Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

MLK/FBI / Field of Vision and Play/Action Pictures present ; a TradesCraft Films production ; written by Benjamin Hedin, Laura Tomaselli ; produced by Benjamin Hedin ; directed by Sam Pollard.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : IFC Films, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Subjects:

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Cointelpro -- History.

Undercover operations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

African American civil rights workers -- Biography.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Biographical films.

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Pollard, Sam, film director.

Hedin, Benjamin, film producer, screenwriter.

Tomaselli, Laura, screenwriter.

Comey, James, 1960- on-screen participant.

Gage, Beverly, on-screen participant.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968, on-screen participant.

Field of Vision, presenter.

Play/Action Pictures, presenter.

TradesCraft Films, production company.

IFC Films, publisher.

Notes:

Title from web page.

Based upon the book "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: from 'Solo' to Memphis" by David J. Garrow.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2020.

Wide screen.

Director of photography, Robert Chappell ; editor, Laura Tomaselli ; score composed by Gerald Clayton.

James Comey, Beverly Gage, Martin Luther King Jr.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen; Dolby digital 5.1.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

ISBN:

9786318660198 : DVD

6318660194 : DVD

Publisher Number:

IFC14260DVD

Other Number:

1285323651

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

938373

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 323.1196 MLK/FBI