MLK/FBI

About MLK/FBI

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLK/FBI is a 2020 documentary film directed by Sam Pollard. It runs 104 minutes and was released in September 2020.

The film is filed under surveillance, martin luther king, 1960s, and FBI.

Martin Luther King Jr. appears as Self (archive footage), J. Edgar Hoover as Self (archive footage), Beverly Gage as Self, and David Garrow as Self. The screenplay is by Benjamin Hedin and Laura Tomaselli. Produced by Field of Vision. In the United States it streams on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, and AMC Plus Apple TV channel.

Seberg, The Equalizer, and Sicario make useful companions to MLK/FBI.