Martin Luther King Jr.

Biography

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

American Experience

World in Action

Mentiras verdaderas

Omnibus

Basketball: A Love Story

Kulturzeit

Explained

All Movies (133)

• Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream2026 · as Self (archive footage)
• Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.2025 · as Self (archive footage)
• Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• America's Woman2024 · as Self
• The Beach Boys2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Zeitgeist: Requiem2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Becoming King2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Origin2023 · as Self (archive voice)
• Four Died Trying: Prologue2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight2023
• Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America2023
• Stand2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Universe2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Say Hey, Willie Mays!2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream2022
• The Janes2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• A History of the World According to Getty Images2022 · as Self (Archive Footage)
• Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Art of Dissent2021 · as Self - Subject (archive footage)
• Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)2021 · as Self - Activist (archive footage)
• Killing Martin Luther King Jr.2021 · as Self
• The Soul of America2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• MLK/FBI2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade2020 · as Self
• John Lewis: Good Trouble2020 · as Self (archive Footage)
• John Lewis: Good Trouble2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Da 5 Bloods2020 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Killing John F. Kennedy2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• England 792019
• Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Mike Wallace Is Here2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Geek, and You Shall Find2019 · as Self (voice)
• Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation2019 · as Self
• Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl2019 · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
• Hesburgh2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Green Book: Guide to Freedom2019 · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
• Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Corporate Coup D'État2018 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Robert Penn Warren: A Vision2018
• 1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• I Am MLK Jr.2018 · as Self
• Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• King in the Wilderness2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• August 28: A Day in the Life of a People2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Burn Motherfucker, Burn!2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Chasing Trane2017 · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
• 13th2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• O.J.: Made in America2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Året var 19662016 · as Self (archive footage)
• We Have A Dream2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Imminent Threat2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Children of the Civil Rights2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Klansville U.S.A.2015 · as Self (archive Footage)
• Freedom Summer2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Speeches That Shook the World2013 · as Self (archive footage)
• Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia2013 · as Self (archive footage)
• Året var 19632013 · as Self (archive footage)
• Martin Luther King and the March on Washington2013 · as Self
• The House I Live In2012 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• MLK: The Assassination Tapes2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Ethel2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Picture Me Rollin'2012 · as Self (voice)
• J. Edgar2011 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Hollywood Invasion2011 · as archive footage
• 2012: Time for Change2010 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• COINTELPRO 1012010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Roads to Memphis2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• When You're Strange2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Capitalism: A Love Story2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Stand2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Day the Troubles Began2008 · as Self
• The Witness from the Balcony of Room 3062008 · as Self
• James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene2008 · as self - archival footage
• L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK?2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• King: Man of Peace in a Time of War2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• ...So Goes the Nation2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Bobby2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• No Direction Home: Bob Dylan2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• Citizen King2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Corporation2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Naqoyqatsi2002 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film2002 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Year That Trembled2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• A Huey P. Newton Story2001 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The American Nightmare2000 · as Self
• Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• Martin Luther King: Days of Hope1997 · as Self
• 4 Little Girls1997 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Blue Eyed1996 · as Self (archive footage)
• All Power to the People!1996 · as Self (archive footage)
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective1994 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Real Malcolm X1992
• Death Scenes 21992 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century1992
• The Doors1991 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• In Remembrance of Martin1986 · as Self
• Disasters of the Century1985 · as Self (archive footage)
• Good Intentions1985 · as Self (Archival Footage)
• The Killing of America1981 · as Self (archive footage)
• The War at Home1979 · as Self (archive footage)
• James Brown Soul Brother No. 11978
• Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 21973 · as Self/Cameo (archive footage)
• Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective)1973 · as Self (archive footage)
• Владыки без масок. Гарольд Хант - апостол «ультра»1970 · as Self (archive footage)
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis1970 · as Self (archive footage)
• Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis1969 · as Self
• LBJ1968 · as Self
• Martin Luther King at Newcastle University1967 · as Self
• 13 November 1967: Martin Luther King Interview1967
• After Civil Rights... Black Power1967 · as Self
• I Am Curious (Yellow)1967 · as Himself
• Anno Domini MCMLXV1966 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Bus1965
• The March1964 · as Self
• Wealth of a Nation1964 · as Self
• Union and Freedom1964 · as Himself
• I Have a Dream1963 · as Self
• David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr1963 · as himself
• The Negro and the American Promise1963
• Integration Report 11960 · as Self
• King vs. the United States of America— · as Self (archive footage)

All TV Shows (35)

• Hollywood Black2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• La Californie !2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Bill Russell: Legend2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Century of Icons2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• A History of Antisemitism2022 · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
• This Is Pop2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Ku Klux Klan: An American Story2020 · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
• First Ladies2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Helter Skelter: An American Myth2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• History 1012020 · as Self (archive footage)
• What's My Name | Muhammad Ali2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Basketball: A Love Story2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Explained2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Bobby Kennedy for President2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Elvis Presley: The Searcher2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Monochrome: Black, White & Blue2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• O.J.: Made in America2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Great Literary Tour2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Race for the White House2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• In Their Own Words2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Emancipation Road2014 · as Self
• Infamous Assassinations2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• I Am2012 · as Self
• Mentiras verdaderas2011 · as Self (archive footage)
• Folk Britannia2006 · as Self (archival footage)
• Days That Shook the World2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Assassinations That Changed the World1996
• Kulturzeit1995 · as Self (archive footage)
• American Experience1988 · as Himself (archive footage)
• Dispatches1987
• Omnibus1967 · as Self
• World in Action1963
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The David Susskind Show1959 · as Self