
About
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
Cast

Raoul Peck

Samuel L. Jackson
Narration (voice)

James Baldwin
Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King
Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)

Medgar Evers
Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)

Harry Belafonte
Self (archive footage)

Paul Weiss
Self (archive footage)
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#25 on The 50 Most Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2017 They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
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#426 on The 21st Century Most Acclaimed Films They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
#41 on The 50 Best Movies of the 2010s Rolling Stone