Peace and Anti-War Films

Women for Peace

1962, 24 min., black/white, DVD

Women for Peace covers the founding of the organization and many of the early peace demonstrations that it sponsored.

With narration by Frances Herring, a founder of Women for Peace, the film features the 1961 and 1962 anti-nuclear demonstrations in California and Nevada.

Topics: anti-nuclear protests, war resistance, ban the bomb, nuclear testing, Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Test Site, 1960s.

Other peace and anti-war films:

"No Nukes: Women for Peace 1961" from Women for Peace

Women Strike for Peace at Nevada Test Site
Women Strike for Peace at Nevada Test Site
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Women for Peace

All photos © Paul Richards

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

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