Black Like Me (1964)
- Directed by
- Carl Lerner
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A white journalist darkens his skin to experience life as a Black man in the segregated South. He travels through Louisiana and Mississippi, facing suspicion, hostility, and the daily indignities of Jim Crow.
soberingeye-openinggroundedintrospectiveunnervingsomberrawquietly intense
What happens
Black Like Me is a 1964 American drama film based on the 1961 book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. The journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959 in the Deep South to report on life in the segregated society from the other side of the color line. The film was directed by Carl Lerner and the screenplay was written by Carl and Gerda Lerner. The film stars James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke and Roscoe Lee Browne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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