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Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials

Documents

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 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)
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.
World in Action - Volume One World in Action - Volume One
Call Number: V 311Format: DVDProducers: Granada TVProgram: World in ActionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A major strand of British television programming – in this case Granada’s World in Action - roots through its archive and comes up with twelve fascinating offerings made between the 1960s and the 1990s. • Mick Jagger (tx. 31.07.1967) • End of a Revolution? (tx. 11.12.1967) Che Guevara and Regis Debray • The Demonstration (tx. 18.03.1968) Vietnam anti-war • The Quiet Mutiny (tx. 28.09.1970) Vietnam troops • The Man Who Stole Uganda (tx. 05.04.1971) Idi Amin • Death of a Revolutionary (tx. 27.09.1971) George Jackson • The Siege of Kontum (tx. 05.06.1972) Montagnards • The Life and Death of Steve Biko (tx. 03.10.1977) • Prisoner of Terrorism (tx. 10.07.1978) horst mahler • Banged Up (tx. 02.04.1979) Strangeways Prison • Killing for a Cure (tx. 16.02.1981) Animal Liberation Front • The Birmingham Six: Their Own Story (tx. 18.03.1991) Irish Republican Army
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.
Everyman Everyman
Call Number: V 720Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Everyman is the name of a boat built in Sausalito by the Bay Area peace movement to sail into the Pacific Ocean nuclear test zones to protest nuclear testing. The film covers Everyman's first and only voyage on May 27th, 1962 when it sailed out the Golden Gate only to be stopped twenty miles out by the U.S. Coast Guard who arrested the crew and impounded the boat. Protests included sit-in demonstrations at the U.S. Marshall's office where Joan Baez took part, singing "We Shall Overcome." The crew was eventually sentenced to 30 days in jail.
Women for Peace Women for Peace
Call Number: V 721Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women for Peace covers the founding of the organization and many of the first peace demonstrations that it sponsored. With narration by Frances Herring, a founder of Women for Peace, the film covers 1961 and 1962 anti-nuclear demonstrations in California, Nevada and many other activities undertaken by the group.