The first film to uncover the extent of the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, the documentary explores the government's history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished id...
MLK/FBI(2020) Andrew Young Self - Southern Christian Leadership Conference, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Mayor of Atlanta Fandango at the Wall(2020) James Comey Self - Director of the FBI, 2013 - 2017 (voice) ...
Based on recently declassified files, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Pollard explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.Related Videos 2:29 MLK/FBI MLK/FBI 1:08 I Am Not Your Negro I Am Not Your Negro 1:01 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: A Historical Pe...
MLK/FBI (12) Director: Sam Pollard Runtime: 104 minutes Cast: Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Beverly Gage, David J. Garrow, Andrew Young, Donna Murch, James Comey, Clarence Jones, Charles Knox, Marc Perrusquia. Synopsis: Based on newly declassified files, Sam
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For anyone familiar with America’s modern history, it is known that FBI director-for-life J. Edgar Hoover had a “thing” against Martin Luther King, whom he termed “the most dangerous Negro in America.” Doc-maker Sam Pollard, accessing recently declassified FBI files about that “thing,...
(Editor, 4 LITTLE GIRLS, MO’ BETTER BLUES; Director/Producer, EYEZ ON THE PRIZE, SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME) lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of ...
The FBI's monitoring of King has long been known to historians, as has some of the information it revealed — notably King's multiple extramarital affairs — but the documents themselves offer new details and revelations to grapple with. (For instance, in 2019, biographer David Garrow discovered...
MLKFBI (2020), directed by Sam Pollard, starring Martin Luther King, James Comey, David Garrow, Clarence B. Jones