Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Μια σύντομη αναδρομή στην ζωή του Φόρεστ Γκαμπ, ενός Αμερικάνου που στη σύντομη ζωή του έχει περάσει όλες τις ιστορικές στιγμές της μεταπολεμικής Αμερικής. Η μάνα του, γνωρίζοντας ότι είναι άτομο με μειωμένη διανοητική ικανότητα, φρόντισε από μικρό να τον βοηθήσει να περάσει εύκολα την υπόλοιπη ζωή του. Με συντροφιά την φίλη του Τζένη περνάει τις κακουχίες της εφηβείας αλλά ζει και τον ανεκπλήρωτο έρωτα μαζί της. Κατάγεται στο στρατό και υπηρετεί στο Βιετνάμ, γίνεται σταρ του μπέιζμπολ αλλά και το πινγκ-πονγκ, καταφέρνει μια καλή επαγγελματική ζωή και φτάνει μέχρι και την συνάντηση του με τον Πρόεδρο των ΗΠΑ. Ωστόσο, ο ίδιος ο Φόρεστ παραμένει ανέπαφος από όλα αυτά, καθώς η ανάμνηση της Τζένη, η οποία έχει χαθεί στο κόσμο των χίπις και των ναρκωτικών, ήταν και είναι ακόμα ζωντανή μέσα του. Στο τέλος της ιστορίας, όλα θα έχουν βρει το νόημα τους...

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 — a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.

Μια ειρηνική διαμαρτυρία κατέληξε σε μια βίαιη σύγκρουση με την αστυνομία. Αυτό που ακολούθησε ήταν μία από τις πιο περιβόητες δίκες στην ιστορία.

Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during that period and includes the appearances of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.

Στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του ’70 ένας Αφροαμερικανός κι ένας Εβραίος αστυνομικός από το Κολοράντο κατορθώνουν να παρεισφρήσουν στην Κου Κλουξ Κλαν.

Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices in one of America’s most segregated cities. A timely story of collective action, The First Rainbow Coalition tells this little-known chronicle of political struggle with insight and urgency using archival footage and interviews with those who lived it.

Ένας Αφροαμερικανός πληροφοριοδότης του FBI θα εισχωρήσει στους Μαύρους Πάνθηρες του Ιλινόις, με σκοπό την παρακολούθηση του χαρισματικού ηγέτη τους Φρεντ Χάμπτον. Η ταινία βασίζεται σε αληθινά γεγονότα.

"Eyes of the Rainbow" deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she has lived for close to 15 years. In it we visit with Assata in Havana and she tells us about her history and her life in Cuba. This film is also about Assata's AfroCuban context, including the Yoruba Orisha Oya, goddess of the ancestors, of war, of the cemetery and of the rainbow.

Σε μια πρωτοποριακή θερινή κατασκήνωση, μια ομάδα εφήβων με αναπηρίες συμβάλλει στη δημιουργία ενός κινήματος και ανοίγει τον δρόμο για περισσότερη ισότητα.

The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.

Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.

Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.

Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.

Filmmaker Dan Murdoch meets America's most infamous supremacist group - the Ku Klux Klan - who say they are in the midst of a revival, with a surge in membership and cross lightings across the Deep South.

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer and sentenced to death in a trial marked by controversial prosecutorial and defense tactics and charges of racism.

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Ένας νεαρός Βάσκος ριζοσπαστικοποιείται στην Αμερική του 1960, όταν του απαγορεύουν να πάρει μέρος σε μια παρέλαση για ρατσιστικούς λόγους.