The Murder of Fred Hampton
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 22, 2007
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Facets
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Howard Alk |
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It’s the rare film that decades later can seem as timely as it was the day it came out. The searing documentary THE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON is such a film.
Los Angeles Times
The film illuminates the magnetic fervor, militant eloquence, and sheer infectious ideological energy of "living high on the people," that 'Chairman Fred' embodied.
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Counterpunch.org
As a first draft of history, this is invaluable, though its topical relevance has hardly diminished.
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Chicago Reader
It's the rare film that decades later can seem as timely as it was the day it came out. The searing documentary "The Murder of Fred Hampton" is such a film.
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Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
As he lay asleep in bed, famed Blank Panther Party leader Fred Hampton was shot and killed by Chicago police in 1969. Already at work on a documentary about Hampton, filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk soon rushed to the crime scene, recording moments that would prove crucial in contradicting police testimony. Passionate and gritty (those expecting objectivity should note the "murder" in its title), this powerful documentary examines the strange events surrounding Hampton's death, the courtroom battles that followed, and, of course, the film's initial subject: the extraordinary life of the celebrated community activist Fred Hampton.
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