Rewriting the History of the Black Panthers on Film

By Craig Hubert, BLOUIN ARTINFO Some documentaries simply report history. Others try to rewrite it. "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" belongs to the latter group and is better for it. Making its New York premiere on February 13 as the opening film of the Museum of Modern Art's annual Documentary Fortnight festival, "Vanguard" sets out to move against the dominant narrative of the activist group as outrageous provocateurs, presenting to the audience, through vigorous archival resea...