The Real Malcolm X

The Real Malcolm X (1992)

Documentary

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The film intercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, scholars, and writers. CBS documents Malcolm's move from being Elijah Muhammad's deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam: his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be. CBS details his death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm. Maya Angelou, Dick Gregory, and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments. "He was our manhood," eulogized Ossie Davis.

Director: Brett Alexander

Casts

	Dan Rather as Self - Narrator / Interviewer
	Maya Angelou as
	Chuck D as
	James Farmer as
	Dick Gregory as
	Lionel Hampton as
	Clarence Jones as
	Quincy Jones as
	Betty Shabazz as
	Wesley Snipes as
	Mario Van Peebles as
	Malcolm-Jamal Warner as
	Keenen Ivory Wayans as
	Andrew Young as
	Walter Cronkite as
	Ossie Davis as
	J. Edgar Hoover as
	John F. Kennedy as
	Robert F. Kennedy as
	Ted Kennedy as
	Martin Luther King Jr. as
	Malcolm X as
	Elijah Muhammad as
	Jacqueline Kennedy as

Crew