Malcolm X

25th Anniversary!

(1992) dir Spike Lee w/Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee [202 min; 35mm]
Spike Lee’s controversial, epic biographic study of Malcolm X follows the legendary activist from his early days of as a good-for-nothing marauding in Harlem and Boston, to his transformative years in jail where he converted to Islam, to his evolution into a public activist, to his polemical split from the Nation of Islam, and eventually to his assassination in 1965.