"The Spook That Sat By The Door"

9 Molotov Cocktails out of 10

This was a powerful civil rights message movie from the early 1970s.

This film was at one time banned out of fear that its content would further spark riots and widen the black civil rights revolution. It's a film of its time in the production area (very low budget T.V. show look), but its core message of "freedom" and how to fight the establishment is still as relevant as ever.

It's the story of how the CIA felt it had to recruit some African Americans to help them politicaly, but the agency had no intention to respect or embrace these new agents. One of the agents spends a number of years learning the tricks of the trade, then quits and returns to the slums to teach "his people" what he had learned in order to turn these tactics back on "The Man", and free the ghetto from racist oppression. The full film is on YouTube if anyone cares to see it.