Multimedia Collection
Berkeley in the Sixties
VHS
118 minutes
1990
LD760 .B47 1990
The sixties comes to life in this imaginatively assembled documentary already hailed as a classic. Berkeley in the Sixties illuminates the rise and fall of the legendary student protests which shaped a generation and changed the course of America.
Six years in the making, Berkeley in the Sixties skillfully interweaves footage culled from thousands of film clips and hundreds of interviews. We see free speech dynamo Mario Savio; University of California President Clark Kerr; poet Allen Ginsberg; Black Panther founder Huey Newton; and Gov. Ronald Reagan - fulminating against a dance where students "twisted and gyrated in a provocative and sensual fashion."
The sound track swells with the Jefferson Airplane and Jimi Hendrix. Fifteen thoughtful paricipants from those years guide the viewer through the rush of events and grapple with their meaning today.
Distributed by California Newsreel.
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