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Directed by | Raoul Peck |
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Based on | Remember This House by James Baldwin |
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Narrated by | Samuel L. Jackson |
Edited by | Alexandra Strauss |
Music by | Alexei Aigui |
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Running time | 95 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $1 million[2] |
Box office | $9.6 million[1] |
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film and social critique film essay directed by Raoul Peck,[3] based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations of American history.[4] It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards and won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.[5][6]