Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing".

  • Title: Eldridge Cleaver
  • Popularity: 2.45
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1935-08-31
  • Place of Birth: Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
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  • Also Known As: Eldridge Leroy Cleaver, Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
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Eldridge Cleaver Movies

  • 1971
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    1 P.M. (One Parallel Movie)
    1 P.M. (One Parallel Movie)

    5.9 1971 HD

    Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Rip Torn

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  • 1968
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    Black Panthers
    Black Panthers

    7.109 1968 HD

    A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Huey P. Newton

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  • 1968
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    Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
    Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)

    1 1968 HD

    A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Eldridge Cleaver

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  • 1971
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    Congo Oyé (We Have Come Back)
    Congo Oyé (We Have Come Back)

    1 1971 HD

    An absolute unknown work among Marker’s collaborations, made by filmmakers Bill Stephens, Paul and Carole Roussopoulas with Eldridge and...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Eldridge Cleaver

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  • 1970
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    Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
    Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther

    8.4 1970 HD

    The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

    Genre: History

    Cast: Eldridge Cleaver

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  • 2001
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    A Huey P. Newton Story
    A Huey P. Newton Story

    5.2 2001 HD

    The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Roger Guenveur Smith

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  • 1969
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    Repression
    Repression

    1 1969 HD

    The important L.A. Newsreel film about the Black Panthers that was rediscovered and written about by USC professor David James. Featured in the film...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Masai Hewitt

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  • 1980
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    A Decade of Struggle
    A Decade of Struggle

    1 1980 HD

    This special three-part presentation of "Like It Is" examines the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States, emphasizing the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Gil Noble

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  • 1970
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    Around South Central
    Around South Central

    1 1970 HD

    Documentary about the West Coast Black Panthers, the deadly crackdown by the FBI and police forces.

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    Cast: Bobby Seale

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  • 2015
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    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    7 2015 HD

    The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Kathleen Cleaver

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  • 1999
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    Leaving Cleaver
    Leaving Cleaver

    1 1999 HD

    In March 1997, social activist, former Black Panther, and author, Eldridge Cleaver sat down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a discussion of his life...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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  • 1996
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    All Power to the People!
    All Power to the People!

    5.8 1996 HD

    Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Mumia Abu-Jamal

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  • 1972
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    Malcolm X
    Malcolm X

    6.4 1972 HD

    James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Earl Jones

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  • 1990
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    COINTELPRO: The FBI's War on Black America
    COINTELPRO: The FBI's War on Black America

    8 1990 HD

    Through a secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), there was a concerted effort to subvert the will of the people to...

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    Cast: H. Rap Brown

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