Berkeley in the Sixties

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, 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.{{cite news | last = Maslin | first = Jane | title = Berkeley: Tie-Dye to Just Ties | work = Review/Film | publisher = The New York Times | date = 1990-09-26 | url = https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CEFDC1F30F935A1575AC0A966958260 | access-date = 2008-03-10}} 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.

Rotten Tomatoes assigned the film an approval rating of 100%, based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10.{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/berkeley_in_the_sixties |title=Berkeley in the Sixties (1990) |website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango Media|access-date=May 10, 2022}} Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly gave it a grade of "A−", writing "The film doesn’t 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."{{cite magazine |date=November 30, 1990 |title=Berkeley in the Sixties |url=https://ew.com/article/1990/11/30/berkeley-sixties-2/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=May 19, 2020 }}

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.

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.

• 1990 in film
• Baby Boomers
• Generation Gap

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite journal | last = Davis | first = R.G. | title = Berkeley in the Sixties | journal = Film Quarterly | volume = 44 | issue = 1 | pages = 58 | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley, California | date = Fall 1990 | url =http://fq.ucpress.edu/content/44/1/58.full.pdf | doi = 10.1525/fq.1990.44.1.04a00110 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Porton | first = R. | title = Berkeley in the Sixties | journal = Cineaste | volume = 18 | issue = 2 | pages = 31–32 | publisher = Cineaste Publishers, Inc. | location = New York City | year = 1991 }}

• [http://newsreel.org/video/BERKELEY-IN-THE-SIXTIES Official site] and [http://www.newsreel.org/transcripts/Berkeley-in-the-60s-transcript.pdf transcript]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20190831073650/http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/berkeleyinthesixties/ Berkeley in the Sixties] at POV
• {{IMDb title|0099121|Berkeley in the Sixties}}
• [https://vimeo.com/75881740 Excerpt]

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