Originally broadcast as a television mini series in 1978. Bonus features: Recreating history: the making of King (15:30); In conversation with Abby Mann & Tony Bennett (18:57); The struggle (19:55); The civil rights movement (19:26) Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Ossie Davis, Ernie Hudson, Roscoe Lee Browne, Tony Bennett, Lonny Chapman, Cliff De Young, Al Freeman, Jr., Clu Gulager, Steven Hill, William Jordan, Warren Kemmerling, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Kenneth McMillan, Howard Rollins, David Spielberg, Dolph Sweet, Dick Anthony Williams.
Summary:
Tracing the story of the civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's rise from his early years as a Baptist minister in Memphis to his assassination in 1968, is riveting storytelling of the highest order, combining first-rate performances with spiritual, political and social themes that remain as relevant today as they were in the era portrayed.
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