I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

93 mins | Documentary | Feb. 3, 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.

I Am Not Your Negro

93 mins | Documentary | Feb. 3, 2017

I Am Not Your Negro
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.
IMDb rating 7.9
Producers ARTE, RTBF, Velvet Film, RTS, Independent Lens, Shelter Prod
Original title I Am Not Your Negro
Directors Raoul Peck
Writers James Baldwin, Raoul Peck

Cast

Samuel L. Jackson

as Narration (voice)

James Baldwin

as Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

as Self (archive footage)

Medgar Evers

as Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

Harry Belafonte

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Weiss

as Self (archive footage)

Dick Cavett

as Self (archive footage)

H. Rap Brown

as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

Bob Dylan

as Self (archive footage)

Leander Perez

as Self - White Citizens Council (archive footage)

Sidney Poitier

as Various Roles (archive footage)

Ray Charles

as Self (archive footage)