Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther (1970)

Name: Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 1970-08-24

1h 15m

Running Time

Plot.

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

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Cast & Crew.

Eldridge Cleaver

Self

Kathleen Cleaver

Self

William Klein

Writer / Director

William Klein

Director

Media.

Details.

Release Date
August 24, 1970

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 15m

Content Rating
PG-13

This Movie Is About.

politics

post-colonial

eldridge cleaver

black panthers

algeria

black lives matter

maghreb

panafricanism

african revolutionaries

Wiki.

Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther is an Algerian documentary film made in 1969 and directed by William Klein. The film covers Black Panther activist Eldridge Cleaver while exiled in Algeria. Cleaver moved to Algeria after the U.S. state of California tried to charge him with intent to murder. In the documentary, Cleaver discusses revolution in the United States and denounces political figures Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Ronald Reagan and Richard J. Daley.