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…
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dennis Banks
Marlon Brando
David Brinkley
Elaine Brown
H. Rap Brown
Kwame Ture
Eldridge Cleaver
William Colby
Kathleen Cleaver
Walter Cronkite
Emory Douglas
Fred Hampton
Robert F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Richard Nixon
Gordon Parks
Ronald Reagan
Harry Reasoner