Cast of
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

About Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s. From Selma to Charlottesville, we also see how modern activists use today's technology to continue fighting injustice today.

Full Cast of Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Martin Agronsky
plays Self (archive footage)

Joseph Boyce
plays Self

Taylor Branch
plays Self

David Brinkley
plays Self (archive footage)

Tom Brokaw
plays Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. He was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News...

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Hodding Carter III
plays Self

Courtland Cox
plays Self

Walter Cronkite
plays Self (archive footage)

Virgil Dominic
plays Self (archive footage)

James Doyle
plays Self (archive footage)

Benjamin Fine
plays Self (archive footage)

David Garrow
plays Self

Dorothy Butler Gilliam
plays Herself (as Dorothy Gilliam)

Amy Goodman
plays Herself

Aram Goudsouzian

Ernest Green
plays Himself

Bryant Gumbel
plays Himself

Nikole Hannah-Jones
plays Herself

Nikole Hannah-Jones as Herself

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights in the United Stat...

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John Hart
plays Himself (archive footage)

Chris Hayes
plays Himself

Lester Holt
plays Narrator

Jesse Jackson
plays Himself

Al Sharpton
plays Self


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