Martin Luther King Day Celebration

Date: Mon, January 18th 2010
Event Tags: The Movies
Location: AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center

Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration
KING: A FILMED RECORD … MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS

Special free screening!

Dir. Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz

A riveting compilation of documentary footage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from the Montgomery bus boycott to the "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, from the dogs of Selma to the Nobel Prize and the fateful balcony in Memphis. Includes narration and on-screen commentary from Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Clarence Williams III and many more.