Mumia : Long Distance Revolutionary / First-Run Features (Firm).

Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a journalist and writer. After more than 30 years in prison, Mumia continues to report, educate, provoke and inspire. Stephen Vittoria's feature documentary is a sympathetic portrait of a man whom many...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors: Infobase (Film distributor)
First-Run Features (Firm)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : First-Run Features (Firm), [2011]
Series:Films on Demand.
Subjects:
Internet videos.
Genre:
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 0 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
Long Distance Revolutionary
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a journalist and writer. After more than 30 years in prison, Mumia continues to report, educate, provoke and inspire. Stephen Vittoria's feature documentary is a sympathetic portrait of a man whom many consider America's most famous political prisoner. Through prison interviews, archival footage, and dramatic readings, and aided by voices including Cornel West, Alice Walker, Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Amy Goodman, this riveting film explores Mumia's life before, during and after Death Row. It shows us the racial tensions in the Philadelphia where Mumia grew up and became a Black Panther, and local and federal governments' war against the Black Panthers. It covers the movement to free Mumia, and his own writing and commentary from prison.
Note:Originally released by First-Run Features (Firm), 2011.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 26, 2015.
Interest Grade Level:
11 & up.
System Details:Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Source of Description:
Title from distributor's description (Infobase, Nov. 2, 2015)