📜 Overview:
COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
2010-05-07
⌚ Running Time:
56 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
0.0
Beloved Cast
Self / Narrator (voice)
Liz Derias
Self - Attorney
Bob Boyle
Self - Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Jose Lopez
Self - Puerto Rican Independentista / Former Political Prisoner
Lucy Rodriguez
Self - Native American Activist/Author
Ward Churchill
Self - Native American Activist/Author
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Self - Political Prisoner
Leonard Peltier
Self - Al Frente de Lucha; Greeley, CO
Ricardo Romero
Self - Chicano/Mexicano Activist & Attorney
Francísco "Kiko" Martinez
Self - Professor, Hispanic Studies, U. of Northern Colorado
Priscilla Falcon
Self - Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)
Muhammad Ahmad
Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Kwame Ture
Self - Professor, African American Studies, Georgia State U.
Akinyele Umoja
Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner
Geronimo Pratt
Self - Activist / Former Political Prisoner
Laura Whitehorn
Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney
Kathleen Cleaver
Self - Former FBI Special Agent
M. Wesley Swearingen
Self (archive footage)
Fred Hampton
Self (archive footage)
Frank Church
Self (archive footage)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self (archive footage)
Mutulu Shakur
Self (archive footage)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
