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I am not your Negro

Title: I am not your Negro / Magnolia Pictures ; Amazon Studios ; Velvet Film, Inc. (USA), Velvet Film (France) present in coproduction with Artémis Productions, Close Up Films ; in coproduction with ARTE France, Independent Lens, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, RTBF (Télévision belge), Shelter Prod ; written by James Baldwin ; directed by Raoul Peck ; produced by Rémi Grellety, Raoul Peck, Hébert Peck ; a Raoul Peck film.
Publication: Los Angeles, Calif. : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2017]

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Description

1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : DVD video, sound, color, black and white; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Using James Baldwin's unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author's friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., delving into the legacy of these iconic figures and narrating historic events using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. An up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, this film is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.

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Genre/Form

Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Note

Based on James Baldwin's unfinished book, "Remember this house."
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2016.
Special features: Interview with director Raoul Peck; Q&A session with Samuel L. Jackson; Q&A session with director Raoul Peck; video photo gallery.

Credits (note)

Edited by Alexandra Strauss ; directors of photography, Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, and Turner Ross ; music composed by Alexei Aigui ; James Baldwin material compiled and edited by Raoul Peck.

System Details (note)

DVD; region 1, NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1); 5.1 Dolby digital.

Language (note)

In English with optional subtitles in Spanish and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Contents

On Cavett -- Paying my dues -- Heroes -- Witness -- Memorandum -- Philosophies -- I was not a racist -- Medgar Evers -- Purity -- Sex symbols -- Selling the negro -- I'm sorry -- War -- What I know -- MLK Jr. -- Senseless.

Title

I am not your Negro / Magnolia Pictures ; Amazon Studios ; Velvet Film, Inc. (USA), Velvet Film (France) present in coproduction with Artémis Productions, Close Up Films ; in coproduction with ARTE France, Independent Lens, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, RTBF (Télévision belge), Shelter Prod ; written by James Baldwin ; directed by Raoul Peck ; produced by Rémi Grellety, Raoul Peck, Hébert Peck ; a Raoul Peck film.

Publisher

Los Angeles, Calif. : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2017]

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Physical Medium

4 3/4 in. stamping rda

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD video region 1

System Details

DVD; region 1, NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1); 5.1 Dolby digital.

Performer

With the voice of Samuel L. Jackson ; featuring James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Dick Cavett, Ray Charles, George W. Bush.

Credits

Edited by Alexandra Strauss ; directors of photography, Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, and Turner Ross ; music composed by Alexei Aigui ; James Baldwin material compiled and edited by Raoul Peck.

Language

In English with optional subtitles in Spanish and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Peck, Raoul, film director, film producer, compiler, editor of moving image work.

Grellety, Rémi, film producer.

Peck, Hébert, 1958- film producer.

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, screenwriter, on-screen participant.

Adebonojo, Henry, 1959- director of photography.

Ross, Bill, 1980- director of photography.

Ross, Turner, 1982- director of photography.

Aĭgi, Alekseĭ, composer (expression)

Strauss, Alexandra, editor of moving image work.

Jackson, Samuel L., narrator.

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, on-screen participant.

Brando, Marlon, on-screen participant.

Cavett, Dick, on-screen participant.

Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- on-screen participant.

Adaptation of (work) Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Remember this house.

Magnolia Pictures (Firm), production company.

Amazon Studios, production company.

Velvet Film GmbH, production company.

Artémis productions (Belgium), production company.

Close Up Films, production company.

ARTE France, production company.

Radio-télévision suisse, production company.

Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française, production company.

Shelter Prod (Firm), production company.

Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.

Branch Call Number

DVDR 2051 I

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