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I Am Not Your Negro

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

20171h 33mRDocumentary

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About I Am Not Your Negro

Directors
Raoul Peck
Cast
Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Dee Williams
Genres
Documentary
Content rating
R
Original language
English
Production countries
Belgium, France, United States of America
Status
Released

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