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Released
2017 · FILM

I Am Not Your Negro

Narrator James Baldwin confronts America’s deep‑seated racism, using his unfinished manuscript to demand that the nation finally reckon with its violent past before history repeats itself.

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Runtime
93 min
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Synopsis

Drawing from the text of James Baldwin's unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck crafts a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alexandra StraussShot by Henry AdebonojoScored by Alexei Aigui

Box Office

2017 · Box office

Produced on a $1.0M budget

Production budget

$1.0M

Also known as

  • I am not your Negro - Das schwarze Amerika der Sechzigerde
  • James Baldwin: I Am Not Your Negrode
  • No soy tu negroes
  • Je ne suis pas votre nègrefr

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