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    MLK/FBI

    Poster of the movie MLK/FBI
    2020     Documentary    
    USA
    1h 44min

    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."

    Directed bySam Pollard
    Written byBenjamin Hedin, Laura Tomaselli
    CompanyIFC FilmsIFC FilmsIFC Films

    Featuring

    Martin Luther King

    Video

    2:28

    Trailer

    3 years ago

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