SummaryThe Five Demands is a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located in the heart of Harlem. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon ... Read More
Directed By:Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss
The Five Demands
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Jul 13, 2023
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Schiller and Weiss’s direction is utilitarian, cutting together talking-head interviews with montages of the occupation set to era-appropriate protest songs. But to its credit, the lack of flashiness puts the students’ struggles for racial justice front and center, and ultimately serves to highlight a less-remembered aspect of the countercultural student movement.
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Production Company:
- Jezebel Productions (II)
Release Date:Jul 14, 2023
Duration:1 h 14 m
Rating:TV-PG
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