Sam Pollard’s new documentary, “MLK/FBI,” lays out a detailed account of the racially-fueled FBI surveillance that hounded Dr. Martin Luther King’s activism throughout the 1950s and ’60s. Pollard worried that by shinning a light on the salacious material and the FBI’s attempts to discredit Dr. King might just be helping the FBI’s cause, but he felt a responsibility to tell the story nonetheless.
“Absolutely, we thought about it,” Pollard said during TheWrap’s virtual studio for the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. After repeatedly talking it over with producer Benjamin Hedin, the two were compelled to press forward.
“Here we are, almost 40, 50 years later and we just thought it was important to document this very complicated and densely packed story about how King was constantly being harassed and surveilled by J.
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