MLK/FBI

The film "MLK/FBI" (2020) explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through newly declassified files. Interviews with experts like Beverly Gage, David J. Garrow, Andrew Young, and others provide insight into the investigation and its impact on King's life and work. The documentary uses archival footage of MLK from 1955 to 1968 to tell his story, highlighting the attempts by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to discredit him through private recordings and images of his personal life.