50 Under $50

From September through November 1st California Newsreel is offering 50 classic titles for under $50 from the largest and most distinguished collection of African American documentaries in the world for under $50 - 75% off their standard price.

These powerful films provide the in-depth context needed to integrate issues of race effectively into a broad range of disciplines and student affairs programs using the lens of the African American experience. The films in this distinguished collection, many of them garnering multiple awards, cover topics from across the full spectrum of the African American experience - from slavery and Reconstruction, through Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Hoxie: The First Stand

Newsreel is proud to release the Peabody and DuPont Columbia Award-winning film, Hoxie:The First Stand. This classic film, produced by acclaimed director David Appleby (At the River I Stand), documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas.

Producer’s Guide to Digital Rights Management

The pace of change in digital distribution has become so frenzied that Newsreel has had to revise and expand this Producers' Guide To Digital Rights Management just nine months after it was first issued. Today, we are involved in a change, not just in how moving image content is delivered but in how viewers engage it and why. Click the link for your copy of the revised document.

Money-Driven Medicine - and health care reform

Money-Driven Medicine provides the first and only look on film at the forces underlying - and undermining - healthcare and so provides Americans the framework they need to address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform in the years ahead. The acclaimed film has been showcased on Nightline, Bill Moyers' Journal, and Terry Gross's Fresh Air. It features Dr. Donald Berwick, just appointed head of Medicare and Medicaid by Pres. Obama.

New African American Perspectives DVD Catalog Available

Newsreel's latest collection of DVDs on African American history, culture, icons and social movements is now available electronically and in print. The catalog features an array of new films and videos as well as classics from the African American Perspectives DVD Collection. Download your free copy today.

UNNATURAL CAUSES Wins Top Science Communications Honor

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? added to its awards by winning the prize for Best Film / Radio / TV Program of 2009 from the National Academies of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. More than 20,000 community and campus dialogues, policy forums, trainings and other events addressing health inequities built around the series have already been convened since its DVD release.

Check out our DVD collection on HEALTH & SOCIAL JUSTICE for a complete listing of other films and videos exploring global health inequities.

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.

70 African Film Classics now $24.95 per DVD

In an effort to make North America's largest collection of African films more widely available, we are now offering these African feature films and documentaries at the greatly reduced price of $24.95 per DVD! California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema was launched in 1981 with 8 films 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 DVDs from 25 countries, including classic feature films by by internationally renowned master filmmakers like Ousmane Sembene (Faat Kine) and Djibril Diop Mambety (La petite vendeuse de Soleil).
Read an article in the Statesman about this uniquely "valuable collection" here.