Streaming: Madeline Anderson

July 13–October 31, 2020

Three documentaries by boundary-breaking filmmaker Madeline Anderson—Integration Report 1, A Tribute to Malcolm X, and I Am Somebody—deliver on-the-ground reports from the front lines of the civil rights movement and the labor struggles of the sixties.

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I Am Somebody
Integration Report 1
A Tribute to Malcolm X

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Streaming: A Tribute to Malcolm X
Madeline Anderson
United States, 1969
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July 13–October 31, 2020

Made for the groundbreaking TV series Black Journal, this short film commemorates the fourth anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination through archival footage of the civil rights leader and an interview with his widow, Betty Shabazz.
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Streaming: I Am Somebody
Madeline Anderson
United States, 1970
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July 13–October 31, 2020

Anderson’s most celebrated film documents the 1969 strike of Black hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina, a high-water mark in the alignment between labor struggles and the civil rights movement.
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Streaming: Integration Report 1
Madeline Anderson
United States, 1960
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July 13–October 31, 2020

A cinematic snapshot of the civil rights movement across the United States circa 1960, this short film documents speeches and interviews with movement leaders as well as protests around the country.
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Streaming: Madeline Anderson

July 13–October 31, 2020

Award-winning filmmaker, producer, editor, and educator Madeline Anderson was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1992. A regular filmgoer from childhood, Anderson recognized early on the potential of the medium to educate and inform. With exceptional determination, Anderson endeavored to tell the stories of people who were not represented in the films she was seeing. As she realized her vision she broke down barriers of race and gender at every turn. In 1960, encouraged by an early mentor, documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock, she produced and directed her first film, Integration Report 1. That work, a wide-ranging look at the civil rights movement, exemplifies the clarity, economy of means, and political significance that would become the hallmarks of her career. Anderson was assistant director and editor on Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World before becoming the first Black employee at the television...

In 2016 Madeline Anderson was a guest at BAMPFA as part of Afterimage: Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation, made possible by generous funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. After each of the two screenings Anderson spoke with Orlando Bagwell, then the director of the documentary program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and an accomplished writer, producer, and documentarian, lauded for works about the civil rights movement and the history of race relations in the United States. These conversations were recorded by Emiko Omori for Film Quarterly and BAMPFA and can be viewed for free on Vimeo.

—Kate MacKay, Associate Film Curator

Madeline Anderson in Conversation

Hear Madeline Anderson in a conversation with Orlando Bagwell recorded at BAMPFA in 2016.

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Thanks to Bob Hunter, Icarus Films; and Jennifer Bertani, WNET.

Streaming: Madeline Anderson

July 13–October 31, 2020

Available Films

Streaming: A Tribute to Malcolm X

Streaming: I Am Somebody

Streaming: Integration Report 1