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All Power to the People!

History | Documentary

5.8

Release Date

June 1, 1996

Duration

104 min

Status

Released

Language

en

Overview

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…

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Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Dennis Banks

Self (archive footage)

Dennis Banks

Marlon Brando

Self (archive footage)

Marlon Brando

David Brinkley

Self (archive footage)

David Brinkley

Elaine Brown

Self (archive footage)

Elaine Brown

H. Rap Brown

Self (archive footage)

H. Rap Brown

Kwame Ture

Self (archive footage)

Kwame Ture

Eldridge Cleaver

Self (archive footage)

Eldridge Cleaver

William Colby

Self (archive footage)

William Colby

Kathleen Cleaver

Self

Kathleen Cleaver

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Emory Douglas

Self

Emory Douglas

Fred Hampton

Self (archive footage)

Fred Hampton

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Gordon Parks

Self

Gordon Parks

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Harry Reasoner

Self (archive footage)

Harry Reasoner

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