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Berkeley in the Sixties is a 1990 documentary film by Mark Kitchell. 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, the development of the counterculture of the 1960s in Berkeley, California, and ending with People's Park in 1969. 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. The film is dedicated to Fred Cody, founder of Cody's Books. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Original Release
04/23/1990
US Release
04/23/1990
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Jentri Anders | Self |
| Joan Baez | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Frank Bardacke | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Stokely Carmichael | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| John De Bonis | Self |
| Hardy Frye | Self |
| John Gage | Self |
| Allen Ginsberg | Self |
| Todd Gitlin | Self |
| Jackie Goldberg | Self |
Directors
Writers
Susan Griffin, Mark Kitchell, Stephen Most
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Jentri Anders | Self |
| Joan Baez | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Frank Bardacke | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Stokely Carmichael | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| John De Bonis | Self |
| Hardy Frye | Self |
| John Gage | Self |
| Allen Ginsberg | Self |
| Todd Gitlin | Self |
| Jackie Goldberg | Self |
| Grateful Dead | Themselves |
| Susan Griffin | Narrator / Self / Self - Narrator |
| David Hilliard | Self |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Self |
| Clark Kerr | Self |
| Martin Luther King | Self |
| Barry Melton | Self |
| Mike Miller | Self |
| Robert Mitchum | Self |
| Suzy Nelson | Self |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Marc Weiss | Executive Producer |
| Mark Kitchell | Producer |
| Bea Andrade | Producer |
| Mary Borrelli | Producer |
| Marcia Jarmel | Producer |
| Kevin Pina | Producer |
| Frances Politeo | Producer |
Editors
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1991 | Oscar | Best Documentary, Features | Nominated |
