Martin Luther King Jr. Movies

Walter Williams critiques the war on poverty, schooling, and more in this public television documentary based on Walter Williams' book 'The State...

Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.

Northern Ireland has had many historic days in the last 40 years. October 5th, 1968 could be the most important. In this documentary, many of those...

Personal comments from family, friends, and advisors fill this remarkable documentary honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coretta Scott King joins...

Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out...

The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...

The March, also known as The March to Washington, is a 1964 documentary film by James Blue about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. It was...

On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Sir Trevor McDonald travels to the Deep South of America to get closer to the man who meant so much...

A deep delve into King’s search for the truth on what really happened on that terrible Memphis day in the penultimate years of the tumultuous...

Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity,...

The struggle for civil rights has been one of the most important issues of American life for the last fifty years. In August of 1963, groups from all...

An American Ascent documents the first African American expedition to tackle Denali, North America's highest peak and explores the complex...

1963 - the year when the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Sweden suffers from an smallpox epidemic - hundreds...

A journey into the heart of America's past and future. The story revolving around the mysterious woman, overlooked by historians, who had a profound...

He counseled presidents and popes, served on corporate boards and infuriated Richard Nixon. He was one of the only friends to whom Ann Landers...

A black Lamborghini spins in circles, cheered on by men in white T-shirts and medallion necklaces. Larry W. Cook has reused a clip from the 2000...

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created...

A documentary of the 1964 International Chemical Workers Union against Scripto.