The film includes some never-before-seen footage of interviews with some of those closest to King interspersed with historical archives during a period of his life. In addition to upsetting both President
Lyndon Johnson and the FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover, as well as numerous other opposition groups, and despite King's own self-doubts as he was coming to terms with his possible death, he refused to back away from the civil rights and anti-war challenges of his times. The film focuses on events in King's life and the
civil rights movement such as the
Chicago Freedom Movement, the
James Meredith march, the
anti-Vietnam War protests and King's "
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech, the
1967 riots, preparation for the
Poor People's Campaign, the
Memphis sanitation strike, the "
I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, and
King's assassination and
funeral. Among King's colleagues and friends interviewed in the documentary are
Bernard Lafayette,
Andrew Young,
Diane Nash,
Harry Belafonte,
John Lewis,
Dorothy Cotton,
Joan Baez,
Xernona Clayton,
Jesse Jackson, Mary Lou Finley,
Cleveland Sellers, and
C. T. Vivian. ==Accolades==