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Feb 03, 2017
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I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

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Documentary

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Belgium France United States of America

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Samuel L. Jackson

Narrator (voice)

James Baldwin

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self (archive footage)

Billy Dee Williams

Self (archive footage)

Rod Steiger

Self (archive footage)

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