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Adam Clayton Powell
All Power to The People!
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times....
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which pr...
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American, and women's power movements which followed.
The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment, and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism, it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism.
Broadcast in 19 countries abroad and winner of 9 awards, the film is an important look at the turmoils of the 60's and its leading players.
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Cimarrón Spirit
En la República Dominicana, los esclavos africanos que escaparon de los señores españoles se fueran vivir con los nativos Taína o construiran sus propias comunidades en las tierras distantes de la Hispaniola, eran conocidos como "cimarrones". Nuestro documental examina el sincretismo cultural de las celebraci...
En la República Dominicana, los esclavos africanos que escaparon de los señores españoles se fueran vivir con los nativos Taína o construiran sus propias comunidades en las tierras distantes de la Hispaniola, eran conocidos como "cimarrones". Nuestro documental examina el sincretismo cultural de las celebraciones y creencias de los cimarrones, que están llenos de la magia, la fantasía y la religiosidad popular.
Na República Dominicana, os escra...
En la República Dominicana, los esclavos africanos que escaparon de los señores españoles se fueran vivir con los nativos Taína o construiran sus propias comunidades en las tierras distantes de la Hispaniola, eran conocidos como "cimarrones". Nuestro documental examina el sincretismo cultural de las celebraciones y creencias de los cimarrones, que están llenos de la magia, la fantasía y la religiosidad popular.
Na República Dominicana, os escravos africanos que fugiam dos senhores espanhóis para viver com nativos Taínos ou criar suas próprias comunidades nas remotas fronterias das terras de Hispaniola, eram conhecidos como “cimarrones” , que significa “maroons”. Nosso documentário examina o sincretismo cultural das celebrações e crençås dos cimarrons, que são repletas de mágica, fantasia e religiosidade popular.
In the Dominican Republic, as early as 1512, African slaves escaped from Spanish plantations and lived with the island’s Taíno Indians or on their own in remote Hispaniola. These people who were known as “cimarrones,”meaning “maroons,” created their own independent communities that have survived for centuries. These resilient and resourceful “outlaws” have long developed their own celebrations. This documentary examines cimarrón cultural celebrations and beliefs, in an effort to highlight the full cultural diversity of the Dominican Republic.
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The Freedom Train
The Honest Struggle
THE HONEST STRUGGLE addresses our concern about the fragility of democracy as well as dealing with equality for all races in America. Here's what it is about:
After over 25 years of incarceration, a Muslim convert. Sadiq (Darrell Davis) re-enters society in the Southside of Chicago to face the same streets that ru...
THE HONEST STRUGGLE addresses our concern about the fragility of democracy as well as dealing with equality for all races in America. Here's what it is about:
After over 25 years of incarceration, a Muslim convert. Sadiq (Darrell Davis) re-enters society in the Southside of Chicago to face the same streets that ruined his life. The film is a raw portrait of a man struggling with his past as a gang chief while trying to survive an honest life and...
THE HONEST STRUGGLE addresses our concern about the fragility of democracy as well as dealing with equality for all races in America. Here's what it is about:
After over 25 years of incarceration, a Muslim convert. Sadiq (Darrell Davis) re-enters society in the Southside of Chicago to face the same streets that ruined his life. The film is a raw portrait of a man struggling with his past as a gang chief while trying to survive an honest life and redefine himself in a world in which he feels no belonging.
Hopeful and poignant, director Justin Mashouf tells Davis’ story — from gang chief to Muslim convert — while commenting on America’s mass incarceration epidemic, and criminalization of communities of color.
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Julian Bond
Melvin and Jean: An American Story
