Mumia Abu-Jamal
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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.
This film tells the story of three former members of the Black Panther Party incarcerated at Angola Louisiana State Prison in solitary confinement longer than anyone in modern US history and collectively known as the Angola 3.
With exclusive access and interviews with SubcomandanteMarcos, Noam Chomsky and others, Zapatista is the definitive look atthe Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for thepresent and the future. January1, 1994. The day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comesinto effect. A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico,several thousand Mayan soldiers take over haf the state of Chiapas,declaring a war against the global corporate power they say rulesMexico. They call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army(EZLN). Zapatista is the definitive look at the uprising inChiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticksand their word against a first world military. It is the story of aglobal movement that has fought 175,000 federal troops to a standstilland transformed Mexican and international political culture forever.
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.
