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In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of his manuscript. Working from this text, filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words (read by Samuel L. Jackson) and flood of rich archival material.

This incendiary documentary connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter, questioning black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. D: Raoul Peck, US, 2016, 1h 35m

Part of the Dartmouth Film Society series Reel Change

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