Status
Released
Release
2017
Runtime
1h 33m
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
7 Cast Members
Samuel L. Jackson
Narrator (voice)
James Baldwin
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Billy Dee Williams
Rod Steiger
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