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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's stirring speeches, it is a fitting tribute to his legacy, and features clips narrated by a wide range of celebrities, including Harry Belafonte, Paul Newman Charlton Heston, Ruby Dee, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Walter Matthau, Ben Gazzara, Clarence Williams III, Joanne Woodward, and James Earl Jones.
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CinemaSerf
Jun 27, 2025 · via TMDB
I’m not sure this is an actual documentary. It has no editorial or narrative structure per se, what it presents us with is as comprehensive a chronology of Dr. Martin Luther King as it is possible to get. From his humble beginnings in an Alabama ridden with bigotry and strife, through to his assassination in 1968, this uses a phenomenal amount of archive research to illustrate the power of his oratory. His speeches are powerful and emotional, but they never come across as angry or provocative of violence. His strength of character and purpose in the face of a long-established racial belligerence is really quite well captured as the film includes the large scale “I Have a Dream” set-pieces to far more intimate and poignant comments to smaller groups, churches or even just to his aides and friends as he travels the length and breadth of the country extolling the virtues of freedom for all. That all isn’t just for folks of colour, but those being persecuted for their religious beliefs too, or being disadvantaged because of their sex or social status. It’s hard to imagine who might actually watch all of this now, it is a long haul, but it goes quite some way to testifying just how effective oratory can be when delivered confidently and proudly to an audience eager to engage. There is enough annotation to help advise on the locations and timelines, and there are a few - slightly unnecessary, I felt - staged readings from the likes of Charlton Heston and James Earl Jones to help, as does the latter archive footage, demonstrate that his optimism wasn’t just inspiring those African Americans, but plenty from the descendants of it’s European immigrant population too. It doesn’t attempt to analyse the man, his motives or his personal life but I don’t think that was anyone’s plan. It’s a vehicle for his passion, and it works powerfully.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Coretta Scott King
Self (archive footage)
Yolanda King
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King III
Self (archive footage)
Ralph Abernathy
Self (archive footage)
Joan Baez
Self (archive footage)
James Baldwin
Self (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte
Self (archive footage)
Tony Bennett
Self (archive footage)
Leonard Bernstein
Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage)
H. Rap Brown
Self (archive footage)
Kwame Ture
Self (archive footage)
Diahann Carroll
Self (archive footage)
Wilt Chamberlain
Self (archive footage)
Xernona Clayton
Self (archive footage)
Bill Cosby
Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Ruby Dee
Self (archive footage)
James Garner
Self (archive footage)
Ben Gazzara
Self (archive footage)
Dick Gregory
Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston
Self (archive footage)
Hubert H. Humphrey
Self (archive footage)
Jesse Jackson
Self (archive footage)
Mahalia Jackson
Self (archive footage)
James Earl Jones
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Burt Lancaster
Self (archive footage)
John Lewis
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Elaine May
Self (archive footage)
Mike Nichols
Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Perkins
Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier
Self (archive footage)
Nipsey Russell
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Anthony Quinn
Self (archive footage)
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
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Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
Paul Stookey
Self (archive footage)
Mary Travers
Self (archive footage)
Leslie Uggams
Self (archive footage)
Clarence Williams III
Self (archive footage)
Paul Winfield
Self (archive footage)
Joanne Woodward
Self (archive footage)
Peter Yarrow
Self (archive footage)
Andrew Young
Self (archive footage)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director
Sidney Lumet
Director
Jack Sholder
Assistant Editor
John Carter
Editor
John Carter
Supervising Editor
Richard Kaplan
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