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| - AT PRICES YOU CAN AFFORDCalifornia Newsreel is speeding the migration of library video collections to powerful new digital platforms by making available more than 60 award-winning titles (listed below) at special “collection development” prices – up to 50% OFF. For more details on Newsreels unique In-Perpetuity Streaming Licenses, special discount offers and ordering information click hereTo celebrate the launch of the California Newsreel Digital collection, we are releasing the Marlon Riggs Complete Digital Edition, all seven works by this pioneering black documentarian – the first time any has been licensed for streaming. |
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AT THE RIVER I STAND
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 56 minutes, 1993 |
| During two eventful months in 1968, what began as a local labor dispute between striking African American sanitation workers and the white power structure of Memphis grew into the devastating tragedy of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a national struggle for racial and economic justice. It marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement MORE... |
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BANISHED
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| From 1860 to 1920 hundreds of US counties expelled all of their African American inhabitants. Banished visits three of these still all white towns today. Meanwhile the descendants of those displaced and disinherited seek redress. MORE... |
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BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T
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DVD and Educational Streaming, 87 minutes, 1995
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| Marlon Riggs's final film debates Black identity, white critiques, sexism, patriarchy, homophobia, colorism and cultural nationalism. MORE... |
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BLACK PANTHER / SAN FRANCISCO STATE: ON STRIKE
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 34 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette or DVD, 1969 |
| In interviews, Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panthers, Minister of Information Eldridge Clear explains their appeal to the Black community and Chairman Bobby Seals explains their 10 Point Program. San Francisco State: On Strike recounts how a student strike succeeded in creating the first Ethnic Studies department on a college campus in America. MORE... |
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BLACK THEATER: THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 114 minutes, 1978 |
| This film documents the history of the leading figures, institutions and events that transformed the American stage in the wake of Civil Rights activism. It includes interviews with Ossie Davis, Amiri Baraka, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange, and clips from many landmark plays. MORE... |
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BLACKING UP: HIP-HOP'S REMIX OF RACE AND IDENTITY
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 57 minutes, 2010, |
| Explores tensions surrounding white participation in Hip-Hop. For some, it is an example of cultural progress. For others, it is just another case of cultural appropriation. MORE... |
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BLACKS AND JEWS
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DVD and Educational Streaming, 85 minutes, 1997
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| Scholars and critics probe the history and psychology of victimization shared between Blacks and Jews and their exploitation by the media. MORE... |
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BRICK BY BRICK: A CIVIL RIGHTS STORY
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DVD and Educational Streaming, 53 minutes, 2008
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| Brick by Brick Tracks the landmark case, U.S. vs Yonkers, which challenged housing and educational discrimination in the North and pushed for desegregation. MORE... |
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COLOR ADJUSTMENT
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 88 minutes, 1991 |
| Marlon Riggs' study of how network television absorbed deep-seated racial conflict into the non-threatening formats of primetime television. Clips from Amos 'n' Andy, Good Times, Roots and The Cosby Show among others are intercut with interviews with producers, cultural critics and actors. MORE... |
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