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Another Brother
directed by Tami Gold, fl. 1982; produced by Tami Gold, fl. 1982, AndersonGold Films (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1998), 50 mins
Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, ANOTHER BROTHER tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch. Clarence Fitch was a man of and for his times, an African American who witnessed and took part in the social movements of this country from the turmoil of the sixties through th...
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directed by Tami Gold, fl. 1982; produced by Tami Gold, fl. 1982, AndersonGold Films (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1998), 50 mins
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Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, ANOTHER BROTHER tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch. Clarence Fitch was a man of and for his times, an African American who witnessed and took part in the social movements of this country from the turmoil of the sixties through the present decade. Telling a story fraught with both heroism and tragedy, the film situates Vietnam vet Clarence Fitch's life within the...
Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, ANOTHER BROTHER tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch. Clarence Fitch was a man of and for his times, an African American who witnessed and took part in the social movements of this country from the turmoil of the sixties through the present decade. Telling a story fraught with both heroism and tragedy, the film situates Vietnam vet Clarence Fitch's life within the context of a remarkable range of issues--racism, the Black civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and its aftermath, the scourge of drugs, and finally the AIDS crisis. ANOTHER BROTHER both honors Clarence Fitch and digs deeply into the roots of his struggles. Clarence grew up in New Jersey, in a close-knit working class family. He was 18 in 1967 when the Marines put him on the front lines of jungle warfare in Vietnam - a horror compounded by the racist attitudes and policy that increasingly colored his military experience. When he came home, Clarence fit the profile of many returning vets: angry, alienated, anti-war, and addicted to heroin. But Clarence fought back. Despite his addiction, he held a post office job for 12 years and became a leader in his union. He was extremely active in the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War and, at every opportunity, stood up against racism, whether in South Africa against apartheid, or at home. After years of leading a double-life, Clarence found the strength to end his addiction and worked tirelessly to help other recovering addicts. After six years of sobriety, he was diagnosed with AIDS. Once again, Clarence found the inner strength to rise above his own personal crisis. He spent the last years of his life working on behalf of people with AIDS, among his other commitments. Clarence Fitch was a hero when he died in 1990 at the age of 42 - not because he had been decorated with the Purple Heart for his combat in Vietnam, but because he transformed his life and the lives of thousands of others. ANOTHER BROTHER was five years in the making by Tami Gold. She relied on the detailed archives of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, as well as other organizations around the country that donated rare film and video footage from the Vietnam era and Clarence's activities. Much of the soundtrack consists of Clarence's own voice from an audio interview conducted by a fellow Vietnam veteran, William Short. Clarence's wife, mother, sister, daughter and best friend are featured prominently in family photos, home movies, and in frank on-screen comments about a complicated man who matured into a reknowned community activist.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Clarence Fitch, 1948-1990, Tami Gold, fl. 1982, AndersonGold Films
Author / Creator
Tami Gold, fl. 1982
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Person Discussed
Clarence Fitch, 1948-1990
Topic / Theme
Veterans (Armed services), Racism, Drug abuse, Social activism and activists, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Vietnam War Protest Movement, 1963-1975, African Americans
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Copyright © 1998 by Tami Gold
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Black Nations/Queer Nations? Lesbian and Gay Sexualities in the African Diaspora
directed by Shari Frilot; produced by Shari Frilot (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1995), 52 mins
This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The conference brought together an array of dynamic scholars, activists, and cultural workers including Essex Hemphill, Kobena Mercer, Barbara Smith, Urvashi Vaid, and Ja...
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directed by Shari Frilot; produced by Shari Frilot (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1995), 52 mins
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This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The conference brought together an array of dynamic scholars, activists, and cultural workers including Essex Hemphill, Kobena Mercer, Barbara Smith, Urvashi Vaid, and Jacqui Alexander to interrogate the economic, political, and social situations of diasporic lesbians, gay men, bisexual, and transgender...
This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The conference brought together an array of dynamic scholars, activists, and cultural workers including Essex Hemphill, Kobena Mercer, Barbara Smith, Urvashi Vaid, and Jacqui Alexander to interrogate the economic, political, and social situations of diasporic lesbians, gay men, bisexual, and transgender peoples. The video brings together the highlights of the conference and draws connections between popular culture and contemporary black gay media production. The participants discuss various topics: Black and queer identity, the shortcomings of Black nationalism, and homophobia in Black communities. Drawing upon works such as Isaac Julien's "The Attendant" and Jocelyn Taylor's "Bodily Functions," this documentary illuminates the importance of this historic conference for Black lesbians and gays.
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Field of Study
LGBT Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Shari Frilot
Author / Creator
Shari Frilot
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Topic / Theme
African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1995 Third World Newsreel
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Body and Soul
directed by Matthieu Bron, 1976-; produced by Matthieu Bron, 1976-, Meetings Lda (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2011), 54 mins
Victoria, Mariana and Vasco are three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities living in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city. The film explores how they see themselves, raising questions about self-acceptance and how to find one’s place in society.
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directed by Matthieu Bron, 1976-; produced by Matthieu Bron, 1976-, Meetings Lda (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2011), 54 mins
Description
Victoria, Mariana and Vasco are three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities living in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city. The film explores how they see themselves, raising questions about self-acceptance and how to find one’s place in society.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Matthieu Bron, 1976-, Meetings Lda
Author / Creator
Matthieu Bron, 1976-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Physical disabilities, Early 21st Century United States (2001– ), Mozambicans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011 Third World Newsreel
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Hatch-Billops Collection, Take Your Bags
directed by Camille Billops, 1933-, in Hatch-Billops Collection (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1998), 11 mins
"My take on slavery: When the Africans boarded the ships bound for America, they carried in their bags all their memories of home. When they arrived in the New World, their bags had been switched, and in them they found nigger, beast, slave,...Many generations later, the children of these Africans toured the Museu...
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directed by Camille Billops, 1933-, in Hatch-Billops Collection (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1998), 11 mins
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"My take on slavery: When the Africans boarded the ships bound for America, they carried in their bags all their memories of home. When they arrived in the New World, their bags had been switched, and in them they found nigger, beast, slave,...Many generations later, the children of these Africans toured the Museum of Modern Art to see the sculptures and art of Picasso, Braque and Matisse. Lo! There were the beautiful icons of their ancestors, th...
"My take on slavery: When the Africans boarded the ships bound for America, they carried in their bags all their memories of home. When they arrived in the New World, their bags had been switched, and in them they found nigger, beast, slave,...Many generations later, the children of these Africans toured the Museum of Modern Art to see the sculptures and art of Picasso, Braque and Matisse. Lo! There were the beautiful icons of their ancestors, the images that had been stolen from their bags."--Camille Billops
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Camille Billops, 1933-
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Series
Hatch-Billops Collection
Speaker / Narrator
Camille Billops, 1933-
Person Discussed
Camille Billops, 1933-
Topic / Theme
Racial identity, Slavery
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1998 by Camille Billops
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Indochina: Traces of a Mother
directed by Idrissou Mora-Kpai, 1967-; produced by Noble Films and MKJ Films (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2011), 1 hour 11 mins
INDOCHINA: TRACES OF A MOTHER documents a little-known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history and the personal story of Christophe, a Beninese-Vietnamese orphan that returns to Vietnam to look for his long-lost mother. Between 1946 and 1
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directed by Idrissou Mora-Kpai, 1967-; produced by Noble Films and MKJ Films (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2011), 1 hour 11 mins
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INDOCHINA: TRACES OF A MOTHER documents a little-known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history and the personal story of Christophe, a Beninese-Vietnamese orphan that returns to Vietnam to look for his long-lost mother. Between 1946 and 1
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Noble Films, MKJ Films
Author / Creator
Idrissou Mora-Kpai, 1967-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Vietnam War, 1956-1975
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011 Idrissou Mora-Kpai
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Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, A (52 min)
produced by Daresha Kyi, fl. 1995 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1995), 52 mins
An epic portrait of the eloquent, award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde, whose writings -- spanning five decades -- articulated some of the most important social and political visions of the century. From Lorde's childhood roots in NYC's Harlem to her battle with breast canc...
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produced by Daresha Kyi, fl. 1995 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1995), 52 mins
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An epic portrait of the eloquent, award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde, whose writings -- spanning five decades -- articulated some of the most important social and political visions of the century. From Lorde's childhood roots in NYC's Harlem to her battle with breast cancer, this moving film explores a life and a body of work that embodied the connections between the Civil Rights movement, the Women's mo...
An epic portrait of the eloquent, award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde, whose writings -- spanning five decades -- articulated some of the most important social and political visions of the century. From Lorde's childhood roots in NYC's Harlem to her battle with breast cancer, this moving film explores a life and a body of work that embodied the connections between the Civil Rights movement, the Women's movement, and the struggle for lesbian and gay rights. At the heart of this documentary is Lorde's own challenge to "envision what has not been and work with every fiber of who we are to make the reality and pursuit of that vision irresistible."
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Daresha Kyi, fl. 1995
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Person Discussed
Audre Geraldine Lorde, 1934-1992
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1995 by Third World Newsreel
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Mississippi Triangle
directed by Allan Siegel, Worth Long and Christine Choy, 1953-; produced by Christine Choy, 1953-, Third World Newsreel (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1984), 1 hour 18 mins
This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese community, originally brought to the South to work on cotton plantations after the Civil War, is framed against the ha...
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directed by Allan Siegel, Worth Long and Christine Choy, 1953-; produced by Christine Choy, 1953-, Third World Newsreel (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1984), 1 hour 18 mins
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This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese community, originally brought to the South to work on cotton plantations after the Civil War, is framed against the harsh realities of civil rights, religion, politics, and class in the South. Rare historical footage and interviews of Delta residents ar...
This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese community, originally brought to the South to work on cotton plantations after the Civil War, is framed against the harsh realities of civil rights, religion, politics, and class in the South. Rare historical footage and interviews of Delta residents are combined to create this unprecedented document of inter-ethnic relations in the American South. A Third World Newsreel production.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Christine Choy, 1953-, Third World Newsreel
Author / Creator
Allan Siegel, Worth Long, Christine Choy, 1953-
Date Published / Released
1984
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Intercommunity relations, Ethnic relations, African Americans, Americans, Chinese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1984 Third World Newsreel
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Newsreel, America
in Newsreel (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1969), 32 mins
Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front. Conversations with Vietnam veterans, young teenagers, and African American militants contextualizes footage that graphically depicts the heightened incidents of mass protest...
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in Newsreel (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1969), 32 mins
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Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front. Conversations with Vietnam veterans, young teenagers, and African American militants contextualizes footage that graphically depicts the heightened incidents of mass protest and police repression.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Date Published / Released
1969
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Series
Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Police brutality, War, Vietnam War Protest Movement, 1963-1975, Political and Social Movements, The Sixties (1960–1974), African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1969 by Third World Newsreel
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An Opera of the World
(New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2017), 1 hour 10 mins
Manthia Diawara’s film is based on the African opera Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, which recounts an eternal migration drama. The Bintou Were opera, filmed on location in Bamako, in 2007, serves as a mirror for Diawara to build an aesthetic and reflexive story, through song and dance, about the current and yet tim...
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(New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2017), 1 hour 10 mins
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Manthia Diawara’s film is based on the African opera Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, which recounts an eternal migration drama. The Bintou Were opera, filmed on location in Bamako, in 2007, serves as a mirror for Diawara to build an aesthetic and reflexive story, through song and dance, about the current and yet timeless drama of migration between North and South, and the ongoing refugee crises. The film ponders on the realities of cultural encount...
Manthia Diawara’s film is based on the African opera Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, which recounts an eternal migration drama. The Bintou Were opera, filmed on location in Bamako, in 2007, serves as a mirror for Diawara to build an aesthetic and reflexive story, through song and dance, about the current and yet timeless drama of migration between North and South, and the ongoing refugee crises. The film ponders on the realities of cultural encounters through the concepts of métissage and hybridity. The success and limits of fusing African and European perspectives are tested by interlacing performances from the Bintou Were opera, past and present archival footage of migrations, classic European arias, and interviews with European and African intellectuals, artists and social activists – including Alexander Kluge, Fatou Diome, Nicole Lapierre and Richard Sennett.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Opera, Migration, Migration and Diaspora
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2018 by Manthia Diawara
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Paulding Avenue Trilogy, Episode 1, Vintage: Families of Value
directed by Thomas Allen Harris, fl. 2001; produced by Thomas Allen Harris, fl. 2001, in Paulding Avenue Trilogy, Episode 1 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1995), 1 hour 11 mins
VINTAGE is an experimental documentary which looks at three African American families through the eyes of lesbian and gay siblings--including the filmmaker and his younger brother. Three groups of queer siblings use video cameras to articulate the multiple stories that co-exist within the space of family, negotiat...
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directed by Thomas Allen Harris, fl. 2001; produced by Thomas Allen Harris, fl. 2001, in Paulding Avenue Trilogy, Episode 1 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1995), 1 hour 11 mins
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VINTAGE is an experimental documentary which looks at three African American families through the eyes of lesbian and gay siblings--including the filmmaker and his younger brother. Three groups of queer siblings use video cameras to articulate the multiple stories that co-exist within the space of family, negotiating sexuality as a point of departure to explore these relationships. VINTAGE crosses the boundaries of truth, gender, time and power t...
VINTAGE is an experimental documentary which looks at three African American families through the eyes of lesbian and gay siblings--including the filmmaker and his younger brother. Three groups of queer siblings use video cameras to articulate the multiple stories that co-exist within the space of family, negotiating sexuality as a point of departure to explore these relationships. VINTAGE crosses the boundaries of truth, gender, time and power to create a collective and autobiographical portrait of modern American families. VINTAGE is the first installment of the Paulding Avenue Trilogy, which also includes E MINHA CARA and TWELVE DISCIPLES OF NELSON MANDELA.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Thomas Allen Harris, fl. 2001
Author / Creator
Thomas Allen Harris, fl. 2001
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Series
Paulding Avenue Trilogy
Topic / Theme
African-Americans, Gay siblings, Family and Culture, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1995 by Thomas Allen Harris
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