Cast
Kathleen Cleaver
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Julian Bond
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]
Jamal Joseph
Self - Black Panther Party
Blair Anderson
Self - Black Panther Party
Omar Barbour
Self - Black Panther Party
Elaine Brown
Self - Black Panther Party
Scot Brown
Self - Historian
William Calhoun
Self - Black Panther Party
Clayborne Carson
Self - Historian
Eldridge Cleaver
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Dennis Cunningham
Self - Attorney
Emory Douglas
Self - Black Panther Party
Flores Forbes
Self - Black Panther Party
Sherwin Forte
Self - Black Panther Party
Ronald Freeman
Self - Black Panther Party
Roland Freeman
Self - Black Panther Party
Beverly Gage
Self - Historian
Ray Gaul
Self - Oakland Police Department
Jeff Haas
Self - Attorney
Fred Hampton
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Edward Hanrahan
Self - State's Attorney (archive footage) (as Edward V. Hanrahan)
Elbert Howard
Self - Black Panther Party (as Elbert 'Big Man' Howard)
Ericka Huggins
Self - Black Panther Party
Phyllis Jackson
Self - Black Panther Party
Deborah Johnson
Self - Black Panther Party (as Akua Njeri [Deborah Johnson])
Mike Klonsky
Self - Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]
Mark Kurlansky
Self - Writer
Bob Lee
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
David Lemieux
Self - Black Panther Party
Tarika Lewis
Self - Black Panther Party
Felipe Luciano
Self - Young Lords
Ron McCarthy
Self - Los Angeles Police Department
Crew
Directing
Stanley Nelson
Director
Editing
Aljernon Tunsil
Editor
Production
Laurens Grant
Producer
Sally Jo Fifer
Executive Producer
Jennifer Crystal Chien
Production Manager
Stanley Nelson
Producer
Nicole London
Associate Producer
Rebecca Kent
Associate Producer
Benjamin Frankenberg
Production Assistant
Writing
Stanley Nelson
Writer