A film by Lee Lew Lee Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race conflict in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the mid-1960s it also explores the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and covers slavery, civil-rights activists, assassinations in the '60s, and it explores methods used to divide and destroy key figures. It moves beyond that era into covering Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies, and the failure of the War on Drugs.