John Sinclair
As an emerging young poet in the mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed with Sinclair's own radical development. In 1968, while still working with the band, he conspicuously served as a founding member of the White Panther Party, a militantly anti-racist socialist group and counterpart of the Black Panther Party. Arrested for distribution of marijuana in 1969, Sinclair was given ten years in prison. The sentence was criticized by many as unduly harsh, and it galvanized a noisy protest movement led by prominent figures of the 1960s counterculture. He was freed on March 9, 1972, by the Michigan Supreme Court when the possession of marijuana law was declared unconstitutional.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.762 |
Birthday | 1941-10-02 |
Place of Birth | Flint, Michigan, USA |
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2002
MC5: A True Testimonial
7.5/4
This documentary, made over a period of eight years, tells the remarkable story of an extremely influential rock'n'roll band. Starting from their mid-...
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MC5: A True Testimonial
2007
Off the Road
0/0
Off The Road (directed by Laurence Petit-Jouvet): Peter Kowald on the road in the US, a road movie.
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Off the Road
2008
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
0/0
Documentary looking at how Detroit became home to a musical revolution that captured the sound of a nation in upheaval. In the early 60s, Motown tran...
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Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
2010
Requiem for Detroit?
6.4/8
A look at post-industrial Detroit and its burgeoning urban agricultural movement.
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Requiem for Detroit?
1999
MC5: Kick Out the Jams
8/2
Kick Out the Jams features many never before seen films of the MC5 as created by Leni Sinclair & conceptual artist Cary Loren during the peak of their...
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MC5: Kick Out the Jams
1989
Growing Up in America
10/1
Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other '60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his 19...
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