Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021)

March 25th, 20211h 29min

Documentary
60%

Overview

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. At the heart of the documentary is a series of astonishing interviews with past activists, many of whom are speaking for the first time about what it was really like to be involved in the British Black Power movement, bringing to life one of the key cultural revolutions in the history of the nation.


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