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Panther
This fictionalized history chronicles the far-reaching changes effected by the radical group the Black Panthers during the late 1960s since Vietnam vet Judge returns to his hometown of Oakland to find it beset by violence and police discrimination against African-Americans.
5 February 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
21 June 1944
9 September 1956, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
11 August 1926, San Francisco, California, USA
20 July 1961, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
9 January 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 February 1926, Rechnitz, Burgenland, Austria
13 July 1971
July 14, 2003
Doesn't really shed much light on the movement.October 06, 2006
In his fictionalized story, Van Peebles simplifies the history of the Black Panthers, doing harm to a subject that he presumably intends to honor. Panther suffers from the same narrative and stylistic problems that has plagued his earlier films.