All Power to the People! (1996)

6.3/10 104 min History Documentary

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…

Cast

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self

Dennis Banks

Self (archive footage)

Marlon Brando

Self (archive footage)

David Brinkley

Self (archive footage)

Elaine Brown

Self (archive footage)

H. Rap Brown

Self (archive footage)

Kwame Ture

Self (archive footage)

Eldridge Cleaver

Self (archive footage)

William Colby

Self (archive footage)

Kathleen Cleaver

Self

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

Fred Hampton

Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Gordon Parks

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Harry Reasoner

Self (archive footage)

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