MLK/FBI

What are we going to do with the material itself? It's a question whose answers remain to be seen. The accomplishment of Pollard's documentary is that it so capably and persuasively prepares us to ask it.

Cleverly uses the FBI's pursuit of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr to tell the entwined history of leftwing protest and state-sanctioned surveillance.

I think it really shows the importance of King as a person, as a human, as opposed to the icon that we have come to think of him as.

This documentary is a really necessary rewind... to remind everybody how Martin Luther King Jr. was seen in his day, at his time.

In you're interested in American politics, you will obviously be interested in this...a relevant subject to be discussing.

By suggesting the enormous strain King endured while he was being taunted and blackmailed by his own government, "MLK/FBI" provides another lens through which to appreciate his commitment.

A potent dual achievement: It covers the history of the FBI's years-long obsession with civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while presenting a more human, even flawed, portrait of King than has ever been attempted before.

The riveting documentary MLK/FBI gives a clear and precise presentation of how the FBI targeted civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.

If you're going to make a documentary about the FBI spying on Martin Luther King, why leave the tastiest bits on the cutting room floor?

An effective way to engage the audience first through image, then through argument.