His was the angry voice of a people kept silent for centuries. But at the height of his power, his outspoken independence led to his assassination.
Malcolm X was one of this century's most charismatic leaders, a man so complex and influential that his name still stirs argument 30 years after his murder.
Biography brings you his complete story, beginning with his childhood in the racist and segregated America of the Jazz Age and his early years as the Harlem hoodlum "Detroit Red."
You'll follow the future leader through his prison conversion and rise to prominence with the Nation of Islam, where he became a voice of hope for African-Americans.
Interviews, photos and film footage reveal a life of continuous growth and change, a life cut short as greater possibilities seemed on the horizon.
Join Biography for this in-depth look at the controversial man who shocked a nation out of comfortable complacency--and whose boldness gave hope to millions of African-Americans.
This increadible film follows the events in the final twenty four hours of the life of Controversial, Religious and Political leader malcolm X.
Fanatics tried to firebomb his home. They tried to murder him while he sleep.
Why way he so hatted?
Where were the police on the day of his assassination?
How did his killers manage to escape?
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Actors: Yolanda King, Mansoor Najeeullah, Morgan Freeman
This video covers an era in the Muslim American leader's public life during which his evolving attitudes can slowly be detected making him one of the most prominent Muslim leaders of America.
Brother Minister: The Assassination Of Malcolm X is a long, earnest, complex documentary that tries to set the record straight on 30 years of speculation and lies.
Narrated by Roscoe Lee Browne, directed by Jack Baxter and co-written by Baxter and Jefri Aalmuhammed (who was a consultant on Spike Lee's Malcolm X), Brother Minister is a seven-part, exhaustive inquiry into the very tangled web surrounding the 1965 assassination of black activist Malcolm X.
The highly controversial documentary implicates just about everyone you can think of, starting with black leader Louis Farrakhan and moving on to the FBI, the CIA, the New York police, the Nation of Islam and its founder, Elijah Muhammad (the man whose sexual dalliances and eight illegitimate children were exposed by Malcolm X), members of the FOI - the Nation's security force - various bodyguards, and maybe even, in some strange martyrdom thing, Malcolm X himself.
This film names names. According to Brother Minister (and common sense), the death of Malcolm X involves massive cover-up. Innocent men were jailed for his death; the one man known to have been a shooter named his four accomplices in 1978 but none of those men has ever been arrested.
Brother Minister unfolds through archival footage and stills, old newsreels of the aftermath of the assassination, a re-creation of the killing, TV news clips and many, many interviews with Malcolm X's friends and associates. These include - among others - Dr. John Henrik Clarke, who first helped Malcolm X with historical research; assassination witness Robert Higgins; author Baba Zak A. Kondo; lawyer William Kunstler, and convicted killer Thomas 15X Johnson, who served 23 years despite being innocent of Malcolm X's assassination.
To some extent, Brother Minister puts back in context some of Malcolm X's more incendiary statements.
Theme music written & performed by Willie James Abner.
Interviewer: Denis Mueller.
An informative and thought provoking look at the FBI's Cointelpro (Counter Intelligence Program) operations.
Contains rare footage of the influential black leaders of the times, such as: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton.
What a treasure! This program manages to capture the intensity of the sixties, yet have the objectivity and historical distance of time.
How many people know about how in the 1960's, the US Government attempted to interfere with the rights of the nation's citizenry?
That is if you were black.
Through a secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), there was a concerted effort to subvert the will of the people to avoid the rise "of a black Messiah" that would mobilize the African-American community into a meaningful political force.
Were the assassinations of Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and Martin Luther King Jr. the result of this concerted effort to avoid "a black Messiah"?
The Biography of Malcolm X "El Hajj Malik Shabazz" featuring archival footage of Malcolm X from his earliest public apperances to his untimley death. With interviews from his Brother, Sister, John Carlos ('68 Olympics), Martin Luther King, Elijah Muhammad, Betty Shabazz and many more.
Narrated by James Earl Jones and produced with the assistance of Alex Hailey.
