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Documentaries like Black Panthers

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The 3 reasons people love Black Panthers

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  1. You like hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words.

  2. You like being dropped into the summer of 1968.

  3. You want something under half an hour.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • Amend: The Fight for America2021

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you like the real people who fought for equal rights in America.

  • I Am Not Your Negro2017

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you want Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes.

  • The Times of Harvey Milk1984

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you want the real Harvey Milk, in the footage of his time.

  • Twenty Years Later1984

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you want real villagers telling what happened to them.

  • Best of Enemies2015

    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you're drawn to 1968 America, Miami and Chicago.

  • Why We Fight: Prelude to War1942

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you want to see how America explained World War II to itself in 1942.

  • RBG2018

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words

    Good for you if you want the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words.

  • O.J.: Made in America2016

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words

    Good for you if you want to understand a trial through the city around it.

  • The Square2013

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you want to be in Tahrir Square with the people who filled it.

  • The Trial of the Chicago 72020

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words

    Good for you if you want to understand a real trial from the Vietnam era.

  • 13th2016

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you like an argument built from archives, laws and numbers.

  • Santiago, Italia2018

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you want to understand what happened in Santiago in 1973.

  • The Silence of Others2019

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words
    • being dropped into the summer of 1968

    Good for you if you want to follow survivors seeking justice over years.

  • No Other Land2024

    • hearing the Black Panthers speak in their own words

    Good for you if you want to see events filmed by the people living them.

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