Film
Witness to
Revolution: The Story of Anna Louise Strong
Anna
Louise Strong was one of the leaders of the Seattle General Strike in 1919 and
an early advocate of communism. Watch a 4-minute video
excerpt from the film
WITNESS
TO REVOLUTION: The
Story of Anna Louise Strong
The video contains the only known footage of the General Strike.
Produced and directed by Lucy Ostrander and used here with her permission, the
excerpt is part of the award winning documentary film biography of Anna Louise
Strong who left Seattle to live and write about the Soviet Union and the
People's Republic of China. Click the logo (right) to see the excerpt.
Witness to Revolution is a 27 minute film (on
VHS) that portrays author and labor activist, Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970)
who, as a partisan reporter, covered the major political revolutions of the 20th
century - Russia, Spain and China.For more information about the film and how to purchase
it see the Lucy Ostrander's Witness to Revolution
website.
“Witness to Revolution is a superb story…it’s an
excellent summing-up of a long and influential career, focusing mostly on
Strong’s beginnings in Seattle and her reporting on the Seattle General Strike
in 1919 and the Everett Massacre…Ostrander creates a sense of Seattle’s
radical past that makes it easy to understand why this state was once known as
“the soviet of Washington.””
-John Hartl The Seattle Times
