Black Panthers
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“Black is beautiful! We want to free Huey Newton!”
A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.
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Cast
10 people
Huey P. Newton
Self
Also in
Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
World in Action
Stokely Carmichael
Himself
Eldridge Cleaver
Self
Also in
Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
Around South Central
Bobby Seale
Self
Also in
Around South Central
Rude Awakening
Kwame Ture
Self
Also in
The Fall
Tell Me Lies
Ron Dellums
Self
James Forman
Self
Also in
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
H. Rap Brown
Self
Also in
It Felt Like a Kiss
The Fall
Kathleen Cleaver
Self
Known for
Zabriskie Point
Bill Brent
Self - Captain in the Black Panther
Agnès Varda Director · David Myers Cinematographer
First release December 1, 1968 · Produced in France · Languages English, French
Production
Ciné-Tamaris
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France
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
France · December 1, 1968
TV
No release date listed for United States.
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