Movie Review - 'The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975' - A Black Power Chronicle, Seen From Afar : NPR: It probably never occurred to most students of the American black power movement that they should know more about the Swedish outlook on Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis. But that's what The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 provides — a view from abroad, from a country with a particular enthusiasm for the American dissidents of the day — and it's pretty interesting, if far from definitive.
Assembled from 16mm footage shot for Swedish television, most of it in black and white, the documentary takes a chronological approach to the civil rights movement, the Black Panthers and related phenomena. The years covered seem to coincide with Sweden's period of greatest disgust with the U.S., which is clearly linked to the Vietnam War. (Director Goran Hugo Olsson doesn't have much left to say after Saigon falls.)
