did history miss Emmett Till?
PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour. Vernon Jordon: 'Vernon can read' (Nov. 26, 2001). Conversation
Miles of smiles, years of struggle
Say brother. Are we the people?