Black Panthers (1968)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 28 minuten
Country:
France / United States
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Stars: Huey P. Newton, H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael
IMDb score:
7,4 (3.036)
Releasedate: 1 December 1968
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Black Panthers plot
"Black is beautiful! We want to free Huey Newton!"
In the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California, the Black Panthers Party organized several protest rallies. Their goal was to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and managed to attract the attention of America. This documentary shows the protests and interviews with the participants.
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Roger Thornhill
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Now also (without subtitles) on YouTube. Varda and her camera crew are present at a "political rally" in 1968 in Oakland, California (400,000 inhabitants of which 32% black), where the release is demanded of Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers, who was arrested during a police check in which an officer was shot. The activists claim that Newton is innocent, and from prison the detainee is also allowed to have his say; Varda only records, but her sympathies clearly lie with the activists, as evidenced by the way in which they are allowed to argue their positions without opposition. (Among those present is Eldridge Cleaver, author of the controversial Soul on ice.) It may be a pity that no one from the white establishment is given a voice, but ultimately that is not the job of a documentary maker; more interesting is the question of what has changed for the black community 57 years later.
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