COINTELPRO 101
COINTELPRO 101
Release: 2010-05-07
·Runtime: 56m
Documentary
COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
The Freedom Archives
Cast
Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Self (archive footage)
Ward Churchill
as Self - Native American Activist/Author
Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
as Self (archive footage)
Geronimo Pratt
as Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner
Fred Hampton
as Self (archive footage)
Kathleen Cleaver
as Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney
Leonard Peltier
as Self - Political Prisoner
Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Kwame Ture
as Self (archive footage)