Black Panthers

Agnès Varda
1968-12-01

Black is beautiful! We want to free Huey Newton!
7.2
28 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Huey P. Newton Self Unowned
Eldridge Cleaver Self Unowned
Bobby Seale Self Unowned
Kwame Ture Self Unowned
Ron Dellums Self Unowned
James Forman Self Unowned
H. Rap Brown Self Unowned
Kathleen Cleaver Self Unowned
Bill Brent Self - Captain in the Black Panther Unowned