Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Born: April 24, 1954
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Mumia is an internationally-recognized award-winning journalist who has written eight books and countless articles and commentaries from a prison cell on death row in Pennsylvania. He has been writing since age 15, first as Minister of Information for the Philadelphia Black Panthers (1969-1971), then for numerous Philadelphia radio and print venues, including National Public Radio.

Movies for Mumia Abu-Jamal...

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Title: Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: Movie
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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COINTELPRO 101
Title: COINTELPRO 101
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 7, 2010
Type: Movie
COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.
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Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Title: Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most recognized death row inmate in the world today. In 1982, he was was tried and convicted for the murder of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Since then, the Abu-Jamal trial proceedings have come under scrutiny and today his case is one of the most contested legal cases in modern American history. A former Black Panther and now renowned author, his books and writings in venues as diverse as the Yale Law Review, Forbes, Nation and street-papers for the homeless, have led many to hail him the voice of the voiceless.
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The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
Title: The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana's prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners.
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In Prison My Whole Life
Title: In Prison My Whole Life
Character: Self
Released: January 18, 2008
Type: Movie
William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Zapatista
Title: Zapatista
Character: Self (voice)
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
"Zapatista" is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against a first world military. It is the story of a global movement that has fought 175,000 federal troops to a stand still and transformed Mexican and international political culture forever.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
Title: Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
Character: Himself
Released: March 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer and sentenced to death in a trial marked by controversial prosecutorial and defense tactics and charges of racism.
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All Power to the People!
Title: All Power to the People!
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the history of race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s and 70s. Covering the history of slavery, civil-rights activists, political assassinations and exploring the methods used to divide and destroy key figures of movements by government forces, the film then contrasts into Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies and the failure of the “War on Drugs”, forming a comprehensive view of the goals, aspirations and ultimate demise of the Civil Rights Movement…