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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.
Feb 1, 2018 · It just wasn’t made public. The movie humanizes King, in occasionally startling ways.
Mar 30, 2018 · Though King’s powerful oratory skills often made him seem larger than life, the King we see in his new documentary is almost shockingly human. Throughout Kunhardt’s film we are ushered into private moments like these in order to see a nuanced portrait of a man who remains steadfast in his principles, even as his heart is breaking.
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 ...
Apr 6, 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. King’s fervent belief in ...
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"King In the Wilderness" (2018 release; 112 min.) is a documentary about Martin Luther King's roughly last two years. As the movie opens, we are reminded that MLK was murdered on "April 4, 1968" and that "50 years later, friends recall his last years".
