This video has been Banned In The United States for purchase of VHS or DVD. Everything you see on the web streaming this video are just copies from people recording off the VCR. Here for the first time, you are watching a HQ none VHS version of this Film Description: All Power To The People! - The Black Panther Party & Beyond (Lee Lew Lee, 1996)(HQ) A Documentary Film by Lee Lou Lee? 115 Minutes. On Racism, the Panthers, and the Indigenous People's Movement Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race conflict in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the mid 1960's. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Party soon embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and the Black, Brown and Red power movements which it helped pioneer. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for it criticizes the megalomania, corruption, and narcissism of some Party leaders, while it praises their courage and idealism. All Power to the People! examines problems of race, poverty, dissent, and the universal conflict of the haves versus the have nots. U.S. government documents, rare news clips, and interviews with both ex-activists and former FBI/CIA officers provide deep insight into the bloody conflict between political dissent and governmental authority in the U.S. of the 60s and 70s. The Party struck fear in the hearts of the white capitalist power structure, which feared it as a terrorist group. During the Nixon years, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, with the cooperation of the CIA, used all means at their disposal to infiltrate and derail the Black Power movement. Methods of state repression included assassination, frame-ups, dirty tricks and black propaganda. Working as a TV cameraman during the 1992 L.A. riots, Lee Lew-Lee became curious about the history of American race relations and the Black Panther Party (founded in Oakland in 1967). His research led to All Power to the People. The film combines archival footage with interviews from ex-CIA officer Philip Agee, journalist/filmmaker Gordon Parks, and former FBI Special Agent Wesley Swearingen to various Panthers and political radicals. The film covers slavery, civil-rights activists and assassinations in the '60s, and it explores methods used by police, the FBI, and the CIA to divide and destroy the key figures in the Black Panther Party. The film extends beyond the Panther history to more recent times, covering Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies and the failure of the War Against Drugs. Witnesses include not only Party veterans and other Black Power pioneers and political prisoners such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Dr. Mutulu Skakur and Dhoruba Bin Wahad, but also "establishment" figures like former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Edward Agee, and retired FBI agents. Whether or not one is sympathetic to the Black Panthers, the film is an important historic look at the political and racial turmoils of the 1960s and an up-close look at the leading players. Globally acclaimed as being the most accurate depiction of the goals, aspirations, and ultimate repression of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, All Power to the People! is a gripping, timeless news documentary. Broadcast in 19 countries abroad and winner of 9 awards, the film is an important look at the turmoils of the '60s and its leading players. Production An Electronic News Group production in association with ZDF. Produced by Lee Lew-Lee. Co-producers, Kristin Bell, Nico Panigutti. Crew Produced, Directed by Lee Lew-Lee. Camera (color/B&W;, video-to-16mm), Lew-Lee; Editor, Ruby Yang; Additional Editing, Karen Segal, Martha Pike; Film Licensor, Ruthie Sakhelm; Music supervisor, Kraig Pullen Kilby; Sound, Mitch Dorf. A potent indictment, "All Power to the People!" seeks both to recap the Black Panther Party's oft-distorted history and to expose apparent governmental plots that hastened its demise (ditto that of other late-'60s/early-'70s U.S. "extremist" groups). Dennis Harvey Film Critic AWARDS: Best Producer, Historical, National Black Prog. Consortium Awards, 1998 Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 1998 Paul Robeson Award for Excellence, Newark Black Film Festival, 1997 "The 60's as reported by a gifted, radical journalist of color." --The L.A. Times "A very important film!" --Haskell Wexler, cinematographer "Best film that I've ever seen on the 60's movement." --Cornel West Quotes: "This video is highly recommended for middle school through adult audiences." "’MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship Be Sure to leave a review after watching here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210482

• published: 02 Sep 2015
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