Kwame Ture

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Kwame Ture

Acting June 29, 1941

Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Kwame Ture was a prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from…

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American Experience

American Experience

6.5 1988 TV Show
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

7.6 2021 Movie
World in Action

World in Action

7.0 1963 TV Show
Black Panthers

Black Panthers

7.1 1968 Movie
The David Susskind Show

The David Susskind Show

7.0 1959 TV Show
Hollywood Black

Hollywood Black

3.0 2024 TV Show
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

7.5 2011 Movie
Helter Skelter: An American Myth

Helter Skelter: An American Myth

6.7 2020 TV Show
King in the Wilderness

King in the Wilderness

7.0 2018 Movie
LBJ

LBJ

5.9 1968 Movie
Mama Africa

Mama Africa

5.6 2011 Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

7.3 1970 Movie

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Kwame Ture was a prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2024
    Hollywood Black

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  2. 2023
    South to Black Power

    Movie Self

  3. 2021
    Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

    Movie Self - Activist (archive footage)

  4. 2020
    70 Years of Youth Revolt

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  5. 2020
    Helter Skelter: An American Myth

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  6. 2018
    King in the Wilderness

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  7. 2016
    Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)

    Movie Self

  8. 2011
    Mama Africa

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  9. 2011
    The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  10. 2010
    COINTELPRO 101

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  11. 2008
    Black Power Salute

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  12. 2001
    A Huey P. Newton Story

    Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  13. 1996
    All Power to the People!

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  14. 1990
    Berkeley in the Sixties

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  15. 1990
    The FBI's War on Black America

    Movie Self

  16. 1988
    American Experience

    TV show Self (archive footage)

More credits
  1. 1974
    Black at Yale: A Film Diary

    Movie Himself

  2. 1972
    Malcolm X

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  3. 1970
    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  4. 1969
    The Fall

    Movie

  5. 1968
    Black Panthers

    Movie Self

  6. 1968
    Huey!

    Movie

  7. 1968
    Tell Me Lies

    Movie Party Guest

  8. 1968
    LBJ

    Movie Self

  9. 1968
    From Protest to Resistance

    Movie Self

  10. 1968
    Revolution Underway

    Movie

  11. 1967
    Anatomy of Violence

    Movie Self

  12. 1967
    Ah, Sunflower

    Movie Self

  13. 1967
    After Civil Rights... Black Power

    Movie Self

  14. 1966
    Stokely Carmichael Press Conference

    Movie

  15. 1963
    World in Action

    TV show

  16. 1959
    The David Susskind Show

    TV show Self

  17. —
    Stokely Carmichael On Police Shootings, Black Nationalism and Developing a White Base

    Movie