A documentary film about racial issues in the USA.
An essential documentary nowadays, which combines many important elements of the racial debate in America. Created in 2016 by filmmaker Raoul Peck, it deals with the view of renowned novelist and activist James Baldwin, who set out to create a manuscript about the deaths of three of his friends: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers.
The documentary is well-constructed of archival footage of the three men and Baldwin himself, with Baldwin's written words in a voiceover as a main narrative. This film is shedding light on an insightful perspective, namely of a person who was both a personally involved human being, but also a leading intellectual of his time. It is very educational but also inspiring, heartbreaking, and thought-provoking.
This documentary is currently available for free on the Swiss TV page SRF, from now on for a month. (link here)
English version with German subtitles.
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