I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

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PG-13
1h 33min
Documentary
17 Feb 2017 (USA)
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Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Director:

Raoul Peck

Writers:

James Baldwin, Raoul Peck

Stars:

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 30 wins & 49 nominations.
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Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel "Remember This House."

Still of James Baldwin (I) in I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

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Cast

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	Samuel L. Jackson	...	Narration (voice)
	James Baldwin	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Martin Luther King	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Malcolm X	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Medgar Evers	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Robert F. Kennedy	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Harry Belafonte	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Paul Weiss	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Dick Cavett	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	H. Rap Brown	...	Himself - Black Panther Party (archiveFootage)
	Bob Dylan	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Leander Perez	...	Himself - White Citizens Council (archiveFootage)
	Sidney Poitier	...	Various Roles (archiveFootage)
	Ray Charles	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Doris Day	...	Various Roles (archiveFootage)
	Gary Cooper	...	Frank Flannagan (archiveFootage)
	Tony Curtis	...	John 'Joker' Jackson (archiveFootage)
	Clinton Rosemond	...	Tump Redwine (clip from They Won't Forget (1937)) (archiveFootage)
	Joan Crawford	...	Bonnie (archiveFootage)
	Rod Steiger	...	Gillespie (archiveFootage)
	Richard Widmark	...	Ray Biddle (archiveFootage)
	Fay Wray	...	Ann Darrow (archiveFootage)
	Marlon Brando	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Charlton Heston	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Michelle Obama	...	Herself (archiveFootage)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Willie Best	...	Exodus (clip from The Monster Walks (1932)) (archiveFootage)
	George W. Bush	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Kenneth Clark	...	Himself (clip from The Negro and the American Promise (1963)) (archiveFootage) (as Dr. Kenneth Clark)
	Tristao Darius	...	Himself
	Stepin Fetchit	...	Richard (clip from I Ain't Gonna Open That Door (1947)) (archiveFootage)
	Lorraine Hansberry	...	Herself (archiveFootage)
	Shumerria Harris	...	Herself
	Audrey Hepburn	...	Ariane Chavasse (archiveFootage)
	J. Edgar Hoover	...	Himself - Head of the FBI (archiveFootage)
	JoeyStarr	...	Narrator french version (voice) (as Joey Starr)
	Coretta Scott King	...	Herself (archiveFootage)
	Rodney King	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Barack Obama	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	Cathy Salvodon	...	Herself
	Arnold Schwarzenegger	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	John Wayne	...	Ringo Kid (archiveFootage)
	Billy Dee Williams	...	Himself (archiveFootage)
	George Bancroft	...	Marshal Curley Wilcox (clip from Stagecoach (1939)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Louise Beavers	...	Delilah Johnson (clip from Imitation of Life (1934)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Dorothy Black	...	Peola Johnson age 10 (clip from Imitation of Life (1934)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Earl Bostic	...	Himself (clip from I Ain't Gonna Open That Door (1947)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Sidney Bracey	...	Herbert Wilkes (clip from The Monster Walks (1932)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Godfrey Cambridge	...	Himself (clip from Chiquita Banana commercial) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	John Carradine	...	Hatfield (clip from Stagecoach (1939)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Linda Darnell	...	Edie Johnson (clip from No Way Out (1950)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Norma Drew	...	Teacher (clip from Imitation of Life (1934)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Carol Haney	...	Gladys Hotchkiss (clip from The Pajama Game (1957)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Arte Johnson	...	Himself (clip from The Gong Show (1976)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Noble Johnson	...	Native Chief (clip from King Kong (1933)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	James B. Lowe	...	Uncle Tom (clip from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Claudia McNeil	...	Lena Younger (clip from A Raisin in the Sun (1961)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Thomas Mitchell	...	Doc Josiah Boone (clip from Stagecoach (1939)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Jack Mower	...	Mr. Shelby (clip from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Gene Nelson	...	Tom Farnham (clip from Lullaby of Broadway (1951)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Vivien Oakland	...	Mrs. Shelby (clip from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Louise Platt	...	Mrs. Lucy Mallory (clip from Stagecoach (1939)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	S.Z. Sakall	...	Adolph Hubbell (clip from Lullaby of Broadway (1951)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Isabel Sanford	...	Tillie (clip from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	George Siegmann	...	Simon Legree (clip from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Claire Trevor	...	Dallas (clip from Stagecoach (1939)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Lester Vail	...	Bob (clip from Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Directed by

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Raoul Peck

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Written by

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James Baldwin	...	(writings)

Raoul Peck	...	(scenario)

Produced by

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Joëlle Bertossa	...	co-producer (coproduced by)
Rémi Grellety	...	producer (produced by)
Hébert Peck	...	producer (produced by)
Raoul Peck	...	producer (produced by)
Patrick Quinet	...	co-producer (coproduced by)
Audrey Rosenberg	...	consulting producer
Amy Shatsky-Gambrill	...	supervising producer

Music by

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Alexei Aigui

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Cinematography by

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Henry Adebonojo	...	director of photography
Bill Ross IV	...	director of photography (as Bill Ross)
Turner Ross	...	director of photography

Film Editing by

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Alexandra Strauss

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Editorial Department

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Pauline Archange	...	assistant editor
Peter Bernaers	...	colorist
Natalie James	...	assistant editor
Clesca Karim-Daniel	...	assistant editor
Jonathan Liebert	...	digital cinema mastering
Aldo Mulone	...	assistant colorist
Veerle Zeelmaekers	...	colorist

Makeup Department

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Jacen Bowman

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makeup artist

Production Management

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Desirée Jellerette

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production manager

Sound Department

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Dominic Bartolini	...	audio description mixer
Sabrina Calmels	...	assistant sound editor: VF
David Gerain	...	sound recordist
David Gillain	...	re-recording mixer / sound designer
Simon Jamart	...	sound recordist
Valérie Le Docte	...	sound editor
Ivaylo Natzev	...	voiceover recordist
Philippe van Leer	...	foley artist

Camera and Electrical Department

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Nathan Buffaloe	...	key grip
Trevor Cohen	...	digital imaging technician
John Guillen	...	key grip
Matt Radican	...	electrician

Casting Department

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Kinyarda Wright

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casting associate

Other crew

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Prudence Arndt	...	Archive Producer
Marie-Hélène Barbéris	...	senior archivist
Jackie Bazan	...	education consultant / publicist
Clare Chambers	...	project manager
Louise Cousins	...	Creative Director
Ellie Gibbons	...	Acquisitions Manager UK for Altitude
Michael Raisler	...	executive for Cinereach
Karen Shatzkin	...	legal services
Emmanuel Van Melkebeke	...	legal counsel
Bernard Vander Donckt	...	administrateur de production

Thanks

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Nathalie Geoffroy

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Production Companies

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ARTE (in coproduction with)
Independent Lens (in coproduction with)
RTBF (Télévision belge) (in coproduction with)
Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) (in coproduction with)
Shelter Prod (in coproduction with)
Velvet Film

Distributors

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Magnolia Pictures (2016) (United States) (theatrical)
Altitude Film Distribution (2017) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
NonStop Entertainment (2017) (Sweden) (theatrical)
AmaFilms (2017) (Greece) (theatrical)
Cinema Delicatessen (2017) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
Edition Salzgeber (2017) (Germany) (theatrical)
Imovision (2017) (Brazil) (theatrical)
Magic Hour (2018) (Japan) (theatrical)
Sophie Dulac Distribution (2017) (France) (theatrical)
Fivia/Cenex (2017) (Slovenia)
Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2017) (United Arab Emirates) (Middle East, North Africa & Iran)
Madman Entertainment (2017) (Australia)
Midas Filmes (2017) (Portugal)
Yleisradio (YLE) (2018) (Finland) (tv)

Special Effects

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Other Companies

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Liquid Soul Media (marketing and publicity)
Cinereach (funding)
Lakeshore Records (soundtrack)

Storyline

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Plot Summary	In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. Written by Jwelch5742 Plot Summary
Plot Keywords	archive-footage political-radical 1950s riot u.s.-history See All (89) »
Taglines	In "Remember This House" Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished -a radical narration about race in America, through the lives and assassinations of three of his friends: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X. using only the writer's original words. See more »
Genres	Documentary
Parents Guide	View content advisory »
Certification	Australia:M Canada:PG (British Columbia) Germany:12 Greece:K-12 Hong Kong:IIA Ireland:12A Italy:T Japan:G Mexico:B Netherlands:16 New Zealand:M Norway:12 Portugal:M/12 Singapore:NC16 South Korea:15 Spain:12 Sweden:15 Switzerland:16 Taiwan:R-12 United Kingdom:12A United Kingdom:12 (video) United States:PG-13

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Also Known As	Je ne suis pas votre nègre (France) Remember This House (United States) Я вам не негр (Russia) I am not your negro (Finland) Ben Senin Zencin Değilim (Turkey, Turkish title) See more »
Runtime	93 min
Official Sites	Facebook Instagram Official site Official site Official site Official site Twitter
Country	Switzerland France Belgium United States
Language	English French
Color	Color
Aspect Ratio	1.78 : 1 See more »

Did You Know?

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Trivia	The film is based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript of 30 pages for a novel which has never before been released to the public. The film, in a way, "finishes" this work by incorporating other interviews and writings by Baldwin and expanding on the themes through archival footage See more »
Movie Connections	Featured in The Oscars (2017). See more »
Soundtracks	The Ballad of Birmingham See more »
Quotes	James Baldwin: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it has ben faced. History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwize we literally are ciminals. See more »

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