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Pacific Street Films is a documentary film production company founded in Brooklyn, New York in 1969 by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler. They have produced more than 100 films.
In 2004 the Museum of Modern Art hosted a career retrospective on Pacific Street Films. [1] [2]
Fischler and Sucher created the documentary film The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists in 1980 about the history of Jewish Anarchists in the United States. It focuses on the Jewish Anarchist movement that arose from sweatshop workers in the United States, along with their lives as new immigrants back then and their then contemporary retirement. [3] [4] The film's raison d'etre was the 1977 coverage of the closing of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime . [5] The film features scenes from Uncle Moses (1932); a Yiddish Language film about the labour struggles within the Jewish community in America. [5] The film is noted for its use of music: collecting together various yiddish folk and political songs that interspersed around the film, including an early recording of In Ale Gasn/Daloy Politsey as a combined song. [6]
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1970 | Inciting to Riot | Student film. Covers actions of Transcendental Students. Grand prize winner at the National Student's Association Film Festival. |
| 1971 | Ipimpi | Independent documentary about police infiltration of the Black Panther Party. |
| 1971 | Surveillance: Who's Watching? | An investigation of police surveillance of political dissidents around the country. Produced for National Educational Television. (clip on YouTube) |
| 1972 | Red Squad | An Independent documentary investigating the surveillance activities of the New York City Police Department and the FBI. |
| 1974 | Frame-up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre | Investigative documentary on the wrongful imprisonment of black activist bookstore owner Martin Sostre. |
| 1975 | The Marijuana Revolution | Thirty-minute investigative documentary. Produced for WNBC-TV. |
| 1975 | Politics and Police in Stamford | Thirty-minute investigative documentary. Produced for WNBC-TV. |
| 1977 | Voices From Within | A documentary produced in collaboration with a group of long-term women inmates at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York. Funded by the NYS Council on the Arts. |
| 1977 | The Grand Jury: An Institution Under Fire | An investigation of grand jury abuse. Broadcast on PBS. |
| 1980 | Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists | Documentary on the last survivors of the Jewish Anarchist movement and the final year of the long-running Yiddish Anarchist newspaper, Fraye Arbeter Shtime . Supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and CPB. Broadcast on PBS. |
| 1981 | Anarchism in America | Feature-length documentary on anarchism. [7] |
| 1983 | The Cancer War | An investigation into the politics of cancer research. Broadcast on PBS. |
| 1983 | I Promise To Remember: Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers | The rise and fall of Rock ‘n Roll’s first cross-over group. Broadcast on PBS. |
| 1984 | Man's Best Friends | A one-hour investigation of the use and abuse of animals in medical experiments and product testing. Produced for Frontline. Broadcast on PBS. |
| 1984 | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: A Special Gift | A portrait of the Nobel laureate. Produced for the National Foundation for Cancer Research. |
| 1985 - 1988 | Salute to Newark Take Me Back To Dear Old Newark | Produced for WNET's Metropolitan Division. Eight 30-second spots and a 30-minute historical documentary. |
| 1988 | First City | Produced segments for this WNYC magazine series on New York City: "Tugs," "Brooklyn Bridge," "Homeless," "Arson Squad," "Parking" |
| 1989 | United Nations Peacekeeping | Educational film produced for the United Nations. |
| 1990 | Blue Helmets: The Story of U. N. Peacekeeping | A look at the work of UN Peacekeepers around the world. Narrated by Jesse Jackson. 90-minute PBS Special. |
| 1990 | Martin Scorsese Directs | Profile of director Martin Scorsese on the set of Goodfellas . Produced for American Masters. Broadcast on PBS. |
| 1991 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates | One hour documentary on the students involved in the annual New York City debate competition. Broadcast on Thirteen/WNET in June 1991. |
| 1991 | Jessica Lange: It's Only Make-Believe | Profile of the actress on the set of Cape Fear . Produced for HBO/Cinemax. |
| 1992 | Oliver Stone: Inside/Out | Feature length profile of director Oliver Stone. Produced for Showtime and the BBC. |
| 1992 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates | One hour documentary on the students involved in the annual New York City debate competition. Broadcast on Thirteen/WNET in June 1992. |
| 1993 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates | One hour documentary on the students involved in the annual New York City debate competition. Broadcast on Thirteen/WNET. |
| 1993 | Peacemaking | Educational program produced for the United Nations. |
| 1993 | Calculating Change | Examination of the campaign to overhaul math and science education in the US Hosted by Al Roker. Broadcast on PBS. Produced for the Urban League and Thirteen/WNET. |
| 1995 | Schools For Sale: Advertising in the Classroom | A critical look at Channel One News, the for-profit service that brings advertising into the classroom under the guise of educational programming. Hosted by Lewis Black. Produced for the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University. |
| 1995 | In Search of Peace | Documentary special on the relationship of the United States and the United Nations, on the world organization's 50th anniversary. Narrated by Paul Newman. Broadcast on the Turner Broadcasting System. |
| 1995 | To The Ends of The Earth | A history of the American Museum of Natural History's fossil-hunting expeditions. Part of the museum's permanent display. |
| 1996 | Troubled Waters, Vanishing Treasures | Produced for the American Museum of Natural History’s Endangered Species installation. |
| 1996 | Final Take: The Fertility Scandal | An investigation of the scandal at the University of California at Irvine Fertility Center, involving the illegal use of unapproved fertility drugs and the theft of eggs and embryos from patients. Broadcast on Lifetime Television. |
| 1996 | Sidney Lumet: An American Director | A portrait of film director Sidney Lumet, photographed during the production of Night Falls on Manhattan . Produced for Paramount Pictures and Spelling Entertainment. |
| 1998 | Intimate Portrait: Jessica Lange | Documentary profile of Jessica Lange. Broadcast on Lifetime Television. |
| 1998 | Intimate Portrait: Pamela Harriman | Documentary profile on the life Pamela Harriman, socialite and former Ambassador to France. Broadcast October 1998 on Lifetime Television. |
| 1998 | The Warrior Tradition | Five one-hour documentaries highlighting warrior cultures throughout history: Samurai, Shogun, The French Foreign Legion, The Gurkhas and The Green Berets. History Channel broadcast. |
| 1998 | The Other Half ... Revisited | Documentary comparing social conditions today with those that Jacob Riis documented in 1890 in his famous work, How the Other Half Lives . Funded by the Ford Foundation and CPB. Broadcast on WNET-TV. |
| 1999 | Exploring the World of Music | A 12-part television series, with a study guide and 3-set audio CD package, highlighting the principles of music, seen through a world music perspective. An international co-production with primary support from the Annenberg Project of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. |
| 1999 | Crime Stories | Three one-hour documentaries about notable trials from the past: The Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case, Richard Speck: Born to Raise Hell, and The Trial of the Chicago 8. Broadcast on Court TV. |
| 1999 | From Swastika to Jim Crow | Independent documentary exploring the little-known story of Jewish refugee scholars teaching at historically black colleges before and during the Second World War. PBS broadcast 2001. |
| 2000 | Martial Arts: The Real Story | A two-hour special that explores a little-known world of secret martial techniques. From the mist shrouded hills of China to small backwater villages in Southern India, fighting techniques have been developed that require silent devotion, zealous commitment and above all, secrecy. Broadcast on The Learning Channel and ITV (UK). |
| 2001 | Speed Traps | This fast-paced, high-energy show takes an in-depth look at the history and technology of speed detection, and the equally sophisticated attempts at speed detection avoidance. Broadcast on The Learning Channel. |
| 2002 | Bravo Profile Nick Nolte | One hour documentary portrait of actor Nick Nolte. |
| 2002 | GoodFellas and JFK | Two productions for the AMC's "Back Story" series — Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas," and Oliver Stone's "JFK." The programs take an intimate look at the story behind the story, revealing how these groundbreaking films struck a chord with audiences worldwide. |
| 2002 | The Economics Classroom | A teacher development workshop consisting of eight one-hour videos, website and educational materials. For Annenberg/CPB. |
| 2004 | City of Refuge | Installation piece produced for the Museum of Jewish Heritage to accompany an exhibition about Jewish immigration to New York City. |
| 2005 | Building Wealth and Risky Business | A series of educational videotapes designed to teach the fundamentals of financial literacy to High School and College students. Produced in collaboration with the National Council on Economic Education. |
| 2006 | In Debt We Trust | A Globalvision Production dealing with the widespread problem of why Americans are being caught up in the “debt trap” Joel Sucher produced the segment dealing with personal bankruptcy. |
Sam Dolgoff was an anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist from Russia who grew up, lived and was active in the United States.
Paul Avrich was an American historian specialising in the 19th and early 20th-century anarchist movement in Russia and the United States. He taught at Queens College, City University of New York, for his entire career, from 1961 to his retirement as distinguished professor of history in 1999. He wrote ten books, mostly about anarchism, including topics such as the 1886 Haymarket Riot, the 1921 Sacco and Vanzetti case, the 1921 Kronstadt naval base rebellion, and an oral history of the movement.
Anarchists have traditionally been skeptical of or vehemently opposed to organized religion. Nevertheless, some anarchists have provided religious interpretations and approaches to anarchism, including the idea that the glorification of the state is a form of sinful idolatry.
Anarchism has been an undercurrent in the politics of Palestine and Israel for over a century. The anarchist ideology arrived in Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century, carried by a big wave of emigrants from Eastern Europe. The ideas of Peter Kropotkin and Leo Tolstoy had remarkable influence on famous exponents of some Left Zionists. Anarchists organized themselves across Israel and Palestine, and influenced the worker movement in Israel. Anarchists often call for a zero state solution, to the Palestinian Israeli conflict, in reference to a complete abolition of the states of Israel and Palestine.
Saul Yanovsky was an American anarchist and journalist.
"In the Salty Sea", known simply as "To the Bund", is a Yiddish poem written by S. Ansky in 1901 and published in Der Arbeyter a year later. It became a popular Yiddish song when music was added to it. While it is unclear who composed the music to the song, the first published version was printed in 1919 by Yankev Glatshteyn in Warsaw, in the book Freiheits Lieder. The poem and song is dedicated to the socialist General Jewish Labour Bund.
The Jewish left consists of Jews who identify with, or support, left-wing or left-liberal causes, consciously as Jews, either as individuals or through organizations. There is no one organization or movement which constitutes the Jewish left, however. Jews have been major forces in the history of the labor movement, the settlement house movement, the women's rights movement, anti-racist and anti-colonialist work, and anti-fascist and anti-capitalist organizations of many forms in Europe, the United States, Australia, Algeria, Iraq, Ethiopia, South Africa, and modern-day Israel. Jews have a history of involvement in anarchism, socialism, Marxism, and Western liberalism. Although the expression "on the left" covers a range of politics, many well-known figures "on the left" have been of Jews who were born into Jewish families and have various degrees of connection to Jewish communities, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, or the Jewish religion in its many variants.
Johann Rudolf Rocker was a German anarchist writer and activist. He was born in Mainz to an artisan family.
Anarchist Portraits is a 1988 history book by Paul Avrich about the lives and personalities of multiple prominent and inconspicuous anarchists.
Freie Arbeiter Stimme was a Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper published from New York City's Lower East Side between 1890 and 1977. It was among the world's longest running anarchist journals, and the primary organ of the Jewish anarchist movement in the United States; at the time that it ceased publication it was the world's oldest Yiddish newspaper. Historian of anarchism Paul Avrich described the paper as playing a vital role in Jewish–American labor history and upholding a high literary standard, having published the most lauded writers and poets in Yiddish radicalism. The paper's editors were major figures in the Jewish–American anarchist movement: David Edelstadt, Saul Yanovsky, Joseph Cohen, Hillel Solotaroff, Roman Lewis, and Moshe Katz.
The Pioneers of Liberty was the first Jewish anarchist organization in the United States. The group was known for its Yiddish-language publications and antireligious social events, such as Yom Kippur balls. Their club's model was replicated in major cities of the Eastern seaboard.
Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America is a book by historian Kenyon Zimmer that covers the anarchist ideology practiced by Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City, San Francisco, and Paterson, New Jersey, at the turn of the 20th century. The book was published by University of Illinois Press in 2015.
Moshe Katz (1864–1941) was an American Jewish editor and activist. He was a central figure of New York City's Jewish anarchist circle at the turn of the century, participating with the Pioneers of Liberty and giving speeches. He briefly edited the Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime in the 1890s and contributed to other Yiddish-language periodicals. Katz translated multiple anarchist classics into Yiddish: Conquest of Bread, Moribund Society and Anarchy, and Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. He grew towards Labor Zionism after the 1903 anti-Jewish Kishinev pogrom and eventually moved to Philadelphia to launch and edit a Yiddish daily periodical, Di Yiddishe velt, for twenty years beginning in 1914. Katz brought his New York literary contacts to the Philadelphia paper with content that rivaled the Yiddish periodicals of New York.
Jacob Abraham Maryson (1866–1941) was a Jewish–American anarchist, doctor, essayist and Yiddish translator. Maryson was among the few Pioneers of Liberty who could write in English. He was among the Pioneers who launched the Varhayt in 1889, the first American anarchist periodical in Yiddish.
Sigismund Danielewicz (1847–1927) was a Polish-born labor organizer in the United States and Hawaii, known for his advocacy against anti-Chinese sentiment in the American labor movement. He also worked as an anarchist writer and publisher.
The Worker's Friend Group was a Jewish anarchist group active in London's East End in the early 1900s. Associated with the Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper Arbeter Fraint and centered around the German emigre anarchist Rudolf Rocker, the group ran a social center known as the Worker's Friend Club and Institute and Jubilee Street Club from 1906 to 1915. The club became a fixture in London's Jewish social community and was influential on the area's artists and writers. Its cultural programming included concerts, performances, and lectures on political, scientific, and literary topics. The newspaper, begun as a Jewish socialist periodical, grew towards anarchism with the arrival of Saul Yanovsky. It was the most popular radical Yiddish-language newspaper in London by 1904 and reached a peak circulation at 5,000 weekly copies the next year. The Arbeter Fraint ran from 1885 to 1915. The group's operations declined following the British entry into World War I, as rising anti-German sentiment and Rocker's anti-war beliefs culminated in his detention, never to return to the town.
Andrew Klemencic was a Slovene anarchist and union organizer active in Europe, the United States and the Republic of Hawaii. He contributed to various anarchist publications throughout his life and was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Daloy Politsey, also known as In Ale Gasn is a Yiddish-language anti-authoritarian protest song. The modern commonly known & recorded version of the song is actually a combination of two different protest songs from the late 19th and early 20th century Russian Empire; Hey Hey Daloy Politsey and In Ale Gasn respectively. The modern song was recorded in 1972 by the Yiddish Youth Ensemble on their album of Yiddish Songs of Work and Struggle. The recording later appeared in the soundtrack for the documentary film Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists. As such the song is often rendered as In Ale Gasn/Daloy Politsey to highlight this combination. The two songs were historically associated with the Bundist movement along with the Jewish anarchist movement. The two songs were sung during the Russian revolutions as a rallying cry for Revolutionary Socialist and Anarchist Jews.
Vakht Oyf, or Vi lang, o vi lang, is a Yiddish-language song associated with the Bundist and Jewish Anarchist movements written by David Edelstadt. The song is featured in the film Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists.
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