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BLACK PANTHERS AND BEYOND (ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE) LEE LEW-LEE (115' - USA - 1996)

"The film is an oral history of the party from its beginnings to what everyone is up to in the late `90's. This being a controversial organization, a lot of accusations are made toward the government orchestrating the downfall of the party. The problem is that there is no opposing viewpoints to rebut any accusation. So-called experts (what are their qualifications?), quick glimpses of documents (which could be anything) and former FBI officials (disgruntled, perhaps?) are used to help bolster the arguments. One huge mistake is that when this was made, the news story broken by the San Jose Mercury News about the CIA working with drug smugglers to funnel cocaine into poor black neighborhoods was used to end the documentary, the intention being, I guess, to show that things still haven't gotten better. The only problem was that since then, the news article has been proved to be false. Another thing, is that a few people are interviewed in prison, including Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. I know why they are in prison, but with the exception of Peltier, the film never says why they are in prison. The mentioning of A.I.M. was curious because, it seemed like a minor point in the history of the black panthers. Some of the accusations are a little wild - one of the wives of the party leadership was a FBI plant and that a FBI official was most likely murdered by the FBI are just two of them, of course no one is asked to disprove this, which would have made this film a little more believable. As it is, it is hard to swallow. Which is a shame because I feel there is a lot here to believe." (source IMDB)

nofun a écrit :La qualité de l'image et du son n'est pas géniale, mais c'est effectivement un documentaire très intéressant. Merci bien !

" PANTHERES NOIRES

Thomas van Eersel, L'Echappée. 2006. En français

L'intérêt principal de ce livre est d'être publié en français... Intérêt non négligeable quand on voit le peu de livres français disponibles sur le sujet. Le livre propose un historique assez succint du mouvement mais surtout explique en détail et de manière documentée les principales techniques de repressions utilisées par le FBI. Il explique également dans une ultime partie, ce qu'est devenu le mouvement après 1973. Une bibliographie et une filmographie précises achèvent de rendre ce livre indispensable pour toute personne souhaitant se renseigner sur le BPP sans avoir à dénicher des livres devenus introuvables. "

decad-act a écrit :http://actiondelarevo.free.fr/ACTIONNAI ... 0edito.htm
le site des p4 ?

decad-act a écrit :Moi j'ai lu " Pantheres noires : histoire du black panther party ", de Tom Van Eersel.
Certains lui reprochent son coté " historien " genre un peu "spécialiste" et le ton journalistique aussi. Mais si tu n'as jamais rien lu ou n'y connait pas grand chose c'est une bonne introduction pas mal référencée.