Newsreel Retrospective (1968–1972)
Co-presented with Third World Newsreel (TWN)

Films: FUERA YANQUI, MY COUNTRY OCCUPIED, PEOPLE’S WAR, and REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY a.k.a. WE ARE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

This series of films from the Newsreel collective looks at national liberation struggles and the fight against imperialism and colonization in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Vietnam, and Palestine.

FUERA YANQUI (Newsreel)

Newsreel, 1970, 15 min.

This film provides a short history of the Dominican Republic and an analysis of the control exerted on its economic structure by U.S. interests. The people of the island talk about the "elections," the CIA coups, the popular uprisings, and the U.S. invasion.

MY COUNTRY OCCUPIED (Newsreel)

Tami Gold, Heather Archibald, 1971, 30 min.

In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America. MY COUNTRY OCCUPIED was inspired by the work of Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez.

PEOPLE’S WAR (Newsreel #43)

Newsreel, 1969, 40 min.

PEOPLE’S WAR records the mobilization and participation of the Vietnamese people in their country's fight against colonialism and foreign military aggression. Moving beyond the perception of the Vietnamese as victims, the film investigates a society fully committed to national liberation. It details their long history of resisting the U.S. military as well as their struggles to overcome the French colonial legacy of economic underdevelopment.

REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY a.k.a. WE ARE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE (Newsreel #65)

San Francisco Newsreel, 1973, 45 min.

Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relationship to Western imperialism. There is footage of the guerrillas in training, and interviews with Palestinian leaders and militants who work in many programs of theliberation struggle of the time.