error Public Enemy (1999) - Jens Meurer | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie
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Public Enemy (1999)

Sub-Genres - Race & Ethnicity, Social History, Biography, Politics & Government  |   Run Time - 90 min.  |   Countries - United States  |  
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Synopsis by Jonathan Crow

German filmmaker Jens Meurer directs this documentary about the Black Panthers, the seminal militant black power movement that was persecuted by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI during the 1960s. Ultimately, the film portrays the revolutionaries in a positive light and the Feds crusade as a tragic waste of life. Panther leader Bobby Seale (who now hawks a line of barbecue cookbooks), law professor Kathleen Cleaver, and musician Nile Rodgers were interviewed for this film.

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Race Relations | Social Injustice

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Black-Panthers, radical, African-American, racial-tension, rebel-with-a-cause, revolution, militant, social-change, inequality