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King in the Wilderness is an American documentary film about Martin Luther King Jr. that premiered on April 2, 2018 on HBO, focusing on the final two years of his life leading up to his assassination on April 4, 1968.
Apr 9, 2018 · When the filmmakers behind HBO’s new documentary King in the Wilderness first began wading through television news stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) from his assassination to the present, they found that all of them defined him solely by his iconic 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.
Apr 2, 2018 · In interviews, King's companions describe the successes the Atlanta native achieved after his renowned 1963 speech—like how King stood against the Vietnam War, broke racial barriers in the...
Jan 11, 2018 · KING IN THE WILDERNESS reveals a conflicted leader who, after the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum; the Black Power movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and President Lyndon B Johnson saw his anti-Vietnam War speeches as irresponsible.
Feb 1, 2018 · A searing portrait of the last 18 months of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life captures the Civil Rights leader in a purgatory of anxiety and conflict.
Mar 30, 2018 · Many of the images of violence that we see in “King in the Wilderness” seem as though they could be taken today and it’s depressing that 50 years after Dr. King’s assassination the country seems just as polarized and violent as it did in the Civil Rights era.
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Jan 21, 2018 · In 1964’s Why We Can’t Wait, King made the case for African Americans to have both access to integrated facilities and the economic means to use them.
