Panther (1995) on Netflix
Back in Oakland after Vietnam, Judge finds the city torn by violence and police discrimination. His friend Cy takes him to meet Bobby and Huey, who are organizing against the police.
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Plot summary
Judge, a Vietnam veteran, returns to Oakland and finds a city where African Americans face police discrimination and violence. Cy, a friend of his, describes a vigilante group that is forming to stand up to the police, and he brings Judge to meet the two men who lead it, Bobby and Huey. Judge joins their movement. Their group is the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, formed in Oakland in the middle of the 1960s. The semi-fictionalized account compresses roughly three years of the party's history, from 1966 to 1968, and at points uses black-and-white historical footage. Police pressure falls on Judge to inform against Huey.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Panther (1995)
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- Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, a major character in the film, called Panther "80 percent to 90 percent" untrue and "a false-light invasion of my privacy."
- The film was the first narrative feature to depict the Black Panther Party, following the organization from its founding through its decline in a compressed timeframe.
- The soundtrack single "Freedom (Theme from Panther)" was a collaboration among more than 60 female R&B singers and rappers, and it peaked at No. 45 on the Billboard Hot 100.
