Black Panthers (1968)

1968 · Short film · 1 min · dir. Agnès Varda

Black is beautiful! We want to free Huey Newton!

• Documentary

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Synopsis

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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Details

Director

Agnès Varda

Writer

Agnès Varda

Cinematography

David Myers

Studio

Ciné-Tamaris

Released

1968-12-01

Running time

1 minutes

Cast & crew

• Agnès Varda Director
• Huey P. Newton
• Eldridge Cleaver
• Bobby Seale
• Kwame Ture
• RRon Dellums
• JJames Forman
• H. Rap Brown
• Kathleen Cleaver

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