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Power
Directed by
Yance Ford
R
2024
88m
Documentary
6.1
79%
53%
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Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.
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Cast of Power
Charlie Adams
Self - Police Inspector, Minneapolis Police Department, 4th Precinct
Nikhil Pal Singh
Self - Professor, New York University, Author, Race and America's Long War
Julian Go
Self - Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago, Author, Patterns of Empire
Aaron Bekemeyer
Self - Lecturer in Modern History, Harvard University
Wesley Lowery
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author
George Yancy
Self - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
Micol Seigel
Self - Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Author, Violence Work
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Self - Professor, Northwestern University, Author, Race for Profit
Stuart Schrader
Self - Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Author, Badges Without Borders
Kalfani Ture
Self - Former Police Officer, Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Mary's University
Christy Lopez
Self - Professor, Georgetown Law, Former Deputy Chief, USDOJ Civil Rights Division
Baher Azmy
Self - Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
Elizabeth Hinton
Self - Historian, Yale University, Author, America on Fire
Nilesh V
Self - Former New York City Resident
Paul Butler
Self - Professor, Georgetown Law, Author, Chokehold
Barry Friedman
Self - Director, NYU Policing Project, Author, Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Redditt Hudson
Self - Former Police Officer, Co-Founder National Coalition of Law Enforcement Officers for Justice
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self - 36th President of the United States
Richard Nixon
Self - 37th President of the United States
Ronald Reagan
Self - 40th President of the United States
George H. W. Bush
Self - 41st President of the United States
Bill Clinton
Self - 42nd President of the United States
Barack Obama
Self - 44th President of the United States
Donald Trump
Self - 45th President of the United States
Joe Biden
Self - 46th President of the United States
Kwame Ture
Self - Chairman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Michael Chertoff
Self - Homeland Security Secretary 2005 - 2009
Homer S. Cummings
Self - U.S. Attorney General 1933 - 1939
Ben Gazzara
Self - Host, The Police Film
J. Edgar Hoover
Self - FBI Director 1935 - 1972
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self - Civil Rights Leader
Rodney King
Self - Victim of Police Brutality
Roger Mudd
Self - Journalist, CBS News
Huey P. Newton
Self - Black Panther Party
Harry Reasoner
Self - Host, CBS Evening News
August Vollmer
Self - First Chief of Police of Berkeley, CA 1905-1932
Derek Chauvin
Self
George Perry Floyd Jr.
Self
Eric Garner
Self
Martin Gugino
Self - Police Shoving Victim
Kim Potter
Self - Police Officer Convicted of Manslaughter
Tou Thao
Self - Convicted Police Officer
Power Ratings & Reviews
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
"Power" makes an intellectual argument, but it's built on a visceral foundation, purposefully bleeding from past generations into the current one.
Decider
John Serba
Power channels its rage into a calm, collected and persuasive argument.
Common Sense Media
Monique Jones
Power wants viewers to be haunted by what they've seen. It wants us to use that feeling as a conduit for change.
Nonfics (Substack)
Christopher Campbell
It's a rich but fairly uncomplicated examination, and while it could be said that it overstates some of its points, it's never disengaging.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
It's missing a sense of urgency that would seem necessary for the subject...
Geek Vibes Nation
M.N. Miller
Yance Ford's documentary film commands your attention and should make the ones in power uncomfortable in their own skin.
Paste Magazine
Jacob Oller
When you're grappling with a leviathan like America's militarized police state, being timely and accessible isn't nearly enough.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Andy Klein
A concise and informative documentary... It's a complex analysis made very clear.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
"Power" could just as easily have benefited from the docuseries treatment, but even at less than 90 minutes, it lands plenty of hard truths and harder questions.
Next Best Picture
Josh Parham
The concepts introduced in "Power" are inherently alluring. What makes it all the more potent is how this history still lingers within our society to this day.
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
The goal of "Power" is to call police brutality into question, not put it on trial.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Provocative and timely, but tedious, exhausting and undercooked.
Slant Magazine
Greg Nussen
Throughout Power, Yance Ford draws a startlingly clear line from the origins of modern policing as a slave patrol to its present-day iteration.
Screen Zealots
Louisa Moore
An educational but not overly academic documentary that tackles the uglier side of American history when it comes to policing the country's citizens.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jourdain Searles
Interrogating the phrase "law and order," Power makes plain the police's role in maintaining an unfair class system.
Autostraddle
Drew Gregory
It is meant to be an introduction - a teaching tool ideal for classrooms or for adults open to change.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
"Power" circles around topics, often repeating bullet points without ever discovering a unique approach to the material.
TheWrap
Lex Briscuso
One of the most powerful documentaries ever put to film
Variety
Siddhant Adlakha
The decision to take a top-down view of systemic violence also ends up being embodied by a sense of personal detachment in the filmmaking.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
"Power" achieves a profoundly unsettling sweep by prioritizing breadth over depth...
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