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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

“ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE.”

20151h 53mDocumentary

Released

March 8, 2015

7.0

TMDB Score

70% match · 68 votes

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About the Movie

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution poster

Documentary

Synopsis

The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.

DirectorStanley Nelson

Released: March 8, 2015
Runtime: 1h 53m
Status: Released
Original language: English
Studios: Firelight Films, ITVS, Independent Lens

Top Billed Cast

Kathleen Cleaver

Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

Julian Bond

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]

Jamal Joseph

Self - Black Panther Party

Blair Anderson

Self - Black Panther Party

OB

Omar Barbour

Self - Black Panther Party

Elaine Brown

Self - Black Panther Party

SB

Scot Brown

Self - Historian

William Calhoun

Self - Black Panther Party

CC

Clayborne Carson

Self - Historian

Eldridge Cleaver

Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

DC

Dennis Cunningham

Self - Attorney

ED

Emory Douglas

Self - Black Panther Party

FF

Flores Forbes

Self - Black Panther Party

SF

Sherwin Forte

Self - Black Panther Party

RF

Ronald Freeman

Self - Black Panther Party

RF

Roland Freeman

Self - Black Panther Party

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