Peace and Anti-War Films

Women for Peace and Protests Against Nuclear Testing 1960-62

Harvey Richards gave his support to the peace movement in California during the 1960s when protests against nuclear testing and the escalating war in Vietnam were destroying the silence of the 1950s.

He documented the founding of Women for Peace in his film of the same name (Women for Peace). He also filmed peace actions against nuclear testing (Everyman).

Protests against the War in Vietnam 1964-72

Richards went on to document the early opposition to the Vietnam war (Hot Damn!). He filmed the anti-draft demonstrations in Oakland in 1967, and the massive peace marches in Oakland and San Francisco in 1969 and 1970 (Decision in the Streets, No Greater Cause).

A Visit to the Soviet Union

As part of his interests in supporting the peace movement and opposing the Cold War, Richards and his wife Alice made two films in the Soviet Union in 1961 focusing on women and children in a socialist society (A Visit to the Soviet Union, Part 1: Women of Russia, and Part 2: Far From Moscow).


© Paul Richards
Clip of Joan Baez getting arrested from No Greater Cause

Photographs

During all of these large demonstrations, as well as during many other smaller ones, Richards took high quality still photos. See the galleries below and the photographs page.

Cover of Critical Focus
Critical Focus:
The Black and White
Photographs of
Harvey Wilson Richards

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