Dan Drasin's documentary short, shot in a single afternoon in 1961, is often cited as the first major social protest film of the Sixties. When 19-year-old Drasin and his friends joined folk singers and protesters in Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park, they confronted NYC authorities to protest the cancellation of a standing permit to gather and sing in the park on Sundays. Here are the first signs of the political, racial and cultural issues that would soon erupt during the decade.
Daniel Drasin
Director
McQueen74%
Public Speaking70%
Sidney70%
Sherman's March67%
A Plastic Ocean75%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
180° South72%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
The Class of ‘9271%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me85%
Fuck64%
Black Sheep72%
Night Will Fall76%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Directed by John Ford70%
Room 23761%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Extremis69%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
