
Please Note: There are a limited number of tickets available for this screening.
Registering for this screening will automatically register you for the Livestream Talkback with Stanley Nelson & special guests Shaka King, Ericka Huggins, Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, Laurens Grant, and moderator Tabitha Jackson on March 12 at 8pmET/5pmPT. For more details about the talkback, click here.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is also available to stream on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel and PBS Passport, a PBS member benefit within the PBS Video App.
In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.
Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the diverse group of voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it.
Featuring Kathleen Cleaver, Jamal Joseph, Ericka Huggins, and dozens of others, as well as archival footage of the late Huey P. Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution tells the story of a pivotal movement that gave rise to a new revolutionary culture in America. Their causes, with slogans like "power to the people" and "creating a better world" are relevant again in an era that has seen the rise of the "Black Lives Matter" movement and tense relations between African American communities and the police. The Black Panthers condemnations of injustice, oppression and brutality in the late '60s and early '70s reverberate again in one city after another.
- Year2015
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorStanley Nelson
- ScreenwriterStanley Nelson
- ProducerStanley Nelson, Laurens Grant
- CinematographerAntonio Rossi, Rick Butler, Allen Moore, Cliff Charles
- EditorAljernon Tunsil
Please Note: There are a limited number of tickets available for this screening.
Registering for this screening will automatically register you for the Livestream Talkback with Stanley Nelson & special guests Shaka King, Ericka Huggins, Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, Laurens Grant, and moderator Tabitha Jackson on March 12 at 8pmET/5pmPT. For more details about the talkback, click here.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is also available to stream on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel and PBS Passport, a PBS member benefit within the PBS Video App.
In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.
Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the diverse group of voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it.
Featuring Kathleen Cleaver, Jamal Joseph, Ericka Huggins, and dozens of others, as well as archival footage of the late Huey P. Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution tells the story of a pivotal movement that gave rise to a new revolutionary culture in America. Their causes, with slogans like "power to the people" and "creating a better world" are relevant again in an era that has seen the rise of the "Black Lives Matter" movement and tense relations between African American communities and the police. The Black Panthers condemnations of injustice, oppression and brutality in the late '60s and early '70s reverberate again in one city after another.
- Year2015
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorStanley Nelson
- ScreenwriterStanley Nelson
- ProducerStanley Nelson, Laurens Grant
- CinematographerAntonio Rossi, Rick Butler, Allen Moore, Cliff Charles
- EditorAljernon Tunsil