Agnès Varda described her film as an inflammatory reportage: In the summer of 1968, the Black Panthers held several demonstrations in Oakland to raise awareness about the trial of Huey Newton (1942–1989), a co-founder of the party.

Ralph Eue

Produced by US government agencies but published against the express will of the political and intelligence service leaders of the US.

Ralph Eue

In a war, young men are recruited: even the most famous mouse in the world.

Ralph Eue

Under president Hoover, whose relief campaigns of the early 1920s made him popular, unbridled capitalism and stock exchange speculation led to a crash, dramatic wage cuts, mass unemployment and ultimately to the Great Depression. This early American social documentary shows the long march across the US to Washington to demand winter relief and unemployment insurance, undertaken by black and white delegates of the unemployed in December 1931. Since 1922, Workers’ International Relief had brought individual Russian and German films by IAH colleagues to the States. Together with “The Passaic Textile Strike” (Samuel Russak, USA 1926), this film about the hunger march constituted the beginning of a nationwide self-organised proletarian film movement – again and again the topic was hunger ...
– Alexander Schwarz

The major key of enthusiasm turns into the minor key of crushed hopes in this film, shot clandestinely and smuggled abroad.

Ralph Eue

An electrifying meditation by Jay Rosenblatt about Donald Trump's (born 1946) first year in power. A recommendation for therapy does not seem absurd. The only question is whom this recommendation should be made to.

Ralph Eue