W. Curtis Montz Film Series: MLK/FBI (PG)
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Jul 18, 2023 1pm
- Tuesday, Jul 18, 2023 7:30pm
Location
F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
71 Public Square
Details
The W. Curtis Montz Film Series celebrates the best in independent, foreign, and documentary films. The Summer 2023 series will begin on July 11 and run every Tuesday through August 29. Each showing will be preceded by the screening of a short film made by a regional filmmaker.
The series features two showings of each film, first at 1 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m. on the same Tuesday. Tickets for matinee films are only $3, while evening films are just $5.
MLK/FBI - PG
A documentary about what a former FBI agent calls the darkest part of their agency's history, the film features recently declassified files to unearth how the agency branded and targeted Martin Luther King Jr. as an enemy of the state in the '60s, at the time when the assassinated reverend was beginning to rise to national fame and influence as a leader of the civil rights movement. 2020, 104 minutes
