Sprinter (2018)

Wednesday, October 24, Freer|Sackler Gallery of Art
Runtime: 112 min

A Jamaican teen, burdened by an unstable father and an unruly older brother, hopes a meteoric rise in track-and-field can reunite him with his mother, who has lived illegally in the United States for more than a decade.

Baldwin's Nigger (1968)

James Baldwin and comedian-activist Dick Gregory speak to a group of radical West Indian students in London about everything from the state of the civil rights movement to the perils of false consciousness.

Black Liberation (aka Silent Revolution) (1967)

Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African-American struggle.

Black Panthers (1968)

Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton.

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Sprinter (2018)

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