Written, Produced and Directed by
Stanley Nelson
Produced by
Laurens Grant
Edited by
Aljernon Tunsil
Music Composed by
Tom Phillips
Associate Producer
Nicole London
Assistant Producer/Researcher
Sam Aleshinloye
Associate Editor
Rebecca Sherwood
Cinematography by
Antonio Rossi
Rick Butler
Allen Moore
Cliff Charles
Sound Recordists
JT Takagi
Gautam Choudhury
Lauretta Molitor
Caleb Mose
J. Leo Randolph
Jose Smith
Claudia Katayanagi
Ron Thompson
Greg Quedens
Patrick Ulysse
Online Editor/Colorist
Don Wyllie
Assistant Online Editor
Bahron Thomas
Post Production Facility
Frame:Runner
Supervising Sound-Editor + Re-Recording Mixer
Benny Mouthon, CAS
Sound Editor
Brian Bracken
Animation and Graphics
Garry Waller
Molly Schwartz
vanOs
Additional Editing
Lewis Erskine
2nd Assistant Editor
Jamal El-Amin
Media Managers
Gregory Brutus
Robel Butler
Nate Horowitz
Margaret Sclafani
Archival Research
Lewanne Jones
2nd Associate Producer
Rebecca Kent
Production Assistants
Seth Cooper
Benjamin Frankenberg
Jaime Lucero Jr.
Sahra Mellesse
Darryl Wilson
Jim Wall
Guitarist/Bassist
Jeff Thomas
Consultants
Pat Thomas
Charles E. Jones
Kenneth O’Reilly
Kathleen Cleaver
Voice-Over Actors
Angela Arnold
Erica Ball
Rhon G. Flatts
Eric Lockley
Nola Nelson
Stu Richel
Jason Torres
Trudy Williams
Music Supervisor
Peter Miller
Production Interns
Avram Billig
Jessica Clark
Bianca Dang
Diandra Durand
Lucy Flores
Yasmin Garcia
Mitchell Gersten
Tommy Hawkins
Reggie Travis Hicks
Hilary Hughley
Riley Linebaugh
Jordan Miller
Javier Eduardo Muñoz
Raquel Stewart
Miranda Sullivan
Annalise Tompkins
Javier Vazquez
Lauren Wimbush
Jia Yu Wu
Archival Materials Courtesy of:
Stills
Associated Press
The Baltimore Sun
Howard L. Bingham
Nacio Jan Brown
Elbert ‘Big Man’ Howard
Chicago Defender Archives
Corbis
Emory Douglas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Billy X Jennings
Franklin McMahon
Getty Images
Globe Photos/ZUMAPRESS
Howard Harawitz
Image Fortress Corp
Jeffrey Blankfort
John Shearer
Jonathan Eubanks
Kenneth Green, Sr.
Los Angeles Times
Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos
Hiroji Kubota/ Magnum Photos
Guy Le Querrec /Magnum Photos
Paul Sequeira
Philadelphia Daily News
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pirkle Jones & Ruth-Marion Baruch © MCF
Ron Riesterer
Sacramento Bee/ZUMAPRESS
The Seattle Times
Stephen Shames/Polaris Images
Lisbet Tellefson
Tribune Content Agency
Verna Sadock
Washington State Archives
Bill Wingell
Oakland Tribune/ Bay Area News Group East Bay, LLC
Bob Olender, Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
Daily Worker/Daily World Photographs Collection Tamiment Library, New York University
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, Philadelphia, PA
Howard Robbins /San Francisco Examiner Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[Reproduction number e.g., LC-L9-60-8812, frame 8].
© Estate of Howard Brodie, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-123456]
Footage
ABC Videosource
AP Archives
BBC Motion Gallery
Black Panthers, © Agnès Varda 1968
Center for Sacramento History, KCRA TV Film Collection
Chicago Film Archives
Critical Past
Efootage
Freedom Archives
Getty Images International / BBC Worldwide
The Film Group
Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA)
ITN Archive Limited
KGO-TV
KPIX-TV
KRON-TV
KQED-TV
KTVU-TV FOX 2
Mark Kitchell
William Klein
Morley Markson
National Archives and Records Administration
NBC News Archives
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
Roz Payne
Oddball Film & Video
Producer’s Library
San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
Sveriges TV AB
T3Media
Third World Newsreel
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Washington University Film & TV Archive
White House Communications Agency
WGBH Media Library & Archives
WNET
WMAR-TV
“The David Frost Show” from the holdings of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
“Firing Line” appears courtesy of Hoover Institution Archives
"The Mike Douglas Show" courtesy of CBS Television Distribution
“Soul Train” appears courtesy of Soul Train Holdings, LLC
Additional Footage provided courtesy of Maysles Films, Inc
Music
“Am I Black Enough for You”
Written by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff
Courtesy of Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Co. (BMI)
Performed by Billy Paul
Courtesy of Legacy Recordings
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
“(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People”
Written by Eugene Record
Courtesy of Unichappel Music, Inc. (BMI)
Performed by the Chi-Lites
Courtesy of Brunswick Record Corporation
“We Know We Got to Live Together”
Written by Ellis E. Blacknell
Performed by Eugene Blacknell and the New Breed
Courtesy of Ellis Eugene Blacknell, Jr.
“Damn Right I Am Somebody”
Written by James Brown and Fred Wesley
Courtesy of Dynatone Publishing Company (BMI)
Administered by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI)
Performed by Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s
Courtesy of Republic Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
“Black Is”
Written by Umar Bin Hassan
Performed by The Last Poets
Courtesy of Umar Bin Hassan
“Express Yourself”
Written by Charles Wright
Courtesy of Music Power/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)
All rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
Performed by Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
"Winter in America"
Music and Lyrics by Gil Scott-Heron
Courtesy of The Estate of Gil Scott-Heron/Rumal Rackley Administrator
“Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
Written and Performed by Jimi Hendrix
Special Thanks
Sultan Ahmad
Earl Leon Anthony
Paul Bass
Ed Boyer
Taylor Branch
James T. Campbell
Kia Campbell
Harry Carey
Jeff Carlton
Mel and Marilyn Cherman
Jennifer Chien
Doug Coronado
Sara W. Duke
David Fenton
Janice A Garrett-Forté
Fred Hampton, Jr.
J. Daniel Johnson
Antonio Lopez
National Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party
Alondra Nelson
Albert Preciado
Jane Rhodes
Virgil Roberts
Tolbert Small
Kellita Smith
Karin Stanford
J Alfred Smith
Flint Taylor
For Firelight Films
Executive Director
Marcia A. Smith
Deputy Director
Loira Limbal
Communications
Nicole Moore
For ITVS
Executive Producer
Sally Jo Fifer
Deputy Executive Producer
Lois Vossen
Supervising Producer
Amy Shatsky
Funding Provided by
Ford Foundation
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution is a co-production of Firelight Films, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
This film was produced by Firelight Films, Inc., which is solely responsible for its content.
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