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7.0/10
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Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 17 nominations
Martin Luther King
- Self
- (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
- Self - FBI Director
- (archive footage)
David Garrow
- Self - Author, Bearing the Cross
- (as David J. Garrow)
Clarence B. Jones
- Self - Attorney, Speechwriter for Martin Luther King, Jr
- (as Clarence Jones)
H. Rap Brown
- Self - Civil Rights Activist
- (archive footage)
Arthur Goldberg
- Self - Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
- (archive footage)
Merv Griffin
- Self - TV Host
- (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Self - 36th President of the United States
- (archive footage)
Kenneth Keating
- Self - U.S. Senator from New York
- (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
- Self - 35th President of the United States
- (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
- Self - Former United States Attorney General
- (archive footage)
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Did you know
- TriviaOfficially released on what would have been the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 92nd birthday.
- Quotes
Self - Author, Bearing the Cross: The FBI was not a renegade agency. It was fundamentally a part, a core part of the existing mainstream American political order.
- ConnectionsFeatures I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)
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The film is tightly structured and narrated over archive footage of king, with some other contemporary footage mixed in. In terms of visual material, the film does not bring any new unforseen archive films to the table and a lot of the images used in the film are used several times. With the original sound bites however, the film does a great job in opening the context to the audiences. What the film lacks in new visual material, it gains in its content as it is based on new research of the FBI archives. Great learning material for history or social studies classes.
- severajaaho
- Jan 31, 2021
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $45,200
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $21,603
- Jan 17, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $91,833
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
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