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MLK/FBI
NY Times Critic’s Pick
99% on Rotten Tomatoes
“An exemplary historical documentary.” The NY Times
“[W]hat “MLK/FBI” drives home: The more we see King as a human and not an icon, the greater his accomplishments become.” – Chicago Sun Times
“MLK/FBI is a perceptive reminder that this uphill struggle is ongoing and nothing new.” – A.V. Club
MLK/FBI performs the vital task of examining 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 US 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. In the 1950s and ’60s, when Black people started mobilizing to fight racial discrimination, Hoover saw the movement as a communist plot. Rather than support equality, the FBI sought to undermine King through wiretapping and blackmail, in what former FBI director James Comey calls “the darkest part of the bureau’s history.”
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