Historic Civil Unrest & Protest Footage – Voices of Change

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Capturing the Movements That Shaped History

The history of social change is written in the streets, from powerful civil rights marches to passionate anti-war demonstrations. This collection of archival footage captures pivotal moments of civil unrest and protest, including the fight for women’s rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and the turbulent aftermath of riots in the 1960s. These raw and compelling images document the voices, struggles, and resilience of activists demanding change. Ideal for documentaries, educational projects, and historical retrospectives, this footage offers an unfiltered look at the power of collective action and the movements that shaped history.

APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA - 1957

South Africa's Apartheid Policy in regards to race relations, political practices and segregation.
Historical films 1957 34 min BW

BALTIMORE PLAN 1953 - ATTACKING HOUSING CONDITIONS

Documents how a young social worker aroused interest of citizens, government officials, and local newspaper in housing conditions in a Baltimore slum neighborhood.
Historical films 1953 BW 20 min

BALTIMORE RIOTS 1968

As the news of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. spreads like wildfire, riots and protests break out in over 125 U.S. cities.
Historical films 1968 28 min COL

BLACK CONTRIBUTION: ORIGINS

Using staged scenes to depict the history of the Yoruba people of West Africa as they are enslaved and bound for Colonial America with scenes of Yoruba culture while in West Africa, enslaved blacks in leg irons and chains, the horrific conditions inside a slave ship and more.
Historical films Colonial Times COL 15min

BLACK CONTRIBUTION: LITERATURE AND THEATER

The contribution of African-Americans in literature, theater and the arts with scenes of Margaret Walker poem For My People, urban street scenes of the Black community, short scenes from the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raison In The Sun and more.
Historical films COL 11 min

BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THE - 1966 - 1969

Huey P. Newton speaking from jail, members marching in protest, Black Panther Party Leaders Huey P. Newton, Elderidge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale speaking out on justice for African Americans.
Historical films 1966 - 1969 15 min BW

CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH - SELMA, ALABAMA 1965

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., leads Civil Rights marchers on a journey to reach Montgomery, the Capitol of Alabama.
Historical films 1965 5 min BW

MARCH, THE

The rally in Washington D.C. called out for comprehensive Civil Rights of African-Americans with the passage of Civil Rights legislation, elimination of racial segregation in public schools, protection from police brutality, prohibiting racial discrimination in hiring and jobs programs.
Historical films 1963 BW 32min

MARCH ON WASHINGTON

With the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's having transformed the political climate a march to Washington D.C. and rally was organized where more than 200,000 Americans joined to hear speeches, songs and prayers led by an array of Civil Rights Leaders, celebrities and clergymen.
Historical films 1963 BW 20min

NEWSREELS: 1963 - AUGUST 29

Civil Rights March In Washington D.C.
Historical films 1963 BW 6 min

REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING CIVIL RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., prior to the march on Washington D.C., participates in a roundtable discussion of rights as they pertain to the government down to individual civil rights.
Historical films 29 min BW

REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. accepts one of the numerous honorary degrees he received over the course of his life.
Historical films 5 min BW (SILENT)

REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 1964

Major events in the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leading up to Dr. King being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Historical films 1964 BW 12min

REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING FUNERAL

Outside scenes of the funeral for Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, April 9, 1968.
Historical films 1968 2 min BW

CHICAGO RIOTS 1968

Aftermath of riots that broke out in Chicago upon hearing of the assassination of Reverend Martin Luthor King, Jr.
Historical films 1968 22 min COL

DETROIT RIOTS, 1967

The aftermath of the Detroit Riot in 1967 when police vice squad officers executed a raid on an after-hours drinking club.
Historical films 1967 39 min COL (SILENT)

DETROIT RIOTS, 1967 - 82nd AIRBORNE

Aftermath of the Detroit Riots also know as the 12th Street Riot after police attempted to execute a raid on an unlicensed after-hours drinking club in a predominately black neighborhood.
Historical films 1967 COL 22min (SILENT)

HUNGARIAN REVOLT - 1956

Hungarians revolt against the policies of the Soviet imposed Communist Government causing a military crackdown.
Historical films 1956 7 min BW (SILENT)

1977 KKK March in Mobile: Racial Tensions & Clashes

Footage of the 1977 Ku Klux Klan march in Mobile, Alabama, met with black protests, racial tensions, police intervention, and violent clashes.
Historical films 1977 13 min COL

LINCOLN PARK DEMONSTRATIONS

Anti-War protest in and around Lincoln Park during the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention with crowds of hippie demonstrations culminating into friction and clashes between war protestors, Chicago police and National Guard.
Historical films 1968 COL 23min

MAN ON THE MOVE RACE RELATIONS IN BLACK AMERICA

Race relations and the influence of the Civil Rights Movement in black America through lifestyle, the Arts and economic realities.
Historical films 1960's - 1970's

MEXICAN REVOLUTION - PANCHO VILLA

Revolution in Mexico with scenes of leaders from Mexico and U.S. as well as Pancho Villa and his guerilla militia.
Historical films 1916-1917 BW 6min (SILENT)

MORATORIUM MARCH ON WASHINGTON

Demonstration in Washington D.C. against the war in Vietnam
Historical films Mid 1960's 15 min COL (SILENT)

PEOPLE AND THE POLICE: POLICE BRUTALITY - OAKLAND, CA

Narrator talks about how town was over half black in the 1960's and the police force was all white. How blacks were generally treated with disrespect.
Historical films 1974 COL 25 min

PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER SCHOOL INTEGRATION CRISIS

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his address to the Nation on racial integration of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Historical films 1957 BW 12min

RACIAL INTEGRATION - UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

Escorted by Federal Marshals Vivian Malone and James Hood become the first black students to attend the University of Alabama in a win for Civil Rights and Human Rights against institutional racism in the South.
Historical films 1963 COL 4min

SCENES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Unedited footage of the Russian Revolution and civil unrest that ended the rule of of the last Russian Czar which was overthrown by the more radical Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin and ultimately the formation of the Soviet Socialist Republics USSR.
Historical films 1916-1925 BW 9min (SILENT)

VIETNAM MORATORIUM MARCH 1969

Anti-war protest and demonstration under the shadow of the Washington Monument with civilian demonstrators as well as a contingent of war vets marching against the war as well.
Historical films 1969 20 min COL (SILENT)

WASHINGTON D.C. RIOTS

Unedited footage of civil unrest and looting that erupted in Washington D.C. after the news that Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee.
Historical films 1968 COL 18min

WASHINGTON D.C. RIOTS 1968

Riots and protests break out in our Nations' capitol as the news of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. is reported to the Nation.
Historical films 1968 13 min COL

WOMEN & THE SPIRIT OF '76 - WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Commentators and leaders of the 1970's Women's Rights Movement comment and make connections between the 200 years of progress attained in 1976 to the leadership and reality of Women's Rights in 1776.
Historical films 1976 COL 32min

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN

The Women’s Suffrage Movement in America (United States) and England (Britain) during the mid-19th century to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920
Historical films 1900's BW 25min (SILENT)

WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE U.S. AN INFORMAL HISTORY

The Feminist Movement in the United States put into historical perspective, from its roots in the colonial period to the late 1970's.
Historical films 1978 28 min BW COL

FIVE CITIES IN JUNE - 1963

Five cities, five historical events; Vatican City - Death Of Pope John XXIII, Unknow Soviet City - Valentina Tershkova First Woman Cosmonaut, Bin Thuy - Village Destroyed By Communists, Tuscaloosa - First Black Students Attend University Of Alabama, Berlin - John F. Kennedy give 'Let Them Come To Berlin' Speech.
Historical films 1963 27 min COL

BUYOUT PHOTOS - SIGNS OF DISCRIMINATION

Documenting institutional racism with discrimination signs and billboards separating the races by law.
Historical Photos 1930s - 1940s