MLK/FBI Documentary Questions from 2020 | MLK FBI Movie Guide in ENGLISH

29 Questions in chronological order for Oscar Academy Award Nominated documentary MLK/FBI from 2020. The Movie Guide includes pre-listening questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the film. Includes images to help scaffold for diverse learners. Questions are spaced out to give students enough time to write answers down. Perfect way to hold your students accountable for watching the film, test their interpretive listening skills and engage them in class discussion around important topics related to the Civil Rights Leader.

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Synopsis:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, award-winning editor and director Sam Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. In crafting a rich archival tapestry, featuring some revelatory restored footage of King, Pollard urges us to remember that true American progress is always hard-won.

Critics Reviews

-MLK/FBI presents a sobering overview of the American intelligence community's efforts to discredit and destroy a leader of the civil rights movement.

-It gives the public a full opportunity to understand who King was as a person, a man, a human being...we see his failings, but we also see how great and powerful his movement was...

About the film:

• Genre: Documentary
• Original Language:
  English Director:
  Samuel D. Pollard
• Producer: Benjamin Hedin
• Writer: Benjamin Hedin, Laura Tomaselli
• Release Date (Theaters): Jan 15, 2021  Limited
• Release Date (Streaming): Jan 15, 2021
• Box Office (Gross USA): $44.9K
• Runtime: 1h 42m
• Production Co: Field of Vision