John Sinclair

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.

  • Title: John Sinclair
  • Popularity: 0.139
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1941-10-02
  • Place of Birth: Flint, Michigan, USA
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John Sinclair Movies

  • 2002
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    MC5: A True Testimonial

    MC5: A True Testimonial

    7.5 2002 HD

    This documentary, made over a period of eight years, tells the remarkable story of an extremely influential rock'n'roll band. Starting from their...

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  • 2007
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    Off the Road

    Off the Road

    1 2007 HD

    Off The Road (directed by Laurence Petit-Jouvet): Peter Kowald on the road in the US, a road movie.

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  • 2008
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    Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges

    Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges

    1 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    MC5: Kick Out the Jams

    MC5: Kick Out the Jams

    8 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Requiem for Detroit?

    Requiem for Detroit?

    6.4 2010 HD

    A look at post-industrial Detroit and its burgeoning urban agricultural movement.

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  • 1989
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    Growing Up in America

    Growing Up in America

    10 1989 HD

    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...

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