Coming to select theatres and to VOD tomorrow, Friday, January 15:
MLK/FBI
Director:
Sam Pollard
World Premiere:
Toronto 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, New York, Chicago, IDFA
About:
An exposé of the FBI’s adversarial relationship to the Civil Rights leader.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
Sam Pollard’s latest film performs the vital task of examining FBI director J Edgar Hoover’s relentless campaign of surveillance and harassment against Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, when King is celebrated across political spectrums as a moral hero, it’s jolting to confront the years when federal agents targeted him as a villain. Inspired by the work of historian David Garrow, the film uses recently declassified files to study the FBI’s motives and methods.
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