Black Panthers (1968)
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.
- Date of release
- 1968-12-01
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (102)
- Runtime
- 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Agnès Varda
Casting
- Huey P. Newton — Self
- Eldridge Cleaver — Self
- Bobby Seale — Self
- Kwame Ture — Self
- Ron Dellums — Self
- James Forman — Self
- H. Rap Brown — Self
- Kathleen Cleaver — Self
- Bill Brent — Self - Captain in the Black Panther
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: California
Black Panthers is a 1968 short documentary film directed by Agnès Varda.
Development
Varda and her crew shot the film in 1968 during her time in California while her husband Jacques Demy was in Hollywood working on Model Shop.
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