Actor
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Died April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president.
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With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
Known for
Nixon1995
Dispatches1987
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream2022
World in Action1963
The Bus1965
James Brown Soul Brother No. 11978
The Real Malcolm X1992
Andy Warhol's America2022
Filmography
- TBAKing vs. the United States of AmericaFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2026Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the DreamFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2026America Who Are You?SeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2025Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.FilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis PresleyFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2024The Beach BoysFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2024FayeFilmSelf - Civil Rights Leader (archive footage) (as Martin Luther King)
- 2024The Choice 2024: Harris vs. TrumpFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Hollywood BlackSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Becoming KingFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Zeitgeist: RequiemFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2024America's WomanFilmSelf
- 2023OriginFilmSelf (archive voice)
- 2023StandFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2023La Californie !SeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2023The UniverseFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2023Betye Saar: Drifting Toward TwilightFilm
- 2023Four Died Trying: PrologueFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2023Jim Crow: The History of Africans in AmericaFilm
- 2022The JanesFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & BluesFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2022Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in AmericaFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2022Say Hey, Willie Mays!FilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2022A History of AntisemitismSeriesSelf - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
- 2022The Century of IconsSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2022Martin Luther King: More Than One DreamFilm
- 2022A History of the World According to Getty ImagesFilmSelf (Archive Footage)
- 2022Andy Warhol's AmericaSeries
- 2022Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60'sFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)FilmSelf - Activist (archive footage)
- 2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2021This Is PopSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2021The Art of DissentFilmSelf - Subject (archive footage)
- 2021Killing Martin Luther King Jr.FilmSelf
- 2020Da 5 BloodsFilmSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020History 101SeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2020MLK/FBIFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2020Ku Klux Klan: An American StorySeriesSelf - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
- 2020John Lewis: Good TroubleFilmSelf (archive Footage), Self (archive footage)
- 2020Helter Skelter: An American MythSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2020The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight ShowFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2020The Soul of AmericaFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2020First LadiesSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2020Killing John F. KennedyFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2020De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da LiberdadeFilmSelf
- 2019The Green Book: Guide to FreedomFilmSelf - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
- 2019Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a GenerationFilmSelf
- 2019What's My Name | Muhammad AliSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2019Manson: Music from an Unsound MindFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2019Mike Wallace Is HereFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2019Rigged: The Voter Suppression PlaybookFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2019Geek, and You Shall FindFilmSelf (voice)
- 2019HesburghFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2019Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der WahlFilmSelf - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
- 2019England 79Film
- 2018ExplainedSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Elvis Presley: The SearcherSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2018King in the WildernessFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Josephine Baker: The Story of an AwakeningFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2018The Corporate Coup D'ÉtatFilmSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2018I Am MLK Jr.FilmSelf
- 20181968: A Year of War, Turmoil and BeyondFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Basketball: A Love StorySeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked ManFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Martin Luther King by Trevor McdonaldFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Robert Penn Warren: A VisionFilm
- 2017I Am Not Your NegroFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2017Chasing TraneFilmSelf - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
- 2017Burn Motherfucker, Burn!FilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2017DoloresFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2017August 28: A Day in the Life of a PeopleFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2017Monochrome: Black, White & BlueSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 201613thFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2016O.J.: Made in AmericaFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2016O.J.: Made in AmericaSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2016Race for the White HouseSeriesSelf (archive footage)
- 2016Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its OuttakesFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2016Året var 1966FilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2016We Have A DreamFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2016Great Literary TourSeriesSelf (archive footage)