Documentary.

Originally broadcast on the American experience television series on January 12-13, 2004.

Widescreen version presented in a "matted" widescreen format, preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition.

Special feature: Interview with filmmaker Orlando Bagwell.

Director of photography, Michael Chin ; editors, Ed Barteski, Jean-Phillippe Boucicaut ; series editor, Sharon Grimberg ; original music, Camara Kambon.

Interviews: Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, Taylor Branch, Juanita Abernathy, Walter Fauntroy, Roger Wilkins, Harris Wofford ... [et al.].

This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans, a civil rights activist whose words and image are more hotly contested, negotiated and sold than almost anyone else's in American history.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD; Dolby surround stereo.

Closed-captioned.