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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution poster
Directed by
Stanley Nelson Jr.
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 55m
Rated
15
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 65 voters
Elsewhere
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This documentary tells the story of the Black Panther Party using archival footage and interviews with former members and FBI agents. It covers the rise and impact of the revolutionary organization.

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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is a 2015 American documentary film directed and written by Stanley Nelson Jr. The film combines archival footage and interviews with surviving Panthers and FBI agents to tell the story of the revolutionary black organization the Black Panther Party. It is Nelson Jr.'s eighth film to premiere at Sundance. The film was pitched at Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket in 2014 and is the first of a three-part series of documentary films about African-American history America Revisited. It will be followed by Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and The Slave Trade: Creating a New World. The film premiered on January 23, 2015 at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival before receiving a limited North American theatrical release on September 2, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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