Between the dates in this film's title, the civil rights movement in America was making huge strides, as well as causing great controversy. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, and influenced by the ideas of Malcolm X, groups such as The Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam actively provoked the establishment while confronting racism and seeking to improve the living conditions and future prospects of black Americans. From Memphis to Attica, inquisitive Swedish news reporters covered key moments in the struggle, and the remarkable footage they collected has been buried in the vaults of the nation's television archives for years. Filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson has resurrected that footage in order to revisit an incendiary period that changed the social and political climate in America forever. Figures such as Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, Huey P Newton and Louis Farrakhan appear, and the lasting legacy of their actions and rhetoric is illustrated in commentary from musicians and artists including Erykah Badu, John Forté, Melvin Van Peebles, Talib Kweli and Harry Belafonte.

Michael Hayden