The Murder of Fred Hampton

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The Murder of Fred Hampton

1971

1h 28m

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The circumstances surrounding the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton by Chicago police.

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A.H. Weiler

New York Times

Although it is unabashedly biased and it is flawed in technical execution, it emerges as a disturbingly somber illustration of some of the ills that beset us and our social system.

Jun 5, 2020

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Spencer Parsons

Austin Chronicle

One has to ask who ultimately needed armed protection more: the police and the people of Chicago or Fred Hampton?

Jun 5, 2020

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

As a first draft of history, this is invaluable, though its topical relevance has hardly diminished.

Oct 19, 2017

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

His words remain a clarion call to resist fascism, resist capitalism, and to live for each other, to live for your community, to live — and if need be to die — for what you know is right.

Aug 5, 2024

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Murder remains true to its radical political era in being more angrily agitative than something with a pretense of journalistic "neutrality." But it's a powerful historical artifact...

Sep 13, 2021

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Prairie Miller

Counterpunch.org

The film illuminates the magnetic fervor, militant eloquence, and sheer infectious ideological energy of "living high on the people," that 'Chairman Fred' embodied.

May 20, 2007

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Dallas H

Why does it feel like not much has changed with the social dynamics in our country over the last sixty years?

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/25

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delysid d

really an incredible look at the cult-like black panthers

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/08/22

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Audience Member

The cinÃ©ma vÃ©ritÃ© style of this documentary made the vicious, government-spearheaded murder of Fred Hampton all the more horrific and surreal. No talking heads from 30 years later interrupt the mesmerizing and terrifying flow to the inevitable. This slaughter as Jesse Jackson suggested in Hampton's eulogy led to "black people in particular, and decent people in general, [bleeding] everywhere."

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Howard Alk

Director

Mike Gray

Producer

Fred Baker

Executive Producer

Howard Alk

Cinematographer

Mike Gray

Cinematographer

Howard Alk

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Synopsis

The circumstances surrounding the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton by Chicago police.

Director: Howard Alk
Producer: Mike Gray
Production Co: The Film Group, Chicago
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 19, 2016
Runtime: 1h 28m

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