Co-produced by Danny Glover, with powerful footage shot by a group of Swedish filmakers in the late 60′s and early 70′s reporting from a global perspective with a combination of commitment and naiveté. They traveled across the Atlantic to explore the Black Power movement, which was being alternately ignored or portrayed in the U.S. media as a violent, nascent terrorist movement. I saw this on Swiss National TV late last night and found it on youtube to share it with you…
For three decades, the film canisters sat undisturbed in a cellar beneath the Swedish National Broadcasting Company. Inside was roll after roll of startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage shot in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, all of it focused on the anti-war and Black Power movements. When filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson discovered the footage, he decided he had a responsibility to shepherd this glimpse of history into the world.
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