| Title: | Who Needs A Heart | |
| Director 1: | John Akomfrah | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1993 | |
| length: | 80 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | drama-documentary | |
| Screenwriter: | John Akomfrah, Edward George | |
| Cinematographer: | Nancy Schiesari | |
| Editor: | Brand Thumim | |
| Producer: | Lina Gopaul | |
| Production company: | Black Audio Film Collective Production | |
| Cast: | Caroline Burghard, Treva Ettienne, Caroline Lee Johnson; Kwabena Manso | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 57 | |
| Synopsis: | The American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, the emergence of the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam's Malcolm X had an effect far beyond the shores of the United States. This film explores the effect of these American currents in the lives of a close-knit group in Britain around 'Michael X'. The story is told in flashbacks from 1972 and covers the nine previous years. | |
| Keyword 1: | black | |
| Keyword 2: | independence | |
| Keyword 3: | Civil Rights Movement | |
| Keyword 4: | England | |
| Keyword 5: | Michael X | |
| Keyword 6: | 1960s | |
| Text Reference 1: | Ghosts of Stories: Black Audio Film Collective's "Who Needs a Heart" | |
| Text Reference 2: | Black and White: Interview with John Akomfrah | |
| Text Reference 3: | Imaged Communities: Black British Film in the Eighties and Nineties | |
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