Newsreel Films Receive More Awards

Unnatural Causes won the TV & Radio Journalism Health Care Award presented by the National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM)on June 15. Made in L.A. has won the coveted Sidney Hillman Prize honoring work promoting social and economic justice, and is joined by runner-up Unnatural Causes. In more great news, Banished, Traces of the Trade, and Unnatural Causes took three of the six Henry Hampton Awards given by the Council on Foundations on May 5.

The Library of African Cinema

California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema was launched in 1981 with 8 titles from 5 different countries to provide film resources to educators and build an appreciation for African cinema. The collection has since grown to more than 70 titles from 25 countries - making it North America's largest collection of African films!  In an effort to make these films even more widely available, we are now offering this collection, including classics by internationally renowned masters Ousmane Sembene (Faat Kine) and Djibril Diop Mambety (La petite vendeuse de Soleil), at the greatly reduced rate of $24.95 per DVD.

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

Who has the authority to define a culture? Is there "objective" scholarship and, if so, how does it become politicized? These questions are examined in, Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, a compelling new film on the life and career of Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored the seminal book, "The Myth of the Negro Past".

UNNATURAL CAUSES - Changing How Americans Think About Health

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? investigates the root causes of our alarming class and racial inequities in health for the first time on film. The prize-winning, four-hour series sifts through the evidence suggesting there's much more to our health than bad habits, health care, or unlucky genes.

Check out our new collection on HEALTH & SOCIAL JUSTICE for a complete listing of all our films related to global health inequities.

New Racial Justice DVDs

Zora Neale Hurston : A luminous biography of the path-breaking author and anthropologist.
Traces of the Trade: Confronting the moral and economic legacy of the slave trade on the North.
Scarred Justice: The hidden story of the 1968 police killings of black college civil rights protesters.
Tulia, Texas: Has the "war on drugs" become a war on due process waged against African Americans?
See all our "African American Perspectives" DVDs

RACE-The Power of an Illusion

What is this thing we call 'race'? Where did the idea come from? What are the patterns of human variation? And if race isn't biological, what is it? How do our social institutions 'make' race? RACE - The Power of an Illusion is the series so many are talking about that compels viewers to scrutinize some of their most fundamental beliefs.

Making Sense of Globalization

This acclaimed set of new documentaries illuminates the dark side of globalization, where labor is exploited, the environment is destroyed, and even human health is often sacrificed in pursuit of higher profits. In Children of the Amazon, Brazilian Filmmaker Denise Zmekhol travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart.
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