Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? (1986)
• January 1st, 1986 • 0h 58min
Documentary
Overview
The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and examines the notion of Black power itself. Greaves interviewed major Black leaders, such as Franklin Thomas, Clifton Wharton Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Lerone Bennett Jr. to present a candid take on issues within the African American community, revealing wider societal problems in America at large.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Coded Bias
Released on: 2020-11-11
Documentary
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...
Bad River
Released on: 2024-03-15
Documentary
Wisconsin's tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. "Bad River" shows...
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Released on: 1994-01-26
Documentary, History
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights l...
Stories of A
Released on: 1974-10-16
Documentary
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...
The Groveland Four
Released on: 2018-06-25
Documentary
July, 1949: four young black men are wrongly accused of rape by a 17-year-old farm wife in rural Lak...
I Am FEMEN
Released on: 2014-05-22
Documentary
Oxana is a woman, a fighter, an artist. As a teenager, her passion for iconography almost inspires h...
The Red Elvis
Released on: 2007-02-13
Documentary
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
Released on: 2019-05-01
Documentary
Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential ...
Henry: One Man's Way
Released on: 1996-10-21
Documentary
One Man's Way is a 1996 documentary in which Peter Singer documents the efforts and philosophies of ...
Indian Rights for Indian Women
Released on: 2018-09-25
Documentary, History
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Released on: 2020-03-25
Documentary
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp ...
Invisible Beauty
Released on: 2023-09-15
Documentary
Fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeli...
Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale
Released on: 2021-09-22
Documentary
For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an a...
Still We Rise
Released on: 2022-12-08
Documentary, History
50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the wor...
Land of Hope and Glory
Released on: 2017-08-02
Documentary
In 2005, a film called Earthlings became the most pivotal documentary of the animal rights movement....
Taking Alcatraz
Released on: 2015-11-01
Documentary
A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...
Megg - The Margin Who Migrate to the Center
Released on: 2018-06-09
Documentary
Megg Rayara overcame obstacles that should not exist to get where she is. Get a Doctorate Degree is ...
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Released on: 2017-06-12
Documentary, Music
A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and w...
Prime Farmland
Released on: 2020-08-01
Documentary
This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise...