The filmmaker as historian: Sam Pollard and MLK/FBI
Sam Pollard, a film editor, in New York, Jan. 15, 2021. Whether working on his own projects or others like Eyes on the Prize II and 4 Little Girls, the multihyphenate artist has built a monumental career examining America. Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.
by Nicolas Rapold
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Midway through the new documentary MLK/FBI, we get glimpses of a Martin Luther King Jr. not often seen in the usual montages of the civil rights movement. The 1963 March on Washington has taken place and he has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. This King is under myriad strains from the burdens of leadership, budding concerns about Vietnam, political and mortal threats, and round-the-clock surveillance by his own countrys chief law enforcement agency.
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