The Murder of Fred Hampton began as a film portrait of Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party, but half way through the shoot, Hampton was murdered by Chicago policeman. In an infamous moment in ...

Fred Hampton Black Panthers in Chicago (1969) Movie NR 24 min Dec 31st, 1969 Documentary ...

The Murder of Fred Hampton (Facets) DVD documentary chronicles the untimely death of the Black Panther party chairman, 21 year old Fred Hampton.

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The documentary (1971) presents Hampton as a charismatic figure given to violent revolutionary rhetoric, but after his death the focus shifts to Cook County state’s attorney Ed Hanrahan, whose ...

+ A 27-minute documentary film— Death of a Black Panther: The Fred Hampton Story. was made shortly after his killing. + In the 1999 TV mini-series The 60s, Fred appears, serving free breakfasts.

Obviously there were no smart phones in 1969, and police brutality went unchecked virtually without exception. Alk and Gray’s 1971 film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, changed that.

The Film Group, the Chicago production company that made “The Murder of Fred Hampton,” began this documentary before Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was killed in a ...

Just before Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and I connected over the phone last Saturday, he received a text message from a schoolteacher. Hampton had shared a short documentary about his father—the ...

It’s the rare film that decades later can seem as timely as it was the day it came out. The searing documentary “The Murder of Fred Hampton” is such a film. Directed in 1971 by Howard Alk ...

Jeffrey Haas, author of "The Assassination of Fred Hampton..." Attorney Jeffrey Haas, author of "The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther ...

We speak with Fred Hampton’s widow and son about the Oscar-nominated film. It’s a story many Chicagoans know, but since the Oscar-nominated film “Judas and the Black Messiah” was released ...