Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

Ward Churchill

Self - Native American Activist/Author

Leonard Peltier

Self - Political Prisoner

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Kwame Ture

Self (archive footage)

Geronimo Pratt

Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner

Kathleen Cleaver

Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney

Fred Hampton

Self (archive footage)

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self (archive footage)