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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.Ā (January 15, 1929 ā April 4, 1968) was an AmericanĀ BaptistĀ minister and activist who was a leader in theĀ African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement ofĀ civil rightsĀ usingĀ nonviolentĀ civil disobedienceĀ based on hisĀ ChristianĀ beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955Ā Montgomery bus boycottĀ and helped found theĀ Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceĀ (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation inĀ Albany, GeorgiaĀ (theĀ Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests inĀ Birmingham, Alabama. Kinā¦
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Martin Luther King Jr.Ā (January 15, 1929 ā April 4, 1968) was an AmericanĀ BaptistĀ minister and activist who was a leader in theĀ African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement ofĀ civil rightsĀ usingĀ nonviolentĀ civil disobedienceĀ based on hisĀ ChristianĀ beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955Ā Montgomery bus boycottĀ and helped found theĀ Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceĀ (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation inĀ Albany, GeorgiaĀ (theĀ Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests inĀ Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963Ā March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatestĀ oratorsĀ in American history.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s Filmography
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream
as Self (archive footage)
Breakdown: 1975
as Self (archive photo)
Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.
as Self (archive footage)
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
as Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
as Self (archive footage)
America's Woman
as Self
The Beach Boys
as Self (archive footage)
Faye
as Self - Civil Rights Leader (archive footage) (as Martin Luther King)
Zeitgeist: Requiem
as Self (archive footage)
Becoming King
as Self (archive footage)
Origin
as Self (archive voice)
Four Died Trying: Prologue
as Self (archive footage)
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America
Stand
as Self (archive footage)
The Universe
as Self (archive footage)
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
The Janes
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
A History of the World According to Getty Images
as Self (Archive Footage)
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
as Self (archive footage)
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
as Self (archive footage)
The Art of Dissent
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self - Activist (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self
The Soul of America
as Self (archive footage)
MLK/FBI
as Self (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self (archive Footage)
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self (archive footage)
Da 5 Bloods
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Killing John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
as Self (archive footage)
England 79
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
as Self (archive footage)
Geek, and You Shall Find
as Self (voice)
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
as Self
Demokratie unter Druck ā Europa vor der Wahl
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Hesburgh
as Self (archive footage)
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
as Self (archive footage)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
as Self (archive footage)
The Corporate Coup D'Ćtat
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
as Self (archive footage)
I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
No Poster
Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
as Self (archive footage)
King in the Wilderness
as Self (archive footage)
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
as Self (archive footage)
Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
as Self (archive footage)
Chasing Trane
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
I Am Not Your Negro
as Self (archive footage)
Dolores
as Self (archive footage)
13th
as Self (archive footage)
O.J.: Made in America
as Self (archive footage)
Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
as Self (archive footage)
Ć ret var 1966
as Self (archive footage)
We Have A Dream
as Self (archive footage)
Imminent Threat
as Self (archive footage)
Listen to Me Marlon
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
Children of the Civil Rights
as Self (archive footage)
Klansville U.S.A.
as Self (archive Footage)
Freedom Summer
as Self (archive footage)
An American Ascent
as Self (archive footage)
Speeches That Shook the World
as Self (archive footage)
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
as Self (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
Ć ret var 1963
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
The House I Live In
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
as Self (archive footage)
Ethel
as Self (archive footage)
Picture Me Rollin'
as Self (voice)
J. Edgar
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012: Time for Change
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
COINTELPRO 101
as Self (archive footage)
Roads to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
When You're Strange
as Self (archive footage)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
as Self (archive footage)
Capitalism: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Stand
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
The Day the Troubles Began
as Self
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
as Self
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
as Self (archive footage)
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
as self - archival footage
L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK?
as Self (archive footage)
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
as Self (archive footage)
...So Goes the Nation
as Self (archive footage)
Bobby
as Self (archive footage)
Never Lose Sight of Freedom
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Citizen King
as Self (archive footage)
Mighty Times: The Children's March
as Self (archive footage)
The Corporation
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
as Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Year That Trembled
as Self (archive footage)
A Huey P. Newton Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The American Nightmare
as Self
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
as Self
4 Little Girls
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blue Eyed
as Self (archive footage)
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
Nixon
as (Archive footage)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective
as Self (archive footage)
The Real Malcolm X
No Poster
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
Death Scenes 2
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Doors
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
In Remembrance of Martin
as Self
Disasters of the Century
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Good Intentions
as Self (Archival Footage)
The Killing of America
as Self (archive footage)
The War at Home
as Self (archive footage)
James Brown Soul Brother No. 1
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
No Poster
Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective)
as Self (archive footage)
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as Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis
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LBJ
as Self
No Poster
13 November 1967: Martin Luther King Interview
Martin Luther King at Newcastle University
as Self
After Civil Rights... BlackĀ Power
as Self
I Am Curious (Yellow)
as Himself
Anno Domini MCMLXV
as Self (archive footage)
The Bus
The March
as Self
Wealth of a Nation
as Self
No Poster
Union and Freedom
as Himself
No Poster
I Have a Dream
as Self
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
as himself
The Negro and the American Promise
Integration Report 1
as Self
No Poster
King vs. the United States of America
as Self (archive footage)