Videos & Films
On November 13, 2011, the people of Portland took to the streets to defend the Occupy Portland encampment from eviction by the police. Shot at night, Occupy Portland Eviction Defense shows college students, union members, and working...
Plena is Work, Plena is Song examines the cultural and political history of the plena, a Puerto Rican musical blend of African and Spanish rhythms. The plena is a song, a form of storytelling, and a newspaper of the people that satirizes...
The New Africa Center has produced an historically important video that documents the development and subsequent growth of the Nation of Islam in Philadelphia during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Showcasing first-hand accounts by early...
The last episode of the five-part Showdown in Seattle series documents massive protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO) from November 29 to December 5, 1999. Video producers from across the US, working under the umbrella of the...
Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery is a ten-part series about youth, law, and justice. These short documentaries feature the voices of daring youth from across the country who went to court to compel the government to protect...
Must You Pay the Rent? is part of the Survival Information Television series facilitated by New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC). Made for lower-income residents, the video focuses on tenants’ rights and advocates for different kinds of...
A home foreclosure crisis has gripped Detroit, Michigan for over a decade. Illegally inflated property taxes have caused more than 100,000 working families to lose their homes. Take Me Home follows one family as they fight to save their...
In 1987, AIDS activists criticized President Ronald Reagan’s administration for its gross mismanagement of the AIDS crisis. Militant activist groups took to New York City streets to denounce mandatory testing as a discriminatory practice,...
The Invisible City: Houston’s Housing Crisis; Part 2: Messages was part of a KUHT public television five-episode interactive community documentary. An oil boomtown, 1970s Houston was a fast-growing city with skyscrapers and reduced...
The Taking of One Liberty Place documents the October 1, 1987 sit-in and occupation of Philadelphia’s newest and largest office building, One Liberty Place. Members of the National Homeless Union chose this building as a symbol of...
A disabled member of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) says “If the rank and file membership don’t take over their local unions and elect officers got some guts, they might as well throw up their hands and quit.” In 1970, UMWA...
Since its 1991 inception, Prevention Point Philadelphia has illegally conducted syringe exchanges, a safer alternative to the war on drugs. To the Point documents this program committed to protecting the health and rights of habitual drug...