Forrest Gump - un ragazzo non proprio idiota, ma dal basso coefficiente d'intelligenza - racconta la sua storia a coloro che, uno dopo l'altro, si siedono vicino a lui in attesa dell'autobus. È stato in Vietnam, ha stretto la mano a tre presidenti, ha incontrato Elvis, ha assistito ai movimenti studenteschi, ha casualmente fatto esplodere il Watergate, ha suggerito le parole di "Imagine" a John Lennon e per tutta la vita è stato innamorato di una ragazza conosciuta fin da bambino.

Sono i primi anni ’70, un periodo di grandi sconvolgimenti sociali mentre negli Stati Uniti infuria la lotta per i diritti civili. Ron Stallworth è il primo detective afroamericano del dipartimento di polizia di Colorado Springs, ma il suo arrivo è accolto con scetticismo ed ostilità dai membri di tutte le sezioni del dipartimento. Imperterrito, Stallworth decide di farsi un nome e di fare la differenza nella sua comunità. Si imbarca quindi in una missione molto pericolosa: infiltrarsi nel Ku Klux Klan ed esporne i crimini.

Quella che doveva essere una protesta pacifica si trasforma in un violento scontro con la polizia, dando luogo a uno dei più celebri processi della storia.

A Chicago, verso le fine degli anni Sessanta, il criminale minorenne Bill O'Neal accetta di fare l'informatore per l'FBI dopo il suo arresto. Infiltrato da un agente nell'influente Black Panther Party, O'Neal scala le gerarchie del partito e si avvicina al suo leader Fred Hampton, prima arrestato e poi liberato in attesa dell'appello. Militante di giorno e traditore stipendiato la notte, Bill vive in maniera tormentata la sua doppia natura, da un lato aderendo alla visione politica di Hampton ma dall'altra contribuendo in maniera decisiva alla sua violenta uccisione, avvenuta per mano dell'FBI nel dicembre 1969.

Rubin, reduce dal Vietnam, si stabilisce a New York e vuole realizzare un film-verità riprendendo di nascosto ciò che avviene nel palazzo di fronte. Finale dinamitardo. Seguito ideale di Ciao America (1968), questo bizzarro dramma satirico è, nel suo stravagante anticonformismo, un film non riuscito, ma non privo di intelligenti invenzioni come antologia di pratiche voyeuristiche. Per i fans di De Palma.

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Sulla scia di Woodstock, in un campo estivo per ragazzi disabili è scoppiata una rivoluzione che ha trasformato la loro vita e dato vita a un movimento.

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.

Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.

The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.

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

In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.

Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during that period and includes the appearances of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.

A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their lives forever. This film is about Tommie Smith and John Carlos' protest at the 1968 Olympics.

Ottobre 1965. I tipici pupazzi giganti che si vedono sulle strade di Pamplona durante le feste di San Firmino, sono invitati a sfilare a New York sulla Quinta Strada. Non a tutti però è permesso di esibirsi: a causa della discriminazione razziale, le autorità americane escludono i giganti neri dalla parata.

After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. Interfering with Marcus's good intentions are the neighborhood's continuing racial and social conflicts, as well as old enemies and friends -- both with scores to settle.

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

A quiet scene in the snow, a black child in an anorak runs mumbling towards the camera. The pictures of Skip Norman's CULTURAL NATIONALISM (1968) are underpinned with a powerful monologue by the co-founder of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale

Documentary film produced by American Documentary Films and the Black Panther Party from 1968, honoring Huey P. Newton's struggle for African American civil rights, advocating for his release from jail and addressing issues of racism in American society. Features scenes from the funeral of Bobby Hutton and the Huey P. Newton Birthday Rally in the Oakland Auditorium on February 17th 1968, with speeches by: Bobby Seale (who explains the Black Panther Party's 10 Point Program in detail); Ron Dellums; James Foreman; Charles R. Garry; Eldridge Cleaver; Bob Avakian; H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael. Also includes views of police officers showing the weapons and armor they carry in patrol cars and of African Americans discussing racism in American society. This film was scripted and directed by Sally Pugh.

Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.