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Documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro

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The 3 reasons people love I Am Not Your Negro

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  1. You want Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes.

  2. You want the real archive footage of the civil rights years.

  3. You like James Baldwin's words, read by Samuel L. Jackson.

Picks that share your reasons

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  • Amend: The Fight for America2021

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes
    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you like the real people who fought for equal rights in America.

  • Hitler: A Career1977

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes
    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.

  • 13th2016

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes
    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you like an argument built from archives, laws and numbers.

  • O.J.: Made in America2016

    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you want to understand a trial through the city around it.

  • The Times of Harvey Milk1984

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes
    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you want the real Harvey Milk, in the footage of his time.

  • The Fog of War2003

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes
    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you like hearing a man in power explain his own decisions.

  • Shoah1985

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes

    Good for you if you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.

  • BlacKkKlansman2018

    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you like stories that really happened.

  • Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror2021

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes
    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you want the personal stories of people who lived through that day.

  • Best of Enemies2015

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes
    • James Baldwin's words, read by Samuel L. Jackson

    Good for you if you love two brilliant speakers trading cutting lines.

  • To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb2023

    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes

    Good for you if you want the real story behind the Oppenheimer film.

  • LA 922017

    • the real archive footage of the civil rights years

    Good for you if you want to see the 1992 Los Angeles riots as they were filmed at the time.

  • The Unknown Known2013

    • James Baldwin's words, read by Samuel L. Jackson

    Good for you if you like Errol Morris questioning someone who plays with words.

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