Newsreel Retrospective (1968-1972)
The Newsreel Retrospective features newly digitized films documenting the social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. These films—produced by the original Newsreel collective—capture the immediacy of grassroots organizing, from Black and Brown liberation to anti-war protests, feminist struggles, and housing justice.
In the fall of 2025, Third World Newsreel (TWN) launched theatrical screenings of its Newsreel Retrospective (1968–1972), starting with three major venues: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Anthology Film Archives, and DOK Leipzig in Germany. This retrospective marks the culmination of a two-year initiative led by JT Takagi and Film Archivist Draye Wilson to digitally preserve 60 early Newsreel films, with preservation work completed at Metropolis in New York City.
Your Guide To The Experience:
"Columbia Revolt" Schedule
Your Guide To The Experience:
Newsreel Retrospective (1968-1972)
Schedule
Schedule
"The Newsreel" at DOC NYC
Nov 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM and Nov 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM
"Black Panther" Digital Preservation at Black Harvest Film Festival
The Film Center is ADA accessible.
"People's Park" at Roxy Cinema New York
"People's Park" at Ardèche images - Festival états généraux du documentaire Lussas
"Black Panther" Digital Preservation at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
"Fuera Yanqui," "My Country Occupied" and "Revolution Until Victory aka We are the Palestinian People" at Bertha DocHouse
"Break and Enter" and "Chicago Convention Challenge" presented by Documenta Madrid at Filmoteca Española
"El Pueblo Se Levanta" and "Garbage" presented by Documenta Madrid at Filmoteca Española
"The Woman's Film" and "Jeanette Ranking Brigade" presented by Documenta Madrid at Filmoteca Española
"Columbia Revolt" and "I.S. 201 & Newark Report" presented by Documenta Madrid at Filmoteca Española
Part of "Taking the Pulse. Cinema of the Newsreel Collective (1968-1972)" film program
"May Day Panther," "El Pueblo se Levanta" and "Columbia Revolt" at Bertha DocHouse
"The Case against Film Festival" at the New York Public Library
"Columbia Revolt" and "Garbage" at Spectacle, Brooklyn
"El Pueblo Se Levanta" and "Black Panther" at Lumonir Cinema, Paris
"Fuera Yanqui," "The Case Against Lincoln Center" and "Revolution Until Victory: We are the Palestinian People" at cineSPEAK
Part of "The People Rise Up: A Third World Newsreel Retrospective (1968-72)" film program
"The Wreck of the New York Subways" at Firehouse Cinema
Mar 21, 1:00 PM and Mar 23, 7:00 PM
"Black Panther" at Cinema Center, Fort Wayne
"Up Against the Wall, Miss America" at the Vassar College Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Part of the Women’s Work: Organizing New York Independent Film & Video exhibit from February 25-May24, 2026
"Revolution Until Victory: We Are the Palestinian People" at Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Presented by the Palestine Film Institute
"El Pueblo Se Levanta" at cineSpeak
"Up Against the Wall Miss America" exhibition in Oslo
February 13 - May 3, 2026
Black Panther Short Films - Newly Preserved
"The Woman's Film" at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Two Screenings on January 19 and February 8
"The Woman's Film" at British Film Institute (BFI), London
"People's Park" at La Clef
"Break and Enter" at Zeughauskino in Berlin
Newsreel Retrospective 1968-1972 at Anthology Film Archives
November 14-20, 2025
Newsreel Retrospective 1968-1972 at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
"The Wreck of the New York Subway", "El Pueblo Se Levanta", "The Case Against Lincoln Center", "My Country Occupied", "Revolution Until Victory - We Are the Palestinian People" and Q&A with Tami Gold, Heather Lewis and Bev Grant
"Break and Enter" at DOK Leipzig, Germany Copy
"Army" and "My Country Occupied" at DOK Leipzig, Germany
"Black Panther" at DOK Leipzig, Germany
"Felix Revolts", "Garbage", "Lincoln Hospital", "Pa Bell Go to Hell", "Union" and "The Wreck of the New York Subways" at Paradise Theatre, Toronto
September 3-September 30, 2026
Visual Journey: Moments From
Columbia Revolt
Visual Journey: Moments From
Newsreel Retrospective (1968-1972)
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