MLK/FBI

An eye-opening documentary that poses hard questions and gives no easy answers, MLK/FBI is a worthy addition to the ever-timely media concerning Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't know that MLK/FBI reveals anything new about its subject, but it clarifies & amplifies facets of his story in a timely way. It couldn't be more relevant, as a document of history or as a cautionary tale about balancing a public & private existence

What are we going to do with the material itself? It's a question whose answers remain to be seen. The accomplishment of Pollard's documentary is that it so capably and persuasively prepares us to ask it.

Cleverly uses the FBI's pursuit of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr to tell the entwined history of leftwing protest and state-sanctioned surveillance.

I think it really shows the importance of King as a person, as a human, as opposed to the icon that we have come to think of him as.

This documentary is a really necessary rewind... to remind everybody how Martin Luther King Jr. was seen in his day, at his time.

King's tortured relationship with the FBI is the subject of the new documentary MLK/FBI. Directed by Sam Pollard, it offers a comprehensive overview of how the FBI targeted King during his years of activism.

Feels unfinished and leaves you wanting more

The film doesn't so much champion King as it does examine the challenges he had to overcome to ignite a movement.

Using rich black-and-white archival footage and calling upon the detailed insights of historians and experts in social justice, among others, [Director] Pollard and his team take the controversial story and make it fresh and fascinating.