The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015The 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.
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Kathleen Cleaver
as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Julian Bond
as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]
Jamal Joseph
as Self - Black Panther Party
Blair Anderson
as Self - Black Panther Party
Omar Barbour
as Self - Black Panther Party
Elaine Brown
as Self - Black Panther Party
Scot Brown
as Self - Historian
William Calhoun
as Self - Black Panther Party
Clayborne Carson
as Self - Historian
Eldridge Cleaver
as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Dennis Cunningham
as Self - Attorney
Emory Douglas
as Self - Black Panther Party
Flores Forbes
as Self - Black Panther Party
Sherwin Forte
as Self - Black Panther Party
Ronald Freeman
as Self - Black Panther Party
Roland Freeman
as Self - Black Panther Party
Beverly Gage
as Self - Historian
Ray Gaul
as Self - Oakland Police Department
Jeff Haas
as Self - Attorney
Fred Hampton
as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Edward Hanrahan
as Self - State's Attorney (archive footage) (as Edward V. Hanrahan)
Elbert Howard
as Self - Black Panther Party (as Elbert 'Big Man' Howard)
Ericka Huggins
as Self - Black Panther Party
Phyllis Jackson
as Self - Black Panther Party
Deborah Johnson
as Self - Black Panther Party (as Akua Njeri [Deborah Johnson])
Mike Klonsky
as Self - Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]
Mark Kurlansky
as Self - Writer
Bob Lee
as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
David Lemieux
as Self - Black Panther Party
Tarika Lewis
as Self - Black Panther Party
Felipe Luciano
as Self - Young Lords
Ron McCarthy
as Self - Los Angeles Police Department