All Power to the People!
- Released on
- Runtime
- 104 mins
Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the history of race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s and 70s. Covering the history of slavery, civil-rights activists, political assassinations and exploring the methods used to divide and destroy key figures of movements by government forces, the film then contrasts into Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies and the failure of the “War on Drugs”, forming a comprehensive view of the goals, aspirations and ultimate demise of the Civil Rights Movement…
Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the history of race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s and 70s. Covering the history of slavery, civil-rights activists, political assassinations and exploring the methods used to divide and destroy key figures of movements by government forces, the film then contrasts into Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies and the failure of the “War on Drugs”, forming a comprehensive view of the goals, aspirations and ultimate demise of the Civil Rights Movement…
Cast
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Dennis Banks
- Marlon Brando
- David Brinkley
- Elaine Brown
- H. Rap Brown
- Kwame Ture
- Eldridge Cleaver
- William Colby
- Kathleen Cleaver
- Walter Cronkite
- Emory Douglas
- Fred Hampton
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Richard Nixon
- Gordon Parks
- Ronald Reagan
- Harry Reasoner
Director
- Lee Lew Lee
