Black Panthers

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.

Director: Agnès Varda

Cast: Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Kwame Ture, Ron Dellums, James Forman, H. Rap Brown, Kathleen Cleaver

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.