All Power to the People!

All Power to the People!

104 mins | Documentary, History | June 1, 1996

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…

All Power to the People!

104 mins | Documentary, History | June 1, 1996

All Power to the People!
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…
IMDb rating 8.0
Producers
Original title All Power to the People!
Directors Lee Lew Lee
Writers

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)

Stokely Carmichael

as Self (archive footage)

Eldridge Cleaver

as Self (archive footage)

William Colby

as Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

as Self (archive footage)

Emory Douglas

as Self

Fred Hampton

as Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Gordon Parks

as Self

Ronald Reagan

as Self (archive footage)

Harry Reasoner

as Self (archive footage)