26 August 2009 - The Greatest Threat: Black Panthers 68-71

Wednesday August 26th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--Huey! - Sally Pugh, 1968, 30 minutes
--Bobby Seale - Newsreel, 1969, 15 minutes
--Black Panthers in Chicago - Videofreex, 1969, 24 minutes
--The Death of a Revolutionary - World in Action, 1971, 25 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Thomas "Blood" McCreary - member of the Black Panther Party (New York Chapter) and the Black Liberation Army


(The Sally Pugh film can be purchased on DVD (2006) from International Historic Films. All of the Newsreel films are available from Third World Newsreel. The Videofreex archives are currently being preserved and distributed by Video Data Bank. Network in the UK released a (PAL) 2-DVD set (2005) of twelve "World in Action" programs from 1967-1991.)