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List Price: $29.95 | | Label: Polygram Video
Salesrank: 98022
Released: December 22, 1998 |
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| Used Price: $164.99 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This simple-minded account of the Black Panther Party is insulting to anybody who ever admired the positive qualities of the organization or at the very least took their militancy seriously. Melvin Van Peebles wrote the thin script, and son Mario directs it with little of the penetrating and expansive sensibility necessary to understand the subject in its broadest context. The presence of a big cast with a lot of familiar names and faces--including real-life Panther contemporaries Jerry Rubin and Dick Gregory--give the project a false air of importance. --Tom Keogh
Panther Reviews:
Just to put some honesty on This Page 
2009-10-01 - The outrageous prices that are being asked for this film should tell you something about it's quality. The fact that the manufacturer has discontinued it should say more. As a former member of this belittled and demised organization i can attest to it's portrayal as totally fact based. There is plenty of literature available on the infamous Co-intelpro operations that will back up this statement. The movie was well played by all involved, well directed and it's impact on the viewer is just as intended. This is a movie about an important part of this countries history that I was able to witness as well as be a part of. To call it a lie is a continued insult to the intelligence of the American public. You don't have to like the movie but please research The Governments Co-Intelpro operations before you call it 2 hours of lies. Great Movie!!
not good. 
2009-08-08 - First the dvd would not play in my player. Instead of it being in english like I wanted, it was in German. I would seriouslly review the outfits you do business with.
Are you kidding me? 
2009-04-05 - Why has this video not been release on mass market DVD? Is the industry really trying to kill off this film? It exist s virtually no where, and while I realize it is a bit radical, it needs to be out there for public consumption. I know many people whom have never even heard of this film, and that include professors of black and Afro-American studies programs. Please make this into a DVD so that it can be watched as another view of the Black American experience in America. If I have to watch Marci X, or another film that follows the traditional HW stereotypes, I swear I am gonna be sick. We need more films that can portray the humanity of people, all people. At least this breaks the mold of " anotha nigga eatin water melon, or acting a fool". Please let people see what it took to shake America into being able to have a man like Mr. Obama as a President of the USA. It took a struggle of a Peoplehood in many forms, stop with the sugar coated history.
Desperate
2009-01-30 - Plz.. If there is anyone out there that know where I can get a copy let me know. I have been looking everywhere for a copy Blackgirl of you are out there you siad you found one at the library. Also, I loved the movie I think it hit some of the high points of the Black Panther movement. And I dont know why they took it off the selves. And them prices are crazy are they serious Im willing to pay 25 to 30 so if you have one to sell hit me up
10 stars
2009-01-11 - Can't say to much everything was already said but my review is on the video version not to take away from the vhs but the video has a lot more extras very very hard to find anyway 10 stars.
