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1968

Black Panthers

Directed by Agnès Varda
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.

Duration

0h 28m

Released

December 1, 1968

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  • Huey P. Newton
  • Eldridge Cleaver
  • Bobby Seale
  • Kwame Ture
  • Ron Dellums
  • James Forman
  • H. Rap Brown
  • Kathleen Cleaver
  • Bill Brent

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