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Summary
Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+24)
Critics 90Audiences 66GoodWatch 78
Tomatometer98%
Metascore81
IMDb7.0
Audience score66%
User score6.1
Running time
1 h 44 min
A typical length for documentaries, +8 min on the typical 96
typical 96104Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 9 countries, rent or buy in 3 more
Released
2020
September 15, 2020
6 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 2 moreDirecting · 1
- Sam Pollard Director
Writing · 3
- Laura Tomaselli Writer, Editor
- Benjamin Hedin Writer, Producer
- David J. Carrow Book
Production · 11
- Dana O'Keefe Executive Producer
- Charlotte Cook Executive Producer
- Marie Therese Guirgis Executive Producer
- Jeffrey Lurie Executive Producer
- David Friend Executive Producer
- Steven Farneth Executive Producer
Camera · 1
- Robert Chappell Director of Photography
Sound · 4
- Gerald Clayton Music
- James David Redding III Sound Designer, Sound Effects Editor
- Ken Hahn Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Bill Marino Dialogue Editor
Art · 1
- Dedalus Wainwright Production Design
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