Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:PBS
Cast & Crew
J
John Jones
as Martin
S
Sheila Rohan
as Rosa Parks
J
James E. Murphy
as The Assassin
R
Rael Lamb
Choreographer
M
Mario Sprouse
Music Coordinator
Martin
1 hrDocumentary
Plot
This documentary film imaginatively captured the ballet Martin, a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. produced and scored by Gordon Parks. The PBS dance film includes an introduction narrated by Parks and accompanied by a montage of his photographs from the period. The ballet was choreographed by Rael Lamb, with John Jones playing the role of Dr. King, and Sheila Rohan as Rosa Parks. It proceeds in five acts, corresponding to significant moments in Dr. King’s life—the bus boycott, march on Selma, his confinement in a Birmingham jail, his assassination, and his funeral.
