The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015·Documentary·1h 53m
7.1
★
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
Directed by Stanley Nelson
black panther party
1960s
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Cast
Kathleen Cleaver
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Julian Bond
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]
Jamal Joseph
Self - Black Panther Party
Blair Anderson
Self - Black Panther Party
Elaine Brown
Self - Black Panther Party
William Calhoun
Self - Black Panther Party
Eldridge Cleaver
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Fred Hampton
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
David Lemieux
Self - Black Panther Party
Felipe Luciano
Self - Young Lords
Crew
Stanley Nelson
Director
Stanley Nelson
Writer
Stanley Nelson
Producer
Benjamin Frankenberg
Production Assistant
Popular Reviews
20 reviews
TaliaBat1106
10.0★ · 02/22/26
I am a revolutionary!
This movie tells one of the greatest and craziest stories in American history. Please watch this great documentary and educate urself.
Also stand up for anything that aint right!
This movie tells one of the greatest and craziest stories in American history. Please watch this great documentary and educate urself.
Also stand up for anything that aint right!
I am a revolutionary!
This movie tells one of the greatest and craziest stories in American history. Please watch this great documentary and educate urself.
Also stand up for anything that aint right!
This movie tells one of the greatest and craziest stories in American history. Please watch this great documentary and educate urself.
Also stand up for anything that aint right!
Imani Fwala
8.0★ · 05/04/25
It’s almost funny how cartoonishly evil J. Edgar Roover and the fbi in general was, and also how the police acted like a bunch of goons with no brain just obeying the order that their leader gave them.
Anyways this was great, and I really wished Fred Hampton had lived who knows how the BPP would’ve turned out.
Anyways this was great, and I really wished Fred Hampton had lived who knows how the BPP would’ve turned out.
It’s almost funny how cartoonishly evil J. Edgar Roover and the fbi in general was, and also how the police acted like a bunch of goons with no brain just obeying the order that their leader gave them.
Anyways this was great, and I really wished Fred Hampton had lived who knows how the BPP would’ve turned out.
Anyways this was great, and I really wished Fred Hampton had lived who knows how the BPP would’ve turned out.
Lewis
7.0★ · 04/30/25
You can jail revolutionaries but you can’t jail a revolution
RIP Fred Hampton
RIP Fred Hampton
You can jail revolutionaries but you can’t jail a revolution
RIP Fred Hampton
RIP Fred Hampton
Laurence Skinner
7.0★ · 03/20/24
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Zoë Westlund
8.4★ · 02/29/24
A really good documentary over the rise and fall of the Black Panthers, yet they still failed to mention socialism at all. Sure, there was a clear part where they talked about how they saw capitalism as a core issue, but this can hardly be a comprehensive documentary when ignoring such a huge component of the party. A very good outline to the history that works more as an introduction, though!
A really good documentary over the rise and fall of the Black Panthers, yet they still failed to mention socialism at all. Sure, there was a clear part where they talked about how they saw capitalism as a core issue, but this can hardly be a comprehensive documentary when ignoring such a huge component of the party. A very good outline to the history that works more as an introduction, though!