The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
Acting
Roger Guenveur Smith channels Newton's contradictions with terrifying precision.
Direction
Lee's intimate close-ups make one man feel like an army.
Editing
Jagged archive cuts fracture myth and memory.
Director
Spike Lee
Roger Guenveur Smith
Huey P. Newton
Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
H. Rap Brown
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jim Brown
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Angela Davis
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eldridge Cleaver
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kathleen Cleaver
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Pryor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bobby Seale
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bessie Smith
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kwame Ture
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Orson Welles
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roger Guenveur Smith developed this one-man show over 15 years before Lee filmed it, performing it everywhere from tiny black box theaters to international festivals.
Released months before 9/11, the film's interrogation of revolutionary violence and state surveillance became eerily prescient — and largely ignored by distributors.
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