Power

Power Movie Details:

Power Movie Cast & Characters:

• Charlie Adams as Self
• Baher Azmy as Self
• Paul Butler as Self
• Julian Go as Self
• Elizabeth Hinton as Self
• Redditt Hudson as Self
• Christy Lopez as Self
• Wesley Lowery as Self
• Stuart Schrader as Self
• Micol Seigel as Self
• Nikhil Pal Singh as Self
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor as Self
• George Yancy as Self

Storyline:

A cogent essay film inviting conscious engagement and reflection on a system of control that has gone largely unquestioned, Power is a sweeping chronicle of the history and evolution of policing in the U.S. With assured precision and deep insight, filmmaker Yance Ford (Strong Island (2017), U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling, 2017 Sundance Film Festival) compellingly argues that the perceived danger of race to the status quo is central to the origins of policing and to its unchecked expansion. Asking pointed, uncomfortable questions about privilege and class; about who belongs to the social order and who is excluded; and about our collective responsibility in actively or tacitly permitting those in power to escape accountability, Power confronts us with the prescient words of Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

About Power Movie:

Power is an American documentary film, written, directed, and produced by Yance Ford. It explores the scope and scale of the American police over hundreds of years.

It had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024. It also screened at CPH:DOX on March 18, 2024. It was also screened at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on May 1, 2024.

It was released in a limited release on May 10, 2024, prior to streaming on Netflix on May 17, 2024.