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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 · It just wasn’t made public. The movie humanizes King, in occasionally startling ways.
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...
Mar 29, 2018 · As directed by Peter Kunhardt, and playing at Laemmle’s Playhouse in Pasadena before airing on HBO on April 2, the film made the decision to, in its own words, “have [King’s] friends sit down...
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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What you didn't know about Martin Luther King Jr?
Would he take a stand against the war being waged by Lyndon Johnson, the president who had gotten the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed? In an inspiring speech at New York's Riverside Church, the gifted preacher linked the systemic racism of America to its immoral deeds overseas.
