One Life: Dolores Huerta Exhibit Opening March 9, 2019 at Sacramento California Museum In July, 2015, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, opened their exhibit One Life: Dolores Huerta. Dolores spoke at the opening in Washington, DC, in front of a … Continue reading
The Story of How the Documentaries on Mississippi Voter Registration Drives Were Made. In 1963 and again in the spring of 1964, Harvey Richards made two trips into rural Mississippi to make documentaries in support of civil rights movement activists … Continue reading
Pollution and Land Filling Threaten San Francisco Bay For San Francisco Bay photo images, click here. Warning Warning (1970) tells about a time in the 1960’s of increasing water pollution when the Army Corps of Engineers projected that San Francisco … Continue reading
1978, 20 min., color, DVD Capitalism Destroys the Earth Harvey Richards first film on mining, Perch of the Devil, centered on the miner’s strike of 1960 in Butte, Montana. In the years that followed, underground mining (and its unions) were … Continue reading
1975, 28 min., color, DVD Clear Cutting Threatens the Survival of the Species Vanishing Redwoods depicts the delicate natural balance required for the growth and survival of redwood forests. Photographed in northern California and Oregon, it shows how the logging industry’s … Continue reading