The Black Power Mixtape
September 2011
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Lisa Kennedy
Broken into nine chapters -- one for each year -- the documentary isn't a rigorous work but a felt piece of vital, if flawed, art.
Joe Williams
It's thrilling to hear from unrepentant revolutionaries such as Angela Davis and amusing to hear from their bell-bottomed white lawyers.
Tom Long
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is not your standard documentary dealing with racism in America.
David Jenkins
The film is testament to the power of archival legwork in documentary-filmmaking.
Tom Keogh
From the fly-on-the-wall, cinéma-vérité style of the '60s to a more aggressive, advocacy approach in the mid-'70s, "Mixtape" is a wide slice of nonfiction film history.
Ann Hornaday
A film that suffers from a surfeit of credulity.
Critic reviews
Lisa Kennedy
Broken into nine chapters -- one for each year -- the documentary isn't a rigorous work but a felt piece of vital, if flawed, art.
Joe Williams
It's thrilling to hear from unrepentant revolutionaries such as Angela Davis and amusing to hear from their bell-bottomed white lawyers.
Tom Long
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is not your standard documentary dealing with racism in America.
David Jenkins
The film is testament to the power of archival legwork in documentary-filmmaking.
Tom Keogh
From the fly-on-the-wall, cinéma-vérité style of the '60s to a more aggressive, advocacy approach in the mid-'70s, "Mixtape" is a wide slice of nonfiction film history.
Wesley Morris
You watch the material here and wonder whether most of the movies made about black people are meant to pacify general audiences, to distract them from demanding more of the movies.
Cast and credits
Actors | Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis |
Producers | Annika Rogell |
Director | Göran Olsson |
Writers | Göran Olsson |
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Start within 30 days, finish within 48 hours.
Run time
92 minutes
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