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Sadly, the Depression-era photos, film clips, and stories in Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell’s “ Riding the Rails” (1998) don’t seem much different from those of today’s victims of a pandemic and a failed economy. Inspired by Thomas Minehan’s 1934 book, “Boy and Girl Tramps of America,” Uys solicited letters from those who had survived that experience. He received over 3,000 replies. He and Lovell narrowed these subjects down to 10 men and women — then i...

On Demand: MLK/FBI is a terrifying look at racist paranoia Matt Shiverdecker Special to the American-Statesman Here are some new releases available through digital and cable providers, as well as some titles available for streaming later this week.  Video on demand "MLK/FBI": Longtime Spike Lee collaborator Sam Pollards latest documentary examines what former FBI director James Comey has called "the darkest chapter in the bureaus history." Using newly unclassified documents and recordings, P...

HBO’s Tiger Woods Doc Drives 37% More Viewers for Part 2 Over Premiere Second half of the documentary from directors Matthew Heineman and Matt Hamachek draws 874,000 viewersReid Nakamura | January 20, 2021 @ 12:11 PM Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images The second half of HBO’s Tiger Woods documentary drew 874,000 total viewers on Sunday night, charting significant growth over Part 1. Part 2 of “Tiger,” which notably featured Rachel Uchitel’s first-ever sit-down interview about her relation...

Martin Luther King III said his father would be disappointed by the current state of poverty and income equality,

Courtesy of IFC FilmsIn the new Martin Luther King Jr. documentary MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard explores the governmen...

I am aware that discussing Dr. King’s legacy is so very much Not My Place, but nominally I’d agree celebration is preferable to the alternative… … “While the rest of the country is tearing down memorials to symbols that don’t represent us, Boston is building a memorial — a 22-foot, three-story high memorial — that represents who we want to be and who we want to be post-pandemic,” said King Boston Executive Director Imari Paris Jeffries. “That feels pretty darn exciting.” �...

Rolling Stone In ‘MLK/FBI,’ Director Sam Pollard Investigates Why Hoover Needed His Civil Rights Villain By the film’s end, Martin Luther King Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover — who met face-to-face only once — emerge as an inseparable American pair By K. Austin Collinss Most Recent Stories The title of Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI should be taken literally. This is a two-pronged investigation into a conspicuously fraught and, for the FBI, embarrassing moment in the American political es...

Here’s a selection of streaming films to educate, illuminate and spark conversation about MLK, his legacy, the history of the fight for racial justice in the United States and those who continue his work to this day.

Liam Neesons The Marksman ends Wonder Woman 1984 US box office reign Toggle share menu Advertisement Liam Neesons The Marksman ends Wonder Woman 1984 US box office reign This is Neesons second movie to top the box office during the pandemic after Honest Thief. FILE PHOTO: Actor Liam Neeson arrives for the world premiere of Widows at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada, September 8, 2018. REUTERS/Mark Blinch 18 Jan 202...

“MLK/FBI,” which IFC Films will release in theaters and on-demand Friday, chronicles one of the darkest chapters in the bureau’s history: the yearslong...