The Real Malcolm X
The Real Malcolm X
Release: 1992-11-18
·Runtime: 60m
Documentary
CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The film intercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, scholars, and writers. CBS documents Malcolm's move from being Elijah Muhammad's deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam: his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be. CBS details his death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm. Maya Angelou, Dick Gregory, and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments. "He was our manhood," eulogized Ossie Davis.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
CBS News Productions
Cast
Malcolm X
Dick Gregory
Quincy Jones
Walter Cronkite
Ossie Davis
J. Edgar Hoover
Robert F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dan Rather
as Self - Narrator / Interviewer
Maya Angelou
Lionel Hampton
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Jacqueline Kennedy
Chuck D
James Farmer
Wesley Snipes
Andrew Young
John F. Kennedy
Mario Van Peebles
Ted Kennedy