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King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis
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| King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | [Sidney Lumet]] Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Produced by | Richard Kaplan Ely A. Landau |
| Narrated by | Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Ruby Dee James Earl Jones |
| Release date(s) | 1970 |
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 documentary film which tells the life story of Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.. It contains several celebrity narrators, including Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones, Clarence Williams III, Burt Lancaster, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marlon Brando and Paul Winfield.
The movie was directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Richard Kaplan and Ely A. Landau.
When first released, it was shown in theatres as a "one-time-only" event on March 24, 1970. The documentary, which ran an unprecedented 3 hours and 5 minutes, had an equally large admission price of $5. All proceeds were donated to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Special Fund. It was later shown on commercial television (unedited and with limited interruption), and finally released onto home video on the Pacific Arts label, where the celebrity narrations (save for Harry Belafonte's introduction) were removed, and ran for 1 hour and 43 minutes.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Features. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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