In this deeply powerful and relevant documentary, Emmy-award winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Pollard explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of the widely celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly declassified files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Pollard’s film MLK/FBI performs the vital task of examining J. Edgar Hoover’s relentless campaign against King. This documentary explores the government's history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind one of America’s most cherished institutions. 

(USA, 2020, 104 min)

Sam Pollard is among cinema’s most dedicated chroniclers of the Black experience in America, moving freely across film and long-form television as well as narrative and documentary for the past four decades. He is known for editing the Spike Lee films Mo’ Better Blues, Clockers, 4 Little Girls, and Bamboozled. Pollard’s credits as director include episodes of the series Eyes on the Prize; Slavery by Another Name; Two Trains Runnin’; and the TIFF selection Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me. MLK/FBI is his latest film.