Tag: 1970s
Cine Manifest
Revisiting the San Francisco of radicalism, idealism, and combative activism, CINE MANIFEST narrates the story of an early-‘70s Marxist film collective whose members sought a place to live, learn, and change the world. Director Judy [...]
The Weather Underground
This award-winning film explores the incredible story of “The Weather Underground,” with former members reflecting candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to “bring the war home,” painting a compelling portrait of troubled and revolutionary times, with unexpected and often striking connections to the current world situation.”
The Same River Twice
An instant hit at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is a rich and warmly insightful mosaic of change, choices and communal living, highly acclaimed as [...]
Scared Straight!
This Academy Award® and Emmy® award-winning film recounts the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the Rahway maximum security prison with the most dangerous criminals New Jersey had to offer. These convicts gave the youths an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, hoping to change the course of the teens’ lives.