Black Power TV: Documentaries and Raw Footage

Interviews with founding members, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale, and documentary footage of the organization's meetings and marches reveal a pragmatic and still relevant outline for African American communities' self-determination and development.

"THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television"

Interview of two former FBI agents who recall the agencies investigations of The Black Panther Party

Black Panther Field Marshall Donald Cox recollects his life and his involvement with the Black Panthers through archival and new footage.

Newsreel footage of a public Black Panther demonstration held on May 1, 1969 in honor of Huey Newton.

A History of African-American newspapers and journalism from the mid-19th century through the 20th century. With commentary by historians, journalists, and photojournalists, tell s of the struggles against censorship, discrimination and for freedom of the press. Includes commentary by historians and journalists: Jane Rhodes, Vernon Jarrett, Phyl Garland, Christopher Reed, James Grossman, Earl Calloway, Patrick Washburn, Timuel Black, Edward Robinson, George Barbour, Robert R. Lavelle, Charles Harris, Vera Jackson, Frank E. Bolden, Edna Chappell McKenzie, John Sengstacke, Evelyn Cunningham.

"The Pittsburgh Courier was the leading Black newspaper of the last century. No mere journal of African American life, the Courier was a muckraking crusader in the vanguard of the civil rights movement. Its fourteen national editions had a peak circulation of over three hundred fifty thousand. With accounts from Courier reporters and employees, and scholars like John Hope Franklin ... reveals the role of the Pittsburgh Courier in reporting and shaping African American history"--Container.

Offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on the many challenges facing American television news in general and the tensions between ratings and journalistic ethics, as TV news directors and station owners across the country are struggling to increase ratings and keep viewers in the face of intense competition from the Internet and other news media. In this segment, when a wave of bomb threats hits Charlotte's schools, newly hired WCNC-TV news director Keith Connors reins in his reporters while the competition rushes to air with misinformation. Connors loses the big story but hopes he is building viewer trust. The station confronts a different ratings dilemma when several white families sue to overturn the city's landmark 1971 school busing plan. As reporters and producers argue over the amount of trial coverage, racial tensions in the newsroom are revealed and Connors must try to reconcile the demands of business, journalism, and community.

Documentary which explores how television news coverage of violent racial conflicts acts in complicated ways to exacerbate community and individual conflicts.

This film was made by the John Birch Society shortly after the Watts riots. Employing newsreel footage, the film traces the methods used by communists to take over China, Cuba and Algeria, and then attempts to demonstrate that the same tactics have been used by the civil rights movement in the United States.

1965 documentary Decision shows the tumultuous beginnings of the Bay Area civil rights and peace protest movement from 1960 to 1965.