Several years ago I saw a fascinating film at the Anthology Fim Archives called "Finally Got the News" , an account of the revolutionary syndicalist movement in detroit area. Elsehwere this story was chronicles in "Detroit, I do mind dying". Thuis movie is available through first run films in New York, but at an exhorbitant price clearly designed for institutional use.

Another gem I came across in the same period is "A Luta Continua" by Robert Van Lierop, a former member of SNCC, now a lawyer in NYC who in the eraly seventies made many visits to Mozambique to chronicle the emancipation striggle against the portugese colonialists. The film is extraordinary, not least because not only Van Lierop shot the guerilla in combat, but incredibly was also able to acquire footage shot by the portugese army on the other side of the same shoot-out. Van Lierop's objectives were unabashedly partisan, so apart from crerating these materials to spread consciousness in the United States, he also trained members of Frelimo in the use of his cameras which he left there at the completion of shooting. The director mader anorther movie "O Povo Organizado", which was due to be screened in NYU but a mistake was mad ein the print, so it didn't happen. The following is from the announcement of the screenings:

Van Lierop made the films after becoming involved with the Frelimo, the revolutionary movement fighting to liberate Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. The films are regarded as having deeply impacted an era of Black independent cinema characterized by the most progressive ideas of human and personal liberation.