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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.
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.
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.
- Peter Kunhardt
- Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
- HBO Max
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.
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 ...
Mar 30, 2018 · We witness King's eye-opening experiences in Chicago in 1966, marching against segregation in housing and encountering outright hatred in the streets, with people brandishing "White Power" and...
