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Forrest Gump(1994)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 22min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
4.3/5 (with 12,194 votes)

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 5min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 618 votes)

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

BlacKkKlansman(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 15min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 3,391 votes)

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

2h 10min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 1,311 votes)

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution(2020)

1h 47min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 61 votes)

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.

Hi, Mom!(1970)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 76 votes)

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.

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song(1971)

1h 37min | Action, Drama, Crime
2.6/5 (with 42 votes)

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.

Panther(1995)

2h 4min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

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.

Black Is Beltza(2018)

1h 28min | Animation, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; but the local authorities have not allowed the appearance of all of them: due to the racial prejudices that persist in many sectors of society, the participation of two black giants has been banned.

Directed by Fermin Muguruza

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution(2015)

1h 53min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

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.

Directed by Stanley Nelson Jr.

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975(2011)

1h 40min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

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.

The 60s(1999)

2h 52min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

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.

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A Huey P. Newton Story(2001)

1h 26min | Documentary, Drama
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

A Huey P. Newton Story is a 2001 film directed by Spike Lee. It is a filmed performance of Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show of the same name. Smith sits in a chair on a stage and tells about the past, mostly dealing with Huey P. Newton's life and times.

If Not Us, Who?(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 6min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

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.

Night Catches Us(2010)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.4/5 (with 8 votes)

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.

Directed by Tanya Hamilton - With Kerry Washington

The Murder of Fred Hampton(1971)

1h 28min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

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.

Directed by Howard Alk - With Fred Hampton, Rennie Davis, Edward Hanrahan, Bobby Rush

The Panafrican Festival in Algiers(1969)

1h 50min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Directed by William Klein

In Prison My Whole Life(2008)

1h 30min | Documentary

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.

Directed by Marc Evans - With Mumia Abu-Jamal

Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther(1970)

1h 15min | History, Documentary
4.2/5 (with 3 votes)

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

Directed by William Klein

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal(2013)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Huey P. Newton: Prelude to Revolution(1971)

35min | Documentary

Hear the inside story of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers with this documentary that examines their efforts to promote the rights of African Americans as well as the organization's violent tactics, including the killing of a police officer. The film features a rare jailhouse interview with Newton discussing the role of revolution and civil disobedience, plus footage of several Panthers' bullet-riddled homes following police raids.

Dope Is Death(2020)

1h 18min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

The First Rainbow Coalition(2019)

56min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Aoki(2009)

1h 34min | Documentary

A film documenting the life of Richard Aoki, a Japanese-American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.

Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power(2004)

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living with injustice and oppression, many African-Americans advocated a non-violent resistance. Williams took a different tack, urging the oppressed to take up arms. Williams was stripped of his rank as leader of the local NAACP chapter, but he continued to encourage local African-Americans to carry weapons as a means of self-defense. Wanted on a kidnapping charge, Williams and his wife fled to Cuba. His radio show Radio Free Dixie could be heard in some parts of the United States.

KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy(2015)

57min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

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.

Eyes of the Rainbow(1997)

47min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

"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.

Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)(1968)

14min | Documentary

A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as well as an interview with Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, footage of the aftermath of the police assault against the Los Angeles Chapter headquarters, demonstrations to free Huey at Hutton Memorial Park and the Alameda County Court House and a recitation of the party's Ten-Point Platform by co-founder Bobby Seale. Newsreel's 19th, and one of their most widely distributed films, it was originally released as "Off the Pig," but has since seen release under the name Black Panther. This short film features drawings from activist artist Emory Douglas.

Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?(1998)

1h 14min | Documentary

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.