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Two fascinating documentaries are presented on one DVD. Both are the work of Emmy and Guggenheim Award-winning filmmakers, Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher. In the first, ""Anarchism in America"", the two take a road trip to map anarchism as a distinctly American tradition, interviewing a diverse cast of characters: from ""ordinary"" truckers and farmers to famous anarchists like Kenneth Rexroth, Ursula LeGuin, and Murray Bookchin. The second, ""Free Voice of Labor"", traces the history of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper of that name - publishing its final issue after 87 years - as told by its now elderly, but decidedly unbowed staff. Also included are first hand accounts of the labour organising, propaganda, educational experiments, and monumental contributions from these cherished, if largely unsung, heroes of the American anarchist movement. It presents news-reel footage of key figures in the history of American anarchism, among them are Sacco and Vanzetti, and Emma Goldman.

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Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher, Brooklyn neighbors, founded Pacific Street Films in 1969 while students at NYU where they studied under Martin Scorsese. They began filming undercover agents at protest rallies, which resulted in their first documentary Red Squad completed in 1971. Since then they have produced a series of non-fiction films that illuminate and explore modern American social history.

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