MLK/FBI
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PROGRAM DETAILS
Film Available to Stream
Thu, Dec 3 at 12:01 am – Sun, Dec 6 at 11:59 pm PST
Live Q&A
Sun, Dec 6 at 8:00 pm PST
Q&A
Director Sam Pollard is expected for the live Q&A on Sunday, December 6 at 8:00 pm PST.
Description
In this critical time of racial strife in America, Sam Pollard’s revelatory MLK/FBI exposes J. Edgar Hoover’s dogged and heinous attempts to discredit and humiliate Martin Luther King Jr. through rampant surveillance and wiretapping. Utilizing archival footage, old film and television clips, and numerous interviews with historians, Pollard, Spike Lee’s longtime editor, expertly crafts a compelling and unsettling portrait of Hoover’s relentless quest to destroy one of this nation’s heroes.
“MLK/FBI serves as a chilling reminder that white supremacy is not solely a partisan problem; it’s a cruelty baked into the fabric of our political system, poisoning it at every level. Change comes when we allow ourselves to challenge the stories we have been told about our history.” —Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter
Sam Pollard is an accomplished feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director whose work spans almost 30 years. He has served as producer and supervising editor on the Spike Lee-directed HBO documentary If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise (2001), and When the Levees Broke (2006). He has directed numerous acclaimed documentaries including, Mr. Soul! (2018), Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (2017), and episodes of HBO’s Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (2020).
Film Details
Language English
Year 2020
Runtime 106
Country USA
Director Sam Pollard
Producer Benjamin Hedin
Editor Laura Tomaselli
Cinematographer Robert Chappell
Music Gerald Clayton
Print Source IFC Films