Eldridge Cleaver Movies

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

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...

The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the...

This special three-part presentation of "Like It Is" examines the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States, emphasizing the...

Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was...

Through a secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), there was a concerted effort to subvert the will of the people to...

An absolute unknown work among Marker’s collaborations, made by filmmakers Bill Stephens, Paul and Carole Roussopoulas with Eldridge and...

In March 1997, social activist, former Black Panther, and author, Eldridge Cleaver sat down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a discussion of his life...

A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as...

The important L.A. Newsreel film about the Black Panthers that was rediscovered and written about by USC professor David James. Featured in the film...

Documentary about the West Coast Black Panthers, the deadly crackdown by the FBI and police forces.

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.