I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro
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Directed by	Raoul Peck
Written by	James Baldwin Raoul Peck
Based on	Remember This House by James Baldwin
Produced by	Rémi Grellety Hébert Peck Raoul Peck
Narrated by	Samuel L. Jackson
Edited by	Alexandra Strauss
Music by	Alexei Aigui
Production companies	Velvet Film Artemis Productions Close Up Films
Distributed by	Magnolia Pictures Amazon Studios
Release dates	September 10, 2016 (2016-09-10) (TIFF) February 3, 2017 (2017-02-03) (United States)
Running time	95 minutes[1]
Countries	United States Germany
Language	English
Budget	$1 million[2]
Box office	$9.6 million[1]

I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 German-American documentary film and social critique film essay directed by Raoul Peck,^[3] based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations of American history.^[4] It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards and won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.^[5][6]