Martin Luther King Jr.
Known for: Acting
Born: January 15, 1929
Died: April 4, 1968
Place of birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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.
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Filmography
138 movies · 37 TV shows, newest first
4.0
America Who Are You? A History of the American Mindset
2026
4.0
Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream
2026
6.8
Breakdown: 1975
2025
6.0
Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.
2025
7.5
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024
7.4
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024
NR
America's Woman
2024
3.0
Hollywood Black
2024
6.6
The Beach Boys
2024
NR
Zeitgeist: Requiem
2024
1.0
Becoming King
2024
6.2
Origin
2023
NR
Four Died Trying: Prologue
2023
NR
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
8.0
La Californie !
2023
NR
Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America
2023
7.2
Bill Russell: Legend
2023
3.2
Stand
2023
7.0
The Universe
2023
7.0
The Century of Icons
2022
6.0
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
2022
6.7
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
8.5
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
2022
5.5
The Janes
20226.5
A History of the World According to Getty Images
2022
6.8
A History of Antisemitism
2022
NR
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
2022
8.0
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
2022
NR
Andy Warhol's America
2022
NR
The Art of Dissent
2021
7.6
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
7.6
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
5.9
This Is Pop
2021
NR
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
6.3
The Soul of America
2020
6.6
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
2020
5.3
First Ladies
2020
6.9
MLK/FBI
2020
NR
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
6.7
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
2020
4.4
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
6.4
Da 5 Bloods
2020
6.0
Killing John F. Kennedy
2020
7.1
History 101
2020
5.9
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020
NR
England 79
2019
6.8
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019
6.5
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
5.7
Geek, and You Shall Find
2019
7.3
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019
7.4
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
2019
5.0
Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl
2019
7.3
Hesburgh
2019
8.5
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2019
7.8
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
7.9
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
2018
7.4
The Corporate Coup D'État
2018
NR
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
7.3
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
8.0
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
2018
7.5
Explained
2018
7.8
Bobby Kennedy for President
2018
7.5
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
20188.0
Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
2018
8.8
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
NR
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
2018
7.0
King in the Wilderness
2018
1.0
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017
6.5
Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
2017
7.3
Chasing Trane
2017
7.7
I Am Not Your Negro
2017
NR
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017
7.8
13th
2016
8.1
O.J.: Made in America
2016
NR
Great Literary Tour
2016
8.4
O.J.: Made in America
2016
8.0
Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
2016
7.9
Race for the White House
2016
NR
Året var 1966
2016
10.0
We Have A Dream
2016
10.0
Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa
2015
6.7
Imminent Threat
2015
NR
In Their Own Words
20157.0
Children of the Civil Rights
2015
6.8
Klansville U.S.A.
2015
NR
Emancipation Road
2014
7.2
Freedom Summer
2014
10.0
An American Ascent
2014
NR
Speeches That Shook the World
2013
10.0
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
2013
7.7
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
5.0
Året var 1963
2013
10.0
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
7.6
The House I Live In
2012
8.2
Infamous Assassinations
2012NR
I Am
2012
7.4
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
6.9
Ethel
2012
NR
Picture Me Rollin'
2012
6.2
J. Edgar
2011
5.5
Mentiras verdaderas
2011
6.0
Hollywood Invasion
2011
6.3
2012: Time for Change
2010
NR
COINTELPRO 101
2010
8.0
Roads to Memphis
2010
7.3
When You're Strange
2010
7.3
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
2009
7.1
Capitalism: A Love Story
2009NR
Stand
2009NR
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
5.5
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
2008
6.7
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008
8.4
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
2008
6.3
L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK?
2007
7.0
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
2007
8.5
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
6.9
...So Goes the Nation
2006
6.4
Bobby
2006
NR
Never Lose Sight of Freedom
2006NR
Folk Britannia
2006
7.8
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
20058.0
Citizen King
2004
7.0
Days That Shook the World
2003
7.6
The Corporation
20038.3
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2002
6.2
Naqoyqatsi
20028.0
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
3.7
The Year That Trembled
2002
5.4
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
6.8
The American Nightmare
2000
7.8
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
1999
NR
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
1997
7.1
4 Little Girls
1997
6.9
Blue Eyed
1996
6.3
All Power to the People!
19968.5
Assassinations That Changed the World
1996
6.8
Nixon
1995
7.7
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective
1994
8.0
The Real Malcolm X
1992
5.0
Death Scenes 2
199210.0
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
7.1
The Doors
1991
6.5
American Experience
1988
6.5
Dispatches
1987
8.0
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
8.5
Disasters of the Century
1985NR
Good Intentions
1985NR
First Tuesday
1983
7.2
The Killing of America
1981
7.4
The War at Home
1979
8.0
James Brown Soul Brother No. 1
1978
9.0
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973NR
Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective)
1973
8.0
Владыки без масок. Гарольд Хант - апостол «ультра»
1970
7.3
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970NR
Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis
1969
5.9
LBJ
1968
NR
Martin Luther King at Newcastle University
1967NR
13 November 1967: Martin Luther King Interview
1967
7.2
Omnibus
1967
NR
After Civil Rights... Black Power
1967
5.7
I Am Curious (Yellow)
1967
NR
Anno Domini MCMLXV
1966
9.0
The Bus
1965
7.0
The March
1964
NR
Wealth of a Nation
1964NR
Union and Freedom
1964NR
I Have a Dream
1963
NR
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
1963
NR
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
7.0
World in Action
1963
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
7.6
Integration Report 1
1960
7.0
The David Susskind Show
1959NR
King vs. the United States of America
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