I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

02/03/2017 (BE) • 1h 33m

Documentary

Overview

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

Top Billed Cast

Samuel L. Jackson

Narrator (voice)

James Baldwin

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Medgar Evers

Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Harry Belafonte

Self (archive footage)

Paul Weiss

Self (archive footage)

Dick Cavett

Self (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$1,000,000.00

Revenue

$7,123,919.00

Keywords

race politics

interview

martin luther king

racism

1950s

1960s

malcom x

medgar evers

james baldwin

historical documentary

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