DOC: King [MLK] in the Wilderness
Write up from Teaching Tolerance's "What We're Watching Section" Fall 2018
King in the Wilderness
In the new documentary King in the Wilderness, close friends of Martin Luther King Jr. tell the story of his last years, from his role in the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to his assassination in 1968. Toward the end of a 12-year era of tireless civil rights advocacy, the film shows how King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference expanded their focus to address the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism. King in the Wilderness also touches on King’s personal side, his intimate relationships and the toll his work took on his mental health in the final years of his life. With quiet elegance and historical acuity, the film explores King’s unshakeable commitment to nonviolence as an immutable principle in the face of a swiftly changing movement. (111 min.)
King in the Wilderness
In the new documentary King in the Wilderness, close friends of Martin Luther King Jr. tell the story of his last years, from his role in the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to his assassination in 1968. Toward the end of a 12-year era of tireless civil rights advocacy, the film shows how King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference expanded their focus to address the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism. King in the Wilderness also touches on King’s personal side, his intimate relationships and the toll his work took on his mental health in the final years of his life. With quiet elegance and historical acuity, the film explores King’s unshakeable commitment to nonviolence as an immutable principle in the face of a swiftly changing movement. (111 min.)
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