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Danny Glover presents Black Power Mixtape, a dynamic documentary film that chronicles the story of the African-American community from 1967 to 1975. Featuring rare interviews with iconic activists and sparkling archive footage only recently discovered, Black Power Mixtape is an amazing chart of the civil rights movement, featuring music from The Roots, Michael Jackson and Erykah Badu.
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Original language: English
Subtitles for the hard of hearing: None
Subtitles: English (5-10 mins approx.)
Subtitle information:
Original language: English
Subtitles for the hard of hearing: None
Subtitles: English (5-10 mins approx.)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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If you are interested in human rights or the 70s, then this is for you. Its really unusual to see U.S. news from a European viewpoint; the film brings alive Black Power Giants I had only heard of but never seen, Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael, for example. Really gratifying is to see they accurately reflect the movement as one of being about self empowerment-through education and breakfast club schemes-rather than only focusing on the self defence element of their philosophy.
The DVD has an extra short film about a woman who reflects the confusion about identity that can be experienced by the children of immigrants.Recommended.
The DVD has an extra short film about a woman who reflects the confusion about identity that can be experienced by the children of immigrants.Recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Documentaries of this nature come few and far between. The fact that it is a splicing together of footage left in store of 60's and 70's America is quite akin to early Hip Hop production. And, so the term "mixtape" is quite pertinent. America at that time through a foreigner's eyes helps to provide a balanced approach in defining the issues for people of colour and the icons who gave voice to their cause. Students of documentary will appreciate the story's archivist approach, historians will see a behind the scenes perspective and the general audience an alternative look at the issues of the day. Money well spent and 80 minutes well invested.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Really this is a specialist product for students of the American Black Power and Civil Rights movements of the late '60's and early 1970s. As such it is both unique and invaluable, and also limited and needing to be used with care. What it does very well is to show firstly the different attitude and outlook of many of the next generation of African-American activists to Martin Luther King. It also shows very clearly, through being sub-divided into year by year sections, how fast changes were taking place in the movement; and how quickly some aspects went sour. As the original product of one single Scandinavian documentary film team, on the other hand, it has all of the disadvantages as well as the advantages of a single contemporary source. There is no wider context setting, so do not expect to see reference to other elements in the radical movement of the period: SDS, the Weathermen, Symbionese Liberation Army etc. A greater limitation is that the team's main contacts seem to have been with Stokeley Carmichael and Angela Davies, and so other key figures within the Black Power movement either appear relatively fleetingly or, as in the case of Bobby Seale, not at all. Despite these limitation, however, this tape is absolutely worth buying for its superb snapshot of the time.
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