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Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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Jalil Muntaqim Interview Jalil Muntaqim Interview
Date: 3/14/1988Call Number: V 039Format: SVHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Jalil Muntaqim Interviewed in 1988 for the making of a video on the ‘New York 3’ and their legal case. The New York 3 includes Jalil, Herman Bell and Nuh Washington. Part 1 of the raw interview in prison.
Jalil Muntaqim Interview Jalil Muntaqim Interview
Date: 3/14/1988Call Number: V 040Format: SVHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Jalil Muntaqim Interviewed in 1988 for the making of a video on the ‘New York 3’ and their legal case. The New York 3 includes Jalil, Herman Bell and Nuh Washington. Part 2 of the raw interview in prison.
Herman Bell & Jalil Muntaqim Interview Herman Bell & Jalil Muntaqim Interview
Date: 3/1/1988Call Number: V 043Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Herman Bell & Jalil Muntaqim Interviewed in 1988 for the making of a video on the ‘New York 3’ and their legal case. The New York 3 includes Jalil Muntaqim, Herman Bell and Nuh Washington. EPS VHS of the raw interview in prison.
Eyes on the Prize: Power (1966-1968) & The Promised Land (1967-1968) Eyes on the Prize: Power (1966-1968) & The Promised Land (1967-1968)
Call Number: V 108Format: VHSProducers: PBSProgram: Eyes on the PrizeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Power (1966-1968) - Solutions to the problems of inequality were as diverse as America itself. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense develops in Oakland, California. The Promised Land (1967-1968) - The escalating Vietnam War further divided America, and the governent’s War on Poverty began to suffer.
Eyes on the Prize: Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972) & A Nation of Law? (1968-1971) Eyes on the Prize: Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972) & A Nation of Law? (1968-1971)
Call Number: V 109Format: VHSProducers: PBSProgram: Eyes on the PrizeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972) - Muhammad Ali...Howard University...Gary, Indiana...Through these names, African Americans reclaimed their heritage in different ways. A Nation of Law? (1968-1971) - The Black Panther Party...Fred Hampton...Attica...These names equaled controversy in the America of law and order promised by President Nixon. Urban rebellion & campus unrest, protest and reprisals.
The Trials of Henry Kissinger The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Date: 12/1/2002Call Number: V 112Format: DVDProducers: Alex Gibney, Eugene JareckiCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A Film by Alex Gibney & Eugene Jarecki Is Henry Kissinger a war criminal? Featuring previously unseen footage, newly declassified U.S. government documents, and revealing interviews with key insiders from Henry Kissinger's White House years, this new film examines charges facing the former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Focusing on his role in three key events - America's secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, the approval of Indonesia's genocidal assault on East Timor in 1975, and the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970 - THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER also examines the possibility that Kissinger, by sabotaging the 1969 Paris peace talks to further Nixon's candidacy and his own concomitant rise to power, bears responsibility for all the deaths in Vietnam from 1969 to 1975. To debate the issues, the film brings together Kissinger's friends, colleagues, and detractors, including Gen. Alexander Haig, Jr., Seymour Hersh, Christopher Hitchens, Walter Isaacson, William Safire, Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, and William Shawcross, as well as Vietnam peace talks delegate Daniel Davidson, former U.S. Ambassadors Edward Korry and David Newsom, National Security Council staffer Roger Morris, Human Rights Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, and Professor of Law Michael Tigar, among others. Shedding light on a career long shrouded in secrecy, the film explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful men in American foreign policy and now, in the autumn of his life, one of its most controversial figures.
Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X
Date: 5/19/1975Call Number: V 217Format: UmaticProducers: Nothing is More Precious ThanProgram: Open Studio - KQEDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tribute to Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh who share a birthday - May 19th. Utilizes historical Soviet film footage of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese National Liberation Front and film and stills of malcolm X.
Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X
Date: 5/19/1975Call Number: V 218Format: UmaticProducers: Nothing is More Precious ThanProgram: Open Studio - KQEDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tribute to Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh who share a birthday - May 19th. Utilizes historical Soviet film footage of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese National Liberation Front and film and stills of malcolm X.
Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X
Date: 5/19/1975Call Number: V 219Format: Mini DVProducers: Nothing is More Precious ThanProgram: Open Studio - KQEDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tribute to Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh who share a birthday - May 19th. Utilizes historical Soviet film footage of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese National Liberation Front and film and stills of malcolm X. BC Master some brief tape damage 1 channel audio (LP) Master 2 channel audio (SP)
In the Year of the Pig In the Year of the Pig
Date: 1/1/1968Call Number: V 312Format: DVDProducers: Emile de AntonioCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Regarded as Emile de Antonio's best film. It's an attack on America's foreign policy and propaganda campaign during the Vietnam War. Funded by the French and a group of Marxist rebels, the film is provocative and coolly intellectual. The film shows that Vietnam was always a single country, goes to lengths to highlight the fact that the US treated the conflict solely as a proxy war against Communism and provides insight into the US government's increasing control of the media.