COINTELPRO 101

COINTELPRO 101 (2010)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2010-05-07
  • Runtime: 0h 56min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: The Freedom Archives
  • Production Country: United States of America

Summary

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.

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  • Liz Derias

    as Self / Narrator (voice)

  • Bob Boyle

    as Self - Attorney

  • Jose Lopez

    as Self - Puerto Rican Cultural Center

  • Lucy Rodriguez

    as Self - Puerto Rican Independentista / Former Political Prisoner

  • Ward Churchill

    as Self - Native American Activist/Author

  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

    as Self - Native American Activist/Author

  • Leonard Peltier

    as Self - Political Prisoner

  • Ricardo Romero

    as Self - Al Frente de Lucha; Greeley, CO

  • Francísco "Kiko" Martinez

    as Self - Chicano/Mexicano Activist & Attorney

  • Priscilla Falcon

    as Self - Professor, Hispanic Studies, U. of Northern Colorado

  • Muhammad Ahmad

    as Self - Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)

  • J. Edgar Hoover

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Malcolm X

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Kwame Ture

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Akinyele Umoja

    as Self - Professor, African American Studies, Georgia State U.

  • Geronimo Pratt

    as Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner

  • Laura Whitehorn

    as Self - Activist / Former Political Prisoner

  • Kathleen Cleaver

    as Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney

  • M. Wesley Swearingen

    as Self - Former FBI Special Agent

  • Fred Hampton

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Frank Church

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Mumia Abu-Jamal

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Mutulu Shakur

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Filiberto Ojeda Ríos

    as Self (archive footage)
Production Andres Alegría Producer
Production Prentis Hemphill Producer
Production Anita Johnson Producer
Production Claude Marks Producer
Camera Andres Alegría Camera Operator
Camera Claude Marks Camera Operator
Sound Andres Alegría Sound
Sound Claude Marks Sound
Camera Prentis Hemphill Additional Camera
Camera Camilo Landau Additional Camera
Sound Camilo Landau Original Music Composer
Writing Lincoln Bergman Writer

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