Buffalo Soldiers: African-Americans and US Militarism
Wednesday August 5th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014
The second of the major themes for this summer's "Visual Liberation" film series at the Brecht Forum will be "Black August," a focus on African American resistance. The first of these programs, BUFFALO SOLDIERS, looks at the relationship between African Americans and US military interests. The titles and dates alone summarize the films and their contexts - the first, a war-time propaganda film praising African American participation in the war effort; the latter, a documentary of a street rally in Harlem in 1967 against the Vietnam War.
BLACK AUGUST:
--The Negro Soldier - Stuart Heisler, 1944, 43 minutes
--No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger - David Loeb Weiss, 1968, 68 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes | Digital Projection
Special thanks to Vivian Gilbert-Strell.
(The Weiss film is available from The Cinema Guild.)