In 1964 the Berkeley campus of the University of California became the seedbed of the nascent antiwar movement when student demonstrations culminated in the mass arrest of hundreds of protesters. Combining newsreel footage with interviews with some of the main figures of the protests, documentary filmmaker Mark Kitchell sheds light on the first, galvanizing stirrings of the Free Speech Movement and its subsequent influence on late-1960s radicalism.
Release date: September 26, 1990 (New York)
Director: Mark Kitchell
Screenplay: Mark Kitchell, Susan Griffin, Stephen Most
Awards: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film
Editor: Veronica Selver
Producer: Mark Kitchell