Teach Our Children
Overview
This film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film questions the reactions of prison warden Oswald, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and President Nixon, as well as the death of 31 inmates and prison guards from bullets fired by the National Guard. Through on-site footage taken during and following the rebellion, and follow-up interviews with inmates, this film relates a powerful message concerning prisoner's rights and provides an important historical document. A Third World Newsreel production about the 1971 rebellion at Attica State Prison.
Release date
02/01/1972
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Exodus
Criminal Injustice: Death and Politics at Attica
Halfway Home: A Father's Story
The House of the Dead
Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars
La fuga
Attica
Make Him Known
Hell
Ghosts of Attica
Jelly Roll: Save Me
Being Michelle
The Prisoner of the Iron Bars
Prison and Time
The Feminist on Cellblock Y
Dancing in A-Yard
Safe Place
To Be
North by Current
1275 Days