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This edition: Sam Pollard

Episode Details

Original tape date: February 24, 2021. First aired: March 10, 2021.

A powerful new film about the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King has arrived. For the first time we see the grotesque dimensions of the FBI’s relentless pursuit of King… the result of J Edgar Hoover’s fevered obsession with the Civil Rights leader. the film is also a fascinating examination of its protaganists – King and Hoover – as complex human beings.

MLK/FBI, it’s called; the latest work from esteemed filmmaker Sam Pollard.

Guest List

Sam Pollard American film director, editor, producer, and screenwriter