King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis
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.
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.