The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

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.

Documentary

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)

Omar Barbour

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Elaine Brown

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Scot Brown

(Self - Historian)

William Calhoun

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Clayborne Carson

(Self - Historian)

Eldridge Cleaver

(Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage))

Dennis Cunningham

(Self - Attorney)

Emory Douglas

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Flores Forbes

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Sherwin Forte

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Ronald Freeman

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Roland Freeman

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Beverly Gage

(Self - Historian)

Ray Gaul

(Self - Oakland Police Department)

Jeff Haas

(Self - Attorney)

Fred Hampton

(Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage))

Edward Hanrahan

(Self - State's Attorney (archive footage) (as Edward V. Hanrahan))

Elbert Howard

(Self - Black Panther Party (as Elbert 'Big Man' Howard))

Ericka Huggins

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Phyllis Jackson

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Deborah Johnson

(Self - Black Panther Party (as Akua Njeri [Deborah Johnson]))

Mike Klonsky

(Self - Students for a Democratic Society [SDS])

Mark Kurlansky

(Self - Writer)

Bob Lee

(Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage))

David Lemieux

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Tarika Lewis

(Self - Black Panther Party)

Felipe Luciano

(Self - Young Lords)

Ron McCarthy

(Self - Los Angeles Police Department)