Martin Luther King Jr.
Biography
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
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Movies (40)
Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
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2024
America's Woman
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2024
The Beach Boys
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Zeitgeist: Requiem
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Becoming King
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2024
Origin
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2023
Four Died Trying: Prologue
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2023
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America
2023
Stand
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Universe
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
2022
The Janes
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2022
A History of the World According to Getty Images
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2022
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
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2022
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Art of Dissent
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self - Activist (archive footage)
2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
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2021
The Soul of America
as Self (archive footage)
2020
MLK/FBI
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2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
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2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self (archive Footage)
2020
Uncle Tom
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2020
Da 5 Bloods
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2020
Killing John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
2020
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
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2020
England 79
2019
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
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2019
Mike Wallace Is Here
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2019
Geek, and You Shall Find
as Self (voice)
2019
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
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2019
Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2019
Hesburgh
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2019
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
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2019
TV Shows (10)
La Californie !
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2023
Bill Russell: Legend
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2023
The Century of Icons
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2022
A History of Antisemitism
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2022
This Is Pop
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2021
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2020
First Ladies
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2020
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
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2020
History 101
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2020
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
as Self (archive footage)
2019