The Five Demands

Name: The Five Demands
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 14, 2023
Duration: 74 min
Cast: Charles Powell, Dorothy Randall Gray, Francee Covington, Henry Arce

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Icarus Films | Release Date: July 14, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Charles Powell, Dorothy Randall Gray, Francee Covington, Henry Arce

Summary: The 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 strikeThe 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 turned into an uprising, leading to the extended occupation of the campus, classes being canceled, students being arrested, and the resignation of the college president. Through archival footage and modern-day interviews, we follow the students’ struggle against the institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from this and other public universities. The Five Demands revisits the untold story of this explosive student takeover, and proves that a handful of ordinary citizens can band together to take action and effect meaningful change. [Icarus Films]… Expand

Director: Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 74 min

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Claire Shaffer

Jul 13, 2023

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. Read full review

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