Title: | Seven Songs for Malcolm X | |
Director 1: | John Akomfrah | |
Country: | UK | |
Year: | 1993 | |
length: | 55 mins | |
Colour/b-w: | colour | |
Genre: | documentary | |
Screenwriter: | John Akomfrah, Edward George | |
Cinematographer: | Arthur Jafa | |
Editor: | Joy Chamberlain | |
Producer: | Lina Gopaul | |
Production company: | Black Audio Film Collective Production in ass. with Channel 4 | |
Cast: | ||
Location: | TABB | |
TABB No.: | 59 | |
Synopsis: | The film tells the story of the African American activist Malcolm X from different perspectives. Friends, relatives, activists, cultural critics and filmmaker Spike Lee present a complex picture of the most effective spokesperson of the black Muslim organization Nation of Islam in the early 1960s. | |
Keyword 1: | Nation of Islam | |
Keyword 2: | Black Power | |
Keyword 3: | pride | |
Keyword 4: | Civil Rights Movement | |
Keyword 5: | independence | |
Keyword 6: | African American | |
Keyword 7: | 1960s | |
Keyword 8: | racial conflict | |
Keyword 9: | racism | |
Keyword 10: | violence | |
Text Reference 1: | Sneaking Ghosts Through the Back Door |
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