Citizen King

Name: Citizen King
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2004-01-01
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Taylor Branch, David Halberstam, Andrew Young, Martin Luther King Jr.

Citizen King (2004)

2:00 (120 min)

Documentary

United States

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Production

Roja Productions Inc., WGBH

Release date

1 January 2004

Director

Orlando Bagwell

Scenario

Orlando Bagwell

Composer

Camara Kambon

Producer

Orlando Bagwell

All team (6)

Actors

Taylor Branch

himself

David Halberstam

himself

Andrew Young

himself

Martin Luther King Jr.

himself (archive footage)

All actors and roles (4)

Short description

Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The story begins at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism and comes to a bloody end five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis. King has since become a mythic figure, an activist whose works and image are more hotly contested, negotiated and sold than almost anyone else's in American history. (Storyville)