A documentary about militant student political activity in the University of California-Berkeley in the 1960s.
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, the development of the counterculture of the 1960s in Berkeley, California, and ending with People's Park in 1969.
Depending on how you feel about the 1960s and hippies, you may feel one way or another about this film. But as a history, it is a fairly objective look at what was going on in Berkeley, and how that campus has become known -- even 50 years later -- as the most radical in the country, whether or not that is true. The bulk of the interviews are with former students, but even so we can get a rather full picture.
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, the development of the counterculture of the 1960s in Berkeley, California, and ending with People's Park in 1969.
Depending on how you feel about the 1960s and hippies, you may feel one way or another about this film. But as a history, it is a fairly objective look at what was going on in Berkeley, and how that campus has become known -- even 50 years later -- as the most radical in the country, whether or not that is true. The bulk of the interviews are with former students, but even so we can get a rather full picture.