Black Panthers

Black Panthers

Black is beautiful! We want to free Huey Newton!

Directed by Agnès Varda

Produced by Ciné-Tamaris

196828 min7.1 / 10

A documentary capturing the Black Panthers' grassroots organizing and activism in 1968, centered on their campaign to free Huey Newton and assert Black political power.

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.

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