I Am Not Your Negro

Name: I Am Not Your Negro
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 4.7
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King

Raoul Peck20161h 33mDocumentary

Why we chose it

Raoul Peck spent ten years turning thirty pages by James Baldwin into a film about three murdered men, Evers, Malcolm X and King. Every word Samuel L. Jackson reads belongs to the writer, and the problem is that not one of them has gone out of date.

Synopsis

James Baldwin once wrote to his agent about a book he planned on three men he had known and outlived, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, all of whom were murdered. The film is built from his notes and letters, together with newsreels, Hollywood clips and old photographs. When Baldwin died, the book still stood at thirty pages.