This month's film, *Berkeley in the Sixties*, an Academy Award nominated
documentary that took six years to make, recaptures the exhilaration and
turmoil of the student protests that shaped a generation and changed the
course of the U.S. history. Its reflective and insightful analysis of
the era -- from the HUAC hearings and civil rights sit-ins at the
beginning of the decade through he Free Speech Movement, the anti-war
protests, the growth of the counter-culture, the founding of the Black
Panther Party and the stirrings of the Women's Movement – confronts
every viewer with the questions the Sixties raised, and which remain
unanswered. It is considered by many to be the best cinematic treatment
of the Sixties yet made.

"A rigorously bright study...The film's intellect is matched by a vivid
sense of history: this really is the '60s again." -- Sheila Benson, Los
Angeles Times 

 "A lively and provocative look at protest and dissent...as vivid and
astonishing as any fiction to arrive on screen." -- David Sterrit,
Christian Science Monitor 

 "A riveting but always thoughtful and sensitive portrayal of our
history. I encourage the widest possible audience-- especially young
people--to see it."-- Mario Savio 

 "Magnificent...It is a film that deserves to be seen by anyone
interested in a better America. There are lessons here that cannot
possibly be absorbed from any other source." --Phil Elwood, San
Francisco Examiner 

 "A powerful, evocative and poignant film that brilliantly recaptures
the excitement, the aspirations and the conflict of a turbulent era.
Better than any other single film, it illuminates the complex story of
the '60s. Every teacher of 20th Century American history will want to
use it."-- William H. Chafe, Alice Baldwin Professor of History, Duke
University 

 "The best (documentary on the '60s) that's been done to date...Makes it
possible to track a complicated arc in civilization and its discontents,
underscoring the era's unequivocal triumphs as well as its confused
fade-out."--Gary Giddens, Village Voice 

 "Imaginative and realistic...As it was and as it should be
remembered."-- George McGovern