MLK / FBI
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 11, 2022
- Originally Released: 2020
- Label: Ifc
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Sam Pollard | |
| Director of Photography: | Robert Chappell | |
| Hosted by | Martin Luther King |
Entertainment Reviews:
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [A] superb, infuriating documentary....Pollard and editor Laura Tomaselli stitch together an incriminating mix of real-life footage and scenes from movies that served as law enforcement propaganda.
RogerEbert.com
4 stars out of 5 -- This is a two-pronged investigation into a conspicuously fraught and, for the FBI, embarrassing moment in the American political establishment’s too-recent past.
Rolling Stone
Sam Pollard’s searing documentary MLK/FBI retells the story of the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of the government, showing how FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover and former Director of Domestic Intelligence William C. Sullivan targeted and harassed the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., until his assassination in 1968.
Hollywood Reporter
4 stars out of 4 -- In the exquisitely constructed, deeply unnerving MLK/FBI, filmmaker Sam Pollard takes viewers behind the looking glass into the shadowy world of governmental surveillance during the mid-century civil rights movement...
Washington Post
4 stars out of 5 -- Unsurprisingly, there’s plenty to be enraged about when it comes to how much King had to endure...
Empire
The result is at once suspenseful, visually engrossing and intellectually bracing. It also raises urgent, sometimes uncomfortable questions about power, privacy and the ethical challenges of examining the past.
New York Times
4 stars out of 5 -- Sam Pollard’s archive documentary cleverly uses the FBI’s pursuit of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr to tell the entwined history of leftwing protest and state-sanctioned surveillance.
The Guardian
[A] tensely absorbing documentary about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under J. Edgar Hoover, came to see itself as part of an establishment war against King...
Variety
Product Description:
A documentary by Sam Pollard 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, the time when the assassinated reverend was beginning to rise to national fame and influence as a leader of the civil rights movement. The film's revelations include how the FBI wiretapped and presented to King many recordings of his supposed numerous extramarital affairs as J. Edgar Hoover branded him a communist.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 63,450
- UPC: 014381142600
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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