Martin Luther King Jr. Movies

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an...

On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that...

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F....

For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show...

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson,...

A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

Documentary film focuses on the Civil Rights leader's many groundbreaking accomplishments. Footage covers Dr. King's war on poverty and his staunch...

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thoughts of a diversity of public and private citizens on the virtues of democracy, its faults, its decadence, its fall and the rise of populism.

Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the...

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s....

"Rigged" shows viewers just what Republicans did – and continue to do – from creating new barriers to voter registration, to purging...

Oscar nominated documentary short from 2002

Relive an unspeakable tragedy detailed with unforgettable images, videos, and recordings only recently rediscovered.

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

The March, also known as The March to Washington, is a 1964 documentary film by James Blue about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. It was...

This feature documentary deeply explores Dr. King, his experience, his legacy and the Movement at large through key events – The Montgomery Bus...

Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the...