Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "black-panther-party"

1. Forrest Gump (1994)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance

The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 2,253,430 | Gross: $330.25M

2. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

R | 129 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong

Votes: 193,098

3. The Hate U Give (2018)

PG-13 | 133 min | Crime, Drama

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Anthony Mackie

Votes: 40,078 | Gross: $29.72M

4. I'm Not There (2007)

R | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw

Votes: 61,160 | Gross: $4.02M

5. Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

R | 126 min | Biography, Drama, History

Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.

Director: Shaka King | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback

Votes: 91,368

6. The Butler (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Drama

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda

Votes: 119,696 | Gross: $116.63M

7. Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

Unrated | 123 min | Drama

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti

Votes: 1,749

8. The Big Cigar (2024– )

Biography, Drama, Thriller | Post-production

Follows Huey P. Newton's life. He escaped to Cuba to avoid prosecution for murder with the help of Bert Schneider, the Hollywood producer behind Easy Rider, as well as a few other celebrity radicals.

Stars: Marc Menchaca, Alessandro Nivola, Glynn Turman, P.J. Byrne

9. Seberg (2019)

R | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.

Director: Benedict Andrews | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O'Connell

Votes: 10,322

10. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster

Votes: 5,851 | Gross: $15.18M

11. 13th (2016)

TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales

Votes: 37,648

12. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary, History

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X

Votes: 23,484 | Gross: $7.12M

13. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

R | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.

Director: Niels Mueller | Stars: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson

Votes: 26,102 | Gross: $0.70M

14. Panther (I) (1995)

R | 124 min | Drama

A dramatized account of the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense.

Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 2,693 | Gross: $6.83M

15. Four Days in September (1997)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama, History

Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.

Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Luiz Fernando Guimarães

Votes: 5,353 | Gross: $0.31M

16. Night Catches Us (2010)

R | 90 min | Drama, Romance

In 1976, complex political and emotional forces are set in motion when a young man returns to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement.

Director: Tanya Hamilton | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Jamara Griffin, Sadiq Afif

Votes: 1,830 | Gross: $0.08M

17. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

Not Rated | 115 min | Documentary, History

This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.

Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Blair Anderson, Omar Barbour, Julian Bond, Elaine Brown

Votes: 2,144 | Gross: $0.48M

18. Steal This Movie (2000)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

After years of hiding, the notorious American leftist radical, Abbie Hoffman, discusses his life, his cause and the opposition he endured.

Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollak

Votes: 2,407 | Gross: $0.08M

19. Black Panthers (1968)

Not Rated | 31 min | Documentary, Short

A short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Bill Brent, Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver

Votes: 2,681

20. The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A chronicle of Fred Hampton's revolutionary leadership of the Illinois Black Panther Party, followed by an investigation into his assassination at the hands of the Chicago Police Department.

Director: Howard Alk | Stars: Skip Andrew, Edward Carmody, James Davis, Rennie Davis

Votes: 553

21. Commune (2005)

Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary

A documentary on the Black Bear Ranch Commune, an alternative living community founded in 1968 in the remote North Californian wilderness.

Director: Jonathan Berman | Stars: Mahaj Seeger, Peter Coyote, Cedar Seeger, Mel Kramer

Votes: 430

22. A Huey P. Newton Story (2001 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Roger Guenveur Smith, Rahum Brown, Brenda Lee, Georgina Ransley

Votes: 851

23. Burn Motherfucker, Burn! (2017)

TV-MA | 99 min | Documentary

Explores the roots of civil unrest in California and the relationship between African Americans and LAPD.

Director: Sacha Jenkins | Stars: Alex Alonso, Nicolas Alonso, B-Real, Danny Bakewell

Votes: 601

24. Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)

90 min | Documentary

It tells the story of the courageous campaign of citizens and activists who faced violence and oppression in the struggle for the right to vote

Directors: Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard | Stars: Ella Baker, Stokely Carmichael, Courtland Cox, Mukasa Dada

Votes: 156

25. The Cockettes (2002)

R | 102 min | Documentary

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.

Directors: Bill Weber, David Weissman | Stars: Larry Brinkin, Peggy Cass, The Cockettes, Pristine Condition

Votes: 625 | Gross: $0.22M

26. (T)ERROR (2015)

84 min | Documentary

(T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of "Shariff", a 63-year-old Black ... See full summary »

Directors: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe | Stars: Khalifah Ali Al-Akili, Mike Healey, Ali Kareem, Saeed 'Shariff' Torres

Votes: 823

27. Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021)

89 min | Documentary, History

How the movement came into being in the late 1960s, when it fought back against police brutality and racism.

Director: George Amponsah | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, James Baldwin

Votes: 149

28. Black August (2007)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama

Inmate activist George Lester Jackson's short life became a flashpoint for revolution, igniting the bloodiest riot in San Quentin's history.

Director: Samm Styles | Stars: Gary Dourdan, Darren Bridgett, Ezra J. Stanley, 'Big' LeRoy Mobley

Votes: 304

29. Classified X (2007 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 53 min | Documentary

A history of the racially stereotyped portrayal of African Americans in cinema.

Director: Mark Daniels | Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Margaret Barker, Joanna Barnes, Ethel Barrymore

Votes: 253 | Gross: $0.00M

30. The Game (1989)

103 min | Drama

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Director: Curtis Brown | Stars: Curtis Brown, Richard Lee Ross, Vanessa Shaw, Billy Williams

Votes: 12

31. American Revolution 2 (1969)

86 min | Documentary

A gritty but essential documentary charting social turbulence in late 1960's Chicago. American Revolution 2 includes footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention protest and riot, a critique ... See full summary »

Directors: Howard Alk, Mike Gray | Stars: Richard J. Daley, Charles Geary, Dick Gregory, Bobby Lee

Votes: 132

32. Huey

30 min | Short, Drama | Completed

In the late 1980s, Black Panther co-founder Dr. Huey P. Newton enjoys a more ordinary routine but takes the opportunity to tell his life story for a documentary. But because some FBI agents... See full summary »

Director: Ken Gregory | Stars: Devielle Johnson, Michelle Merring, Jim Nieb, Darian Michael Garey

33. Assata aka Joanne Chesimard (2008)

93 min | Drama

Assata Shakur, the firebrand revolutionary Black Panther, was convicted and sentenced to life in a widely publicized case involving a 1973 shootout on the NJ Turnpike, which resulted in the... See full summary »

Director: Fred Baker | Stars: Will Blagrove, Rick Borgia, J.D. Brown, Kathleen Cleaver

Votes: 11

34. In the Land of the Free... (2010)

84 min | Documentary

Tells the shocking and unbelievable story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King, three black men from rural Louisiana who were held in solitary confinement in the biggest prison... See full summary »

Director: Vadim Jean | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Daniel Bee, Robert King, Malik Rahim

Votes: 53

35. May Day on the Green (2019)

Documentary, Short

On the Green is an archival documentary about a peaceful protest, referred to as the May Day Rally, in May of 1970. May Day featured 15,000 people in support of Black Panther Party members ... See full summary »

Director: Reginald Christophe

36. The Urban Crisis and the New Militants: Black Moderates and Black Militants (1969)

9 min | Documentary, Short

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Star: Bobby Rush

Votes: 15

37. Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (2008)

Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary

This film tells the story of three former members of the Black Panther Party incarcerated at Angola Louisiana State Prison in solitary confinement longer than anyone in modern US history and collectively known as the Angola 3.

Director: Jimmy O'Halligan | Stars: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rod Coronado, Geronimo Ji Jaga, Robert King

Votes: 13

38. A Place of Rage (1991)

54 min | Documentary, History

This celebration of African American women and their achievements features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Within the context of the civil rights, Black power ... See full summary »

Director: Pratibha Parmar | Stars: Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, June Jordan, Rosa Parks

Votes: 29

39. The Barrel of a Gun (2010)

Documentary

In 1981, black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and was convicted of it in 1982. More than 25 years later, the ... See full summary »

Director: Tigre Hill | Stars: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pam Africa, Edward Asner, James Binns

Votes: 45

40. Liberation Saturday (2008)

34 min | Short

The candid portrait of a man and his determination, perseverance and faith.

Stars: Nate Branch, Gary Davis, Mildred Gant, Don Gregory

Votes: 8

41. Untitled Peter Norman Story

120 min | Drama, History, Thriller | Announced

In 2008 Matt Norman released the International award winning documentary feature "SALUTE" which covers his famous uncles (Peter Norman) support of the Black Power Salute performed by Tommie... See full summary »

Director: Matt Norman

42. Genet parle d'Angela Davis (1970)

10 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Carole Roussopoulos | Stars: Angela Davis, Jean Genet

Votes: 30

43. The Thursday Club (2005)

60 min | Documentary, War

Retired Oakland police officers recall the 1960s, particularly encounters with the Black Panthers and the anti-war movement.

Director: George Paul Csicsery | Stars: Herb Coffman, Booker Ealy, Robert Ford, Judith Murray

44. Public Enemy (1999)

87 min | Documentary

French/German documentary on the Black Panther party told through the modern day (1999) perspective of 4 former members: Bobby Seale, Jamal Joseph, Nile Rodgers & Kathleen Cleaver.

Director: Jens Meurer | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Kathleen Cleaver, Jamal Joseph, Nile Rodgers

Votes: 110

45. The Black Messiah Murders

Action, Crime, Drama | Announced

Serena Wilson engages the burned-out former federal attorney Sam Cohen who was responsible for exposing the FBI's and Chicago justice system's plot and murder civil rights leader, Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago Black Panthers.

Director: Lance Flores | Stars: Michael Monks, Nataly Peña, Shaula Vega, Peter Gonzales Falcon

46. Twenty-Two Hours (2018)

43 min | Short, History

Responding to the call for solidarity extended by the Black Panther Party, the French novelist, playwright and poet Jean Genet traveled secretly to the U.S in 1970 and spent two months ... See full summary »

Director: Bouchra Khalili

47. The First Monument (2022)

10 min | Documentary, Short

The First Monument explores the commission of a bust of Mr. Newton.

Director: Damien McDuffie | Star: Elija Bean

48. 72 Hours: True Crime (2003– )
Episode: Hijacked (2004)

22 min | Documentary, Crime

In 1971, a Toronto plane is hijacked to go to Cuba, making it the first in Canadian airspace.

Director: David Acomba | Stars: Diane D'Aquila, Jason Wade Jones, Ardon Bess, Brad Austin

Votes: 8

49. The Incredible Hulk (1977–1982)
Episode: Like a Brother (1979)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

David 'Butler' works at a car-wash in a black neighborhood run by a drug dealer with a black panther. He tries to help two orphans, the youngest of which is a diabetic.

Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Tony Burton

Votes: 204

50. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode: Shooting and F**king Are the Same Thing (2021)

Documentary, History

The story of what tore the revolutions in the 1960s apart. Jiang Qing in China, Michael X in London, Afeni Shakur in New York believed that millions of people's minds were haunted by the ... See full summary »

Stars: H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Curtis, Michael de Freitas

Votes: 121