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Martin Luther King Jr.

Actor · 86 credits · 15 in highly-rated films

Best known for O.J.: Made in America (2016)

Frequent collaborators: Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson

Best Martin Luther King Jr. movies by genre

Movies (86 total, ranked by score)

  1. O.J.: Made in America

    2016 · ★ 8.4 (263 votes)

    Documentary, Crime, History

    1

  2. I Am Not Your Negro

    2017 · ★ 7.7 (530 votes)

    Documentary

    2

  3. The Corporation

    2003 · ★ 7.6 (271 votes)

    Documentary

    3

  4. Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

    2022 · ★ 8.0 (12 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    2005 · ★ 7.8 (146 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    5

  6. The House I Live In

    2012 · ★ 7.5 (77 votes)

    Documentary

    6

  7. Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley

    2024 · ★ 7.4 (57 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    7

  8. MLK/FBI

    2020 · ★ 6.9 (20 votes)

    Documentary

    8

  9. The War at Home

    1979 · ★ 7.2 (6 votes)

    Documentary, War

    9

  10. Speeches That Shook the World

    2013

    History, Documentary

    10

  11. Becoming King

    2024

    Documentary

    11

  12. Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook

    2019 · ★ 8.5 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    12

  13. Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening

    2018 · ★ 7.8 (8 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    13

  14. Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream

    2022 · ★ 8.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    14

  15. The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

    2020 · ★ 7.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

    2007 · ★ 7.0 (7 votes)

    Documentary

    16

  17. Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man

    2018 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, History

    17

  18. Integration Report 1

    1960 · ★ 7.7 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    18

  19. I Am MLK Jr.

    2018 · ★ 8.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    19

  20. August 28: A Day in the Life of a People

    2017

    History, Documentary

    20

  21. Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

    1973 · ★ 9.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    21

  22. Naqoyqatsi

    2002 · ★ 6.1 (155 votes)

    Documentary

    22

  23. King in the Wilderness

    2018 · ★ 6.9 (21 votes)

    Documentary

    23

  24. A History of the World According to Getty Images

    2022 · ★ 6.5 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    24

  25. Citizen King

    2004 · ★ 7.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    25

  26. Mike Wallace Is Here

    2019 · ★ 6.5 (12 votes)

    Documentary

    26

  27. Disasters of the Century

    1985 · ★ 8.5 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    27

  28. Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

    2013 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    28

  29. Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes

    2016 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    29

  30. Blue Eyed

    1996 · ★ 6.9 (12 votes)

    Documentary

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 28, 2026.