Black Panthers is a 1968 short documentary film by Agnès Varda. The film was shot in Oakland, California during the protests over Huey P. Newton’s arrest for John Frey’s murder in 1967. Newton is himself interviewed and talks about his poor treatment while incarcerated and discusses the ideals of the Black Panther movement.
Uptight is intended as an updated version of John Ford's 1935 film The Informer, based on the book of the same name by Liam O'Flaherty, but the setting was transposed from Dublin, Ireland to Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In it, a group of Black revolutionaries is betrayed by one of their own.
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