Power

Power

2024•1h 28m•6.9/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.9/10(15)

Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power.

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Production

Story Syndicate, Multitude Films, Corvidae Media

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Yance Ford

Yance Ford

Narrator (voice)

Charlie Adams

Self - Police Inspector, Minneapolis PD

Nikhil Pal Singh

Self - Professor, NYU

Julian Go

Self - Professor of Sociology, UChicago

Aaron Bekemeyer

Self - Lecturer, Harvard University

Wesley Lowery

Self - Journalist & Author

George Yancy

Self - Professor of Philosophy, Emory University

Micol Seigel

Self

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Self

Stuart Schrader

Self

Kalfani Ture

Self

Christy Lopez

Self

Huey P. Newton

Huey P. Newton

Self (archive footage)

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