MALCOLM X: ANATOMY OF A REVOLUTION (11:00)
He was a thief, a convict, a minister, a pilgrim — and, at thirty-nine, the most feared voice in America. Ten minutes on how America made Malcolm X, how he remade himself, and who wanted him dead.
An educational documentary using archival photographs and an AI-generated narration voice. Every claim is attributed to published sources. In 2021, two of the three men convicted of the 1965 assassination were exonerated after 55 years.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open: the Audubon Ballroom, 21 February 1965
1:06 Part One — The Boy
2:34 Part Two — Detroit Red
3:26 Part Three — X
4:48 Part Four — The Messenger
6:21 Part Five — The Break
7:51 Part Six — Shabazz
10:17 Closing & credits
SOURCES (selected)
– The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with Alex Haley (Grove Press, 1965)
– Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking, 2011)
– Malcolm X, ‘The Ballot or the Bullet’, Detroit, 3 April 1964
– Malcolm X, letter from Mecca, April 1964; OAAU founding statement, New York, 28 June 1964
– Ossie Davis, eulogy at Faith Temple Church, New York, 27 February 1965
– People of the State of New York v. Aziz and Islam — convictions vacated, New York County Supreme Court, 18 November 2021
PRODUCTION NOTES
Narration is a synthetic (AI) voice. The score is original and was composed procedurally for this film. All photographs are archival or documentary images obtained via Wikimedia Commons under public-domain or Creative Commons licences (PD, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA); the full per-image credit and licence list is here: https://viralzim.com/credits/malcolm-x-image-credits.txt
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