5 great docs at one great price!
IndiePix is now offering 5 films from our friends at California Newsreel for just $99.00. That's over 30% off!
REVOLUTION '67
REVOLUTION '67 focuses on the explosive urban rebellion in Newark, New Jersey, in July 1967, to reveal the long-standing racial, economic, and political forces which generated inner city poverty and perpetuate it today. Newark residents, police, officials, and urban commentators, including writer/activist Amiri Baraka, journalist Bob Herbert, prominent historians, and 60s activist Tom Hayden, recount the vivid, day-to-day details of the uprising. But they also trace those traumatic days back to decades of industrial decline, unemployment, job and housing discrimination, federal programs favoring suburbs over cities, police impunity, political corruption, and a costly, divisive overseas war.
With its insightful interviews and poignant analysis, REVOLUTION '67 also traces the contributing factors that led up to the riots in Newark, as well as those in Detroit, Watts and countless other American cities in the '60s. And the film's postscript Newark Today, provides a startling looked at what has and has not changed in the past 40 years.
90 minutes
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BLACK GOLD
BLACK GOLD asks us to wake up and smell the coffee, to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it. The film traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce the beans. In particular, It follows Tadesse Meskela as he tries to get a living wage for the 70,000 Ethiopian coffee farmers he represents. In the process Black Gold provides the most in-depth study of any commodity on film today and offers a compelling introduction to the fair trade movement galvanizing consumers around the globe.
The filmmakers of BLACK GOLD, brothers Nick and Marc Francis, have said their purpose was to make a film that forced us, as Western consumers, to question some of our basic assumptions about our consumer lifestyle and its interaction with the rest of the world.
After seeing BLACK GOLD coffee will never taste the same again.
78 minutes
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BANISHED
BANISHED vividly recovers the forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americans were driven from their homes and communities by violent, racist mobs. The film places these events in the context of present day race relations by following three concrete cases where black and white citizens warily explore if there is common ground for reconciliation over these expulsions. BANISHED raises this larger question: will the United States ever make meaningful reparations for the human rights abuses suffered, then and now, against its African American citizens? Can reconciliation between the races be possible without them?
Both a scrupulously researched history film and a probing study of the process of racial reconciliation, Banished is a valuable resource for teaching American History, the Jim Crow era, race relations, cultural competency, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution, and restorative justice as well as journalistic ethics.
84 minutes
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FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS
A lament for a drowned culture brought to you direct from our partner California Newsreel.
FAUBOURG TREME was largely shot before the Katrina tragedy but edited afterward, giving the film both a celebratory and elegiac tone. Our guide through the neighborhood is New Orleans Time-Picayune reporter Lolis Eric Elie, who decided that rather than abandon his heritage he would invest in it by rehabilitating an old house in the Treme district. We meet characters who paint an incredible picture of the history of this area, which is widely considered the birthplace of Jazz, and a hotbed of civil rights struggles. But FAUBOURG TREME doesnt simply commemorate, it reminds us that American society still confronts the same battles that the residents of Treme have waged through two centuries demands for economic justice, voting rights, equal education, decent public services in short, full citizenship for African Americans.
67 minutes
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SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMÉO DALLAIRE
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL presents the tragic story of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, from the perspective of one individual who fought soci-political pressure and prejudices in an attempt to keep it from spiralling out of control.
For 100 days, one man was the conscience of a world that turned its back on the slaughter of 800,000 human beings. That man was General Romo Dallaire, commander of the small, underresouced, and hamstrung U.N. peacekeeping force stationed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMO DALLAIRE movingly documents his return to Rwanda for the 10th anniversary of the genocide, reliving the political and psychological drama in unforgettable detail. Director Peter Raymont follows Dallaire as he revisits the sites of mass murder and heroism, vividly brought back to life by his traumatic memories and striking newsreel footage.
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL does not attempt to describe the Rwandan tragedy from the point of view of Rwandans. On the contrary, its subject is the West's view of Rwanda and how the international community and media abandoned the Rwandan people in their time of greatest need.
91 minutes
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Or you can buy these titles individually...
REVOLUTION '67
BLACK GOLD
BANISHED
FAUBOURG TREME
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL
