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All Power to the People!
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…
Director and cast
- Mumia Abu-Jamal as Self
- Dennis Banks as Self (archive footage)
- Marlon Brando as Self (archive footage)
- David Brinkley as Self (archive footage)
- Elaine Brown as Self (archive footage)
- H. Rap Brown as Self (archive footage)
- Kwame Ture as Self (archive footage)
- Eldridge Cleaver as Self (archive footage)
- William Colby as Self (archive footage)
- Kathleen Cleaver as Self
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