Black and Blue

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 58 min
  • Premiere: 1987. April 10.

A film by Hugh King and Lamar Williams - a powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force. Community leaders, politicians, police officers, survivors of police brutality and sympathizers unravel a pattern of biased violent police behavior from the tenure of Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo to the bombing of Osage Avenue. This documentary is a testimony to long-standing tensions between police and people of color in communities throughout the United States.

Discover

Barbara Grant

Narrator

Directing

Lamar Williams

Director

Hugh L. King

Director

Editing

Esther Croft

Editorial Consultant

Production

Hugh L. King

Producer

Lamar Williams

Producer

Sound

Allan Sukennik

Original Music Composer

Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Original Music Composer