H. Rap Brown

Easter is a five story-arc opera about the coming-of-age of juking. The first of its tales aptly deals with contemporary civil unrest with foci on the interrelationships between law enforcement in communities it serves, and corruption within the justice system as a whole. It unfolds from the perspective of an African-American male who feels circumstantially slighted by society, and because of that, takes the law into his own hands and goes on a rampage which erupts into a war in the process.

A través de las palabras del escritor y activista afroamericano James Baldwin conocemos uno de los grandes problemas de la sociedad estadounidense: el conflicto racial entre la población blanca y la población negra en los Estados Unidos. Este problema social y político forma parte de la historia norteamericana, pero también es una preocupación actual.

En 1968 la opera prima de George A. Romero sentó las bases del cine de zombies con el que tanto disfrutamos y desde hace tiempo es considerada una cinta de culto que ha dado origen a su propia mitología. El documental Birth of the living dead, dirigido por el debutante Rob Kuhns, no solo muestra en menos de ochenta minutos la aventura de Romero para sacar adelante su largometraje independiente, sino que también explica el contexto social e histórico que da sentido al mensaje de La noche de los muertos vivientes.

Muhammad Ali ha sido una de las mayores leyendas que ha dado el mundo del boxeo. Con tan solo 18 años se convirtió en campeón olímpico en los Juegos de Roma de 1960. Cuatro años después, ya como profesional, se proclamó por primera vez campeón mundial de los grandes pesos. Perdió su corona cuando se negó a combatir en Vietnam y durante más de tres años no pudo subirse a los cuadriláteros. Volvió al ring en 1970 y recuperó su cetro en una mítica pelea contra George Foreman celebrada en Kinshasa, la capital de Zaire, el 30 de octubre de 1974. Fue derrotado en 1975 pero ese mismo año volvió a erigirse, por tercera vez, en campeón mundial. Pero Muhammad Ali no ha sido solamente un gran deportista, también fue un luchador incansable por los derechos de la población negra combatiendo la discriminación racial durante los años sesenta. (FILMAFFINITY)

The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

A new investigative documentary exploring the controversies surrounding the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 as he looked set to challenge Nixon for the White House. Munir Sirhan tells how his brother Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting. Sandra Serrano speaks for the first time in forty years about the girl in the polka-dot dress fleeing the scene, yelling "We shot him! We shot him!" And Dr. Herbert Spiegel of Columbia University describes how Sirhan was hypnotically programmed to kill Robert Kennedy.

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The interviews accompany clips from groundbreaking shows and performances by entertainment pioneers that create a timeline of the portrayal of African Americans throughout TV history.

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.

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…

A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.

A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.

This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the USA about the subversive groups within the country looking to destroy the American system and its people. It dates to 1968, one of the most chaotic years in 20th Century American history.