MLK/FBI

2020
12
1h 44m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.8K

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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.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.8K

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Awards
- 6 wins & 17 nominations total

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Shaun Bowman

Movie goer

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)

Charles Knox

Self - Federal Bureau of Investigation, Retired…

Donna Murch

Self - Rutgers University, Author, Living in the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panthers

Marc Perrusquia

Self - Journalist
(voice)

Andrew Young

Self - Southern Christian Leadership Conference, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Mayor of Atlanta

James Comey

Self - Director of the FBI, 2013 - 2017
(voice)

Beverly Gage

Self - Yale University, Author, G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century

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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- Sam Pollard
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Featured review

8/10

The policy of suspicion

The FBI begins spying on MLK on suspicion of communist activities and ends up spying on his sex life. It is the disease of the moral watchers. The documentary accurately narrates these espionage activities that move against the defense of human rights. Through well selected archival material, it is a necessary film to show the moral baseness of those who considered themselves protectors of moral integrity. It is the danger of a policy based on constant suspicion.

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Trivia
Officially 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.