MLK/FBI is a documentary about how the FBI under J Edgar Hoover obsessively followed and bugged Martin Luther King Junior during the 1960s. The material was interesting and we learned some things we did not know, but the delivery was very dry. The title ought to have been FBI/MLK. It was a mix of old footage, clips from fictional films and TV shows about the FBI (those parts seemed very hokey), images of FBI reports and interviews with people who either knew King (Andrew Young, for example) or knew about the inner workings of the FBI (James Comey). The end result was not as moving or impactful as we had expected.
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