Movie Reviews for Berkeley in the Sixties

Berkeley in the Sixties

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Movie Reviews of Berkeley in the Sixties

Movie Review: What Historical Documentaries Should Aim to Be
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the first and only review I have ever posted on the Internet.

I've chosen to write this review because, simply put, this is a tremendous documentary.

Forty-plus years removed from that tumultous decade, we've now carictured the 60s with classic images and trite phrases like "tumultous decade." This piece, however, puts into perspective how and why the organized activism started and evolved, how it merged with the hippie and drug culture, and how a student sit-in with a narrow, parochial purpose on a single college campus grew into national cutural and verbal upheaval.

I do not recall learning so much from a documentary. I could not more highly recommend this.

Movie Review: Nice
Summary: 5 Stars

I would like to tell you a little bit about the documentary by Mark Kitchell entitled Berkeley in the Sixties. This film is a great synopsis of the 60s civil rights and counter culture movements based out of UC Berkeley. The film was released in 1990 and contains interviews with everybody from members of the Black Panthers to Country Joe and the Fish. It starts at the beginning of the sixties with the events that would eventually lead to the first protest to the hippies and Peoples Park and so on, interviewing people even into the late 80s. The film kept my attention and was very educational.

Movie Review: Berkeley protests
Summary: 5 Stars

This documentary is a fabulous, historic account of protests in Berkeley, the reasons citizens revolted, how some protests kindled into large events that cut across racial boundries.

Movie Review: Berkeley in the 60's
Summary: 5 Stars

I lived in Berkeley during the 60's and knew some of the filmmakers; this documentary IS Berkeley during that time. Very accurate portrayal of a significant time in history.