The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Released
March 8, 2015
Runtime: 1h 53m
The 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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Cast & Crew
Kathleen Cleaver
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Julian Bond
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]
Jamal Joseph
Self - Black Panther Party
Blair Anderson
Self - Black Panther Party
- OB
Omar Barbour
Self - Black Panther Party
Elaine Brown
Self - Black Panther Party
- SB
Scot Brown
Self - Historian
William Calhoun
Self - Black Panther Party
- CC
Clayborne Carson
Self - Historian
Eldridge Cleaver
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
- DC
Dennis Cunningham
Self - Attorney
- ED
Emory Douglas
Self - Black Panther Party
- FF
Flores Forbes
Self - Black Panther Party
- SF
Sherwin Forte
Self - Black Panther Party
- RF
Ronald Freeman
Self - Black Panther Party
- RF
Roland Freeman
Self - Black Panther Party
- BG
Beverly Gage
Self - Historian
- RG
Ray Gaul
Self - Oakland Police Department
Stanley Nelson
Director
Stanley Nelson
Writer
Media
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