Baldwin's Nigger (1968)

Name: Baldwin's Nigger
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-01-21T17:18:13+01:00
Cast: James Baldwin, Dick Gregory

Documentary | 46 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 46 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Horace Ové

Stars: James Baldwin and Dick Gregory

IMDb score: 7,5 (156)

Releasedate: 12 July 1968

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Baldwin's Nigger plot

In this black-and-white, cinéma vérité documentary, writer James Baldwin and comedian/activist Dick Gregory engage in passionate conversation with a predominantly black British audience at London's West Indian Student Center. The film shows something that was exceptional for the time: an uncensored conversation about the black experience, as if there were no white people present. In this candid, almost intimate public conversation, many themes are discussed in the US and UK. Baldwin's vision of what it means to be black in America is illustrated by the answer he gave a white European who asks about his origin, but is not satisfied with the answer: "I was once Baldwin's Nigger". A time capsule that is still relevant.