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Citizen King(2004)
Status: Released
Date: 2004-01-01
78%
4 Votes
Time: 2h 0m
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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)
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Roja Productions Inc.
Movie: Citizen King
Top 4 Billed Cast
Taylor Branch
Self
Andrew Young
Self
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
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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)
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2004-01-01
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