MLK/FBI

| Release Date: January 15, 2021

5.9	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Ratings

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diplomaticJun 6, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So informative as I did not learn any of this in school. The contrast between MLK winning the Nobel Peace Prize but then the longtime head of the FBI wiretapping him to look for anything to denounce him and take away his influence. How when he came out against the war in Vietnam the Johnson administration which had signed the Civil Rights Act then stopped supporting him. And mainly how, in his day, the media portrayed him as a terrorist and the majority of the public believed it. Whereas today he’s known to be a revered leader of non violent protest for human rights. A must see.… Expand

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jhomer609Jan 19, 2021

MLK/FBI (2021) has been praised by many, but one has to question the motives behind it. The fact that the director, Sam Pollard, is Black and has done terrific work previously does not change the fact that he was taken for a ride here and isMLK/FBI (2021) has been praised by many, but one has to question the motives behind it. The fact that the director, Sam Pollard, is Black and has done terrific work previously does not change the fact that he was taken for a ride here and is complicit in an unnecessary take-down of a great man. This take-down was initiated by historian David Garrow, with his 2019 article (for the conservative British magazine Standpoint) calling MLK a "sexual libertine". Garrow has also been derided for his vicious take-down of President Obama in his 2017 book Rising Star. Other historians call the FBI evidence "very flimsy" and speculative and say we should be "deeply suspicious". Do we see filmmakers rushing to make similar smearing movies about JFK or FDR, who also had mistresses? No. So then, why this fascination with salacious, defamatory material on great Black men? Why have A.O. Scott and other prominent reviewers not recognized the fact that this film is ultimately a confused smear piece? I will not comment on the film technically, although I find it deficient in this respect, as well. This film may be revealing but it is also repugnant, and (like a Leni Riefenstahl Fascist film festival) should be avoided.… Expand

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