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In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.
Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Original Release
11/11/2016
US Release
11/11/2016
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Samuel L. Jackson | Narration / Narrator (voice) |
James Baldwin | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Martin Luther King | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Malcolm X | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Medgar Evers | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Robert F. Kennedy | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Harry Belafonte | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Paul Weiss | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Dick Cavett | Self / Self (archive footage) |
H. Rap Brown | Self - Black Panther Party / Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage) |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Samuel L. Jackson | Narration / Narrator (voice) |
James Baldwin | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Martin Luther King | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Malcolm X | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Medgar Evers | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Robert F. Kennedy | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Harry Belafonte | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Paul Weiss | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Dick Cavett | Self / Self (archive footage) |
H. Rap Brown | Self - Black Panther Party / Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage) |
Bob Dylan | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Leander Perez | Self - White Citizens Council / Self - White Citizens Council (archive footage) |
Sidney Poitier | Various Roles (archive footage) / Various Roles |
Ray Charles | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Doris Day | Various Roles |
Gary Cooper | Frank Flannagan |
Tony Curtis | John 'Joker' Jackson |
Clinton Rosemond | Tump Redwine (clip from They Won't Forget (1937)) |
Joan Crawford | Bonnie |
Rod Steiger | Gillespie |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Raoul Peck | Producer |
Joelle Bertossa | Producer |
Rémi Grellety | Producer |
Hébert Peck | Producer |
Audrey Rosenberg | Producer |
Amy Shatsky-Gambrill | Producer |
Patrick Quinet | Producer |
Editors
Trailers
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2017 | Oscar | Best Documentary Feature | Nominated |