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...
Στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του ’70 ένας Αφροαμερικανός κι ένας Εβραίος αστυνομικός από το Κολοράντο κατορθώνουν να παρεισφρήσουν στην Κου Κλουξ Κλαν.
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.
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.
Μια ειρηνική διαμαρτυρία κατέληξε σε μια βίαιη σύγκρουση με την αστυνομία. Αυτό που ακολούθησε ήταν μία από τις πιο περιβόητες δίκες στην ιστορία.
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.
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.
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Σε μια πρωτοποριακή θερινή κατασκήνωση, μια ομάδα εφήβων με αναπηρίες συμβάλλει στη δημιουργία ενός κινήματος και ανοίγει τον δρόμο για περισσότερη ισότητα.
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
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.
After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. Interfering with Marcus's good intentions are the neighborhood's continuing racial and social conflicts, as well as old enemies and friends -- both with scores to settle.
Ένας νεαρός Βάσκος ριζοσπαστικοποιείται στην Αμερική του 1960, όταν του απαγορεύουν να πάρει μέρος σε μια παρέλαση για ρατσιστικούς λόγους.
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
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.
A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their lives forever. This film is about Tommie Smith and John Carlos' protest at the 1968 Olympics.
William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
A film documenting the life of Richard Aoki, a Japanese-American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.
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.