I Am Not Your Negro(2017)

Magnolia Pictures

PG-13
1h 33m
- Documentary
- History

Release Date: Feb 3, 2017 | Limited

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Official Website

Releases

Original Release | Feb 3, 2017

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$686,378
Total US & Canada:
$7,123,919
Total International
$1,221,379
Total Worldwide:
$8,345,298

Director & Top Cast

Raoul Peck
Director

Bill Ross IV

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: France,United States,Belgium,Switzerland

Language: English,French

Summaries

Storyline

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 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 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. — Jwelch5742 Through Samuel L. Jackson 's familiar voice, Raoul Peck 's bold and brutally honest documentary animates the crisp and noble words of the African-American writer, civil rights activist, poet, and thinker, James Baldwin . Expressing bitter truths while documenting centuries of covert or unapologetic racism, Baldwin's uncompleted thirty-page manuscript, "Remember this House", was meant to be the sadly veracious chronicle of the American history, through the intertwined stories of the fallen heroes and assassinated friends: Martin Luther King , Medgar Evers , and Malcolm X . Is James Baldwin's complex endeavour to document the hopelessness of the black people still relevant today? Are we doomed to repeat the same calamitous mistakes of an ignoble past? — Nick Riganas Based on Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House - a stirring, personal account of the lives and deaths of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. - acclaimed director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States, using meticulously assembled archival footage and driven by stirring voiceover narration from Samuel L. Jackson.

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