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Martin Luther King Jr. Acting Filmography (130)

Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream
2026·Self (archive footage)
Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.
2025·Self (archive footage)
Zeitgeist: Requiem
2024·Self (archive footage)
Becoming King
2024·Self (archive footage)
America's Woman
2024·Self
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024·Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
2024·Self (archive footage)
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024·Self (archive footage)
The Universe
2023·Self (archive footage)
Stand
2023·Self (archive footage)
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Four Died Trying: Prologue
2023·Self (archive footage)
Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America
2023
Origin
2023·Self (archive voice)
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
2022·Self (archive footage)
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
2022·Self (archive footage)
The Janes
2022·Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
2022
A History of the World According to Getty Images
2022·Self (Archive Footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022·Self (archive footage)
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
2022·Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021·Self - Activist (archive footage)
The Art of Dissent
2021·Self - Subject (archive footage)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021·Self (archive footage)
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021·Self
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020·Self (archive footage)
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020·Self (archive Footage)
Killing John F. Kennedy
2020·Self (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020·Self
Da 5 Bloods
2020·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Soul of America
2020·Self (archive footage)
MLK/FBI
2020·Self (archive footage)
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019·Self
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019·Self (archive footage)
Geek, and You Shall Find
2019·Self (voice)
Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl
2019·Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
England 79
2019
Hesburgh
2019·Self (archive footage)
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2019·Self (archive footage)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019·Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019·Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
2018·Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
2018·Self (archive footage)
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
2018·Self (archive footage)
I Am MLK Jr.
2018·Self
King in the Wilderness
2018·Self (archive footage)
The Corporate Coup D'État
2018·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
2018·Self (archive footage)
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017·Self (archive footage)
Chasing Trane
2017·Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
2017·Self (archive footage)
O.J.: Made in America
2016·Self (archive footage)
Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
2016·Self (archive footage)
13th
2016·Self (archive footage)
Året var 1966
2016·Self (archive footage)
We Have A Dream
2016·Self (archive footage)
Imminent Threat
2015·Self (archive footage)
Klansville U.S.A.
2015·Self (archive Footage)
Children of the Civil Rights
2015·Self (archive footage)
Freedom Summer
2014·Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013·Self
Speeches That Shook the World
2013·Self (archive footage)
Året var 1963
2013·Self (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013·Self (archive footage)
Picture Me Rollin'
2012·Self (voice)
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012·Self (archive footage)
The House I Live In
2012·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ethel
2012·Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar
2011·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Invasion
2011·archive footage
COINTELPRO 101
2010·Self (archive footage)
2012: Time for Change
2010·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Roads to Memphis
2010·Self (archive footage)
When You're Strange
2010·Self (archive footage)
Capitalism: A Love Story
2009·Self (archive footage)
Stand
2009·Self (archive footage)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
2009·Self (archive footage)
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008·Self (archive footage)
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
2008·self - archival footage
The Day the Troubles Began
2008·Self
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
2008·Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007·Self (archive footage)
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
2007·Self (archive footage)
L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK?
2007·Self (archive footage)
...So Goes the Nation
2006·Self (archive footage)
Bobby
2006·Self (archive footage)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005·Self (archive footage)
Citizen King
2004·Self (archive footage)
The Corporation
2003·Self (archive footage)
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2002·Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
2002·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Year That Trembled
2002·Self (archive footage)
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The American Nightmare
2000·Self
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
1999·Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
1997·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blue Eyed
1996·Self (archive footage)
All Power to the People!
1996·Self (archive footage)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective
1994·Self (archive footage)
Death Scenes 2
1992·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Real Malcolm X
1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
The Doors
1991·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
In Remembrance of Martin
1986·Self
Disasters of the Century
1985·Self (archive footage)
Good Intentions
1985·Self (Archival Footage)
The Killing of America
1981·Self (archive footage)
The War at Home
1979·Self (archive footage)
James Brown Soul Brother No. 1
1978
Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective)
1973·Self (archive footage)
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973·Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Владыки без масок. Гарольд Хант - апостол «ультра»
1970·Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970·Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis
1969·Self
LBJ
1968·Self
Martin Luther King at Newcastle University
1967·Self
I Am Curious (Yellow)
1967·Himself
After Civil Rights... Black Power
1967·Self
13 November 1967: Martin Luther King Interview
1967
Anno Domini MCMLXV
1966·Self (archive footage)
The Bus
1965
The March
1964·Self
Wealth of a Nation
1964·Self
Union and Freedom
1964·Himself
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
1963·himself
I Have a Dream
1963·Self
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
Integration Report 1
1960·Self