MLK/FBI

...Pollard does what any good historian should do: take the information and contextualize it, in doing so opening up new lines of discussion.

Myth and legend are pushed aside, creating a human portrait of a great leader, warts and all.

...Sam Pollard finds some fresh ground to explore in this absorbing, elegant documentary.

King dominates the conversation in the film as he did in life, laying out the depth of the social ills he attacked...

...shows how bizarrely toxic and dysfunctional the FBI’s campaign was...

...cleverly uses the FBI’s pursuit of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr to tell the entwined history of leftwing protest and state-sanctioned surveillance.