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I Am Not Your Negro
2017R1h 33m7.7 / 10
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.
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Synopsis
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.
More about I Am Not Your Negro
Cast
Samuel L. JacksonNarrator (voice)
James BaldwinSelf (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.Self (archive footage)
Malcolm XSelf (archive footage)
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSelf (archive footage)
Billy Dee WilliamsSelf (archive footage)
Rod SteigerSelf (archive footage)Credits
- Directed by
- Raoul Peck
- Written by
- James Baldwin
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $1M
- Box office
- $7.1M
Production
- Independent LensUnited States
RTBFBelgium
ARTEFrance
Shelter ProdBelgium
RTSSwitzerland
Velvet FilmFrance
Themes
1950s1960samerican apartheidcontestationfight against racismhistorical documentaryinterviewjames baldwin
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