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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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