Malcolm X / 19927.4139 voti

Per Malcolm Little la vita è sempre stata caratterizzata dalla sofferenza e dalla lotta: un'infanzia infelice trascorsa tra orfanatrofi e riformatori. Prova sulla sua pelle la violenza del Ku Klux Klan e il degrado dei ghetti neri; diviene spacciatore, sfruttatore e conosce nuovamente la galera, ma l'incontro con il musulmano nero Elijah Muhammad gli cambia la vita: rifiuta il cognome impostogli dalla società bianca ribattezzandosi Malcolm X e divenendo il capo e la guida di tutti i neri che ... La vita di Malcolm X. È basato sull'Autobiografia di Malcolm X.

Chi ha ucciso Malcolm X? / 20198.02 voti

Malcolm X (1925-1965) è stato un attivista per i diritti umani e leader nella lotta civile degli afroamericani. Carismatico e controverso leader, Malcolm X è stato ucciso con sette colpi di arma da fuoco, durante un comizio a Manhattan, New York.

Malcolm X / 1972

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali / 2021

Dall'incontro casuale al tragico epilogo, lo straordinario legame tra Malcolm X e Muhammad Ali si spezza sotto il peso della sfiducia e degli ideali mutevoli.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X / 2001

The Autobiography of Malcolm X is an account of the life of Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little in 1925, who became a human rights activist. Malcolm X was assassinated in New York's Audubon Ballroom in February 1965.

The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X / 2023

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, is Malcolm, alongside soprano Leah Hawkins as his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis as his sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson as Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto.

Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom /

Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom was praised by directors like Chris Marker and Joris Ivens for its up-close portrayal of the radical civil rights leader, directed by Jamaican-American filmmaker Lebert Bethune.

Malcolm X: Make It Plain / 1994

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.

The Real Malcolm X /

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The film intercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, scholars, and writers. CBS documents Malcolm's move from being Elijah Muhammad's deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam: his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be. CBS details his death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm. Maya Angelou, Dick Gregory, and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments. "He was our manhood," eulogized Ossie Davis.

Malcolm X Liberation University / 1969

The 1960s black student movement at Duke University evolved into a separate institution to study and engage with the history and culture of the African diaspora. This film was produced for the National Educational Television (WNET) Black Journal.

Malcolm X: A Search for Identity /

This installment of "Biography" tells the complete story of controversial African American orator Malcolm X, beginning with his childhood in the segregated America of the Jazz Age and following his early years as a leader in the Nation of Islam. Interviews, photos and film footage reveal a life of continuous growth and change cut short by assassination -- just as greater possibilities seemed to be on the horizon.

Seven Songs for Malcolm X / 1993

The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.

A Tribute to Malcolm X / 1967

A short film made for William Greaves' "Black Journal" that discusses the influence of Malcolm X, and includes an interview with his widow, Betty Shabbazz.

Les derniers jours d'une icône - Malcolm X /