Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968
Known for I Am Not Your Negro, J. Edgar, Capitalism: A Love Story.
Biography
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. 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.
Movie Credits
Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream (2026)
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream (2022)
MLK/FBI (2020)
I Am MLK Jr. (2018)
King in the Wilderness (2018)
MLK: The Assassination Tapes (2012)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969)
Integration Report 1 (1960)
Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man (2018)
LBJ (1968)
Becoming King (2024)
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2021)
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
The Janes (2022)
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (2020)
The Night James Brown Saved Boston (2008)
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (2007)
Naqoyqatsi (2002)
The War at Home (1979)
Geek, and You Shall Find (2019)
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook (2019)
The House I Live In (2012)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
Hesburgh (2019)
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond (2018)
Klansville U.S.A. (2015)
When You're Strange (2009)
Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc. (2025)
Burn Motherfucker, Burn! (2017)
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (2024)
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
The Soul of America (2020)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
All Power to The People! (1996)
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind (2019)
Imminent Threat (2015)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)
Ethel (2012)
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene (2008)
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games (1999)
Say Hey, Willie Mays! (2022)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019)
The Beach Boys (2024)
13th (2016)
The Corporation (2003)
Uncle Tom (2020)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019)
O.J.: Made in America (2016)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)
The Year That Trembled (2002)
The Killing of America (1981)
Bobby (2006)
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
The American Nightmare (2000)
Stand (2023)
2012: Time for Change (2010)
The Doors (1991)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)
4 Little Girls (1997)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
J. Edgar (2011)
