I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro
    2017

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Samuel L. JacksonNarrator (voice)
    • James BaldwinSelf (archive footage)
    • Martin Luther King Jr.Self (archive footage)
    • Malcolm XSelf (archive footage)
    • Medgar EversSelf (archive footage)
    • Robert F. KennedySelf (archive footage)
    • Harry BelafonteSelf (archive footage)
    • Paul WeissSelf (archive footage)
    • Dick CavettSelf (archive footage)
    • H. Rap BrownSelf - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Guardian

      It is a striking work of storytelling. By assembling the scattered images and historical clips suggested by Baldwin’s writing, I Am Not Your Negro is a cinematic séance, and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made.
    • 100

      Variety

      Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro is the rare movie that might be called a spiritual documentary.
    • 100

      Village Voice

      Readers of Baldwin’s work already know that it’s as timely and relevant today as it was when he wrote it decades ago. I Am Not Your Negro powerfully highlights this point for today.
    • 100

      Time Out

      Masterfully addressing the American racial divide, past and present, director Raoul Peck’s six-years-in-the-making documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is a galvanizing, ominous film, thrumming with a sense of history repeating itself.
    • 100

      Los Angeles Times

      What makes I Am Not Your Negro a mesmerizing cinematic experience, smart, thoughtful and disturbing, goes well beyond words.
    • 100

      The Guardian

      It is a striking work of storytelling. By assembling the scattered images and historical clips suggested by Baldwin’s writing, I Am Not Your Negro is a cinematic séance, and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made.
    • 100

      Variety

      Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro is the rare movie that might be called a spiritual documentary.
    • 100

      Village Voice

      Readers of Baldwin’s work already know that it’s as timely and relevant today as it was when he wrote it decades ago. I Am Not Your Negro powerfully highlights this point for today.

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