This portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. is not a sentimental tribute to a fallen leader. It is the biography of a movement, from the Montgomery bus boycott to the assassin’s bullet. Nothing is contrived and no narrator imparts his comments. Newsreel and television footage recall the civil rights campaigns as they actually happened. The film is history; it is also art. This is a film that both touches those who lived through the civil rights struggles, and others learning from and about this time in US history.