All Power to the People!
1996
104 minutes
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…
Top 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)
Emory Douglas
Self
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)