Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

86 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | March 24, 2018

A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s. From Selma to Charlottesville, we also see how modern activists use today's technology to continue fighting injustice today.

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

86 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | March 24, 2018

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s. From Selma to Charlottesville, we also see how modern activists use today's technology to continue fighting injustice today.
Producers
Original title Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Directors Phil Bertelsen, Rachel Dretzin
Writers

Cast

Martin Agronsky

as Self (archive footage)

Joseph Boyce

as Self

Taylor Branch

as Self

David Brinkley

as Self (archive footage)

Tom Brokaw

as Self

Courtland Cox

as Self

Walter Cronkite

as Self (archive footage)

Virgil Dominic

as Self (archive footage)

James Doyle

as Self (archive footage)

Benjamin Fine

as Self (archive footage)

David Garrow

as Self

Dorothy Butler Gilliam

as Herself (as Dorothy Gilliam)

Amy Goodman

as Herself

Ernest Green

as Himself

Bryant Gumbel

as Himself

Nikole Hannah-Jones

as Herself

John Hart

as Himself (archive footage)

Chris Hayes

as Himself

Lester Holt

as Narrator

Jesse Jackson

as Himself

Al Sharpton

as Self