Berkeley in the Sixties is a 1990 documentary film by Mark Kitchell.

[1][2] The film highlights the origins of the Free Speech Movement beginning with the May 1960 House Un-American Activities Committee hearings at San Francisco City Hall,[3] the development of the counterculture of the 1960s in Berkeley, California, and ending with People's Park in 1969.

[4] The film features 15 student activists and archival footage of Mario Savio, Todd Gitlin, Joan Baez, the Rev.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Allen Ginsberg, Gov.

[7] Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly gave it a grade of "A−", writing "The film doesn’t shrink from saying that many of the ’60s social-protest movements went too far.