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Berkeley in the Sixties
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Wikipedia article
'Berkeley in the Sixties' is a 1990 documentary film by Mark Kitchell.[http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/berkeleyinthesixties/ POV|PBS][https://vimeo.com/261230484 Trailer on Vimeo]
Summary
The film highlights the origins of the Free Speech Movement beginning with the May 1960 House Un-American Activities Committee hearings at San Francisco City Hall,[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-1990/berkeley-in-the-sixties Perspectives on History|AHA] the development of the counterculture of the 1960s in Berkeley, California,[https://ew.com/article/1990/11/30/berkeley-sixties-2/ EW.com] and ending with People's Park in 1969.[https://www.tvguide.com/movies/berkeley-in-the-60s/review/131391/ TV Guide] The film features 15 student activists and archival footage of Mario Savio, Todd Gitlin, Joan Baez, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Allen Ginsberg, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the Grateful Dead. The film is dedicated to Fred Cody, founder of Cody's Books. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dv58ssSr08 Documentary Winners: 1991 Oscars] It also aired on the PBS series 'POV'.
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes assigned the film an approval rating of 100%, based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. Owen Gleiberman from 'Entertainment Weekly' gave it a grade of "A", writing "The film doesnt shrink from saying that many of the 60s social-protest movements went too far. It demonstrates that by the end of the decade, protest had become a narcotic in itself. But only a movie that understands the 60s as profoundly as this one has truly earned the right to say that."
Awards
Wins
* 1990 Sundance Film Festival, Audience Award, 1990 [http://history.sundance.org/events/25? 1990 Sundance Film Festival|Archives|Sundance Institute]
* National Society of Film Critics Awards 1990, Best Documentary, 1991.[https://www.fandor.com/films/berkeley_in_the_sixties Fandor]
Nominations
* 63rd Academy Awards, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, 1990.[https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1991 1991|Oscars.org]
* 1990 Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, 1990.
See also
*1990 in film
*Baby Boomers
*Generation Gap
References
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