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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.
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 · As the film charts the last three years of his life, we see a world where King is increasingly dismayed by the brutality of the world around him. We see younger civil rights leaders increasingly claiming that violence must be met with violence. We see the Vietnam War continue to wage on and on without an end in sight.
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.
Mar 29, 2018 · We hear a secretly recorded Chicago Mayor Richard Daley telling President Lyndon Johnson that King was “a goddamn faker,” and hear black ministers, part of Daley’s patronage system, demand ...
In KING IN THE WILDERNESS, 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, witnesses to his struggles speak about his good work, his decency, his dedication, and his sense of moral responsibility to help achieve equal rights for all in the United States.
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Apr 2, 2018 · After he spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King solidified his position as one of the greatest leaders of the civil rights movement and became one of America's most celebrated...
