MLK/FBI

(2020)

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Synopsis

A documentary about what a former FBI agent calls the darkest part of their agency's history, the film features recently declassified files to unearth how the agency branded and targeted Martin Luther King Jr. as an enemy of the state in the '60s, at the time when the assassinated reverend was beginning to rise to national fame and influence as a leader of the civil rights movement.

Directors

Sam Pollard

Production year

2020

Rating

PG

Studio

IFC Films

Runtime

104 minutes

Cast

J. Edgar Hoover, David Garrow, Martin Luther King Jr.