King in the Wilderness – FREE Documentary

Join us in Three Rivers for a FREE screening of the 2018 documentary King in the Wilderness at the historic Riviera Theatre!

In such a time as this, we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King and we challenge ourselves to his radical vision of the Beloved Community—a vision that directly addresses the “triple-prong sickness that has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning … racism, excessive materialism, and militarism.”

From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil-rights leader’s character, showing him to be a man with an unshakeable commitment to peaceful protest in the face of an increasingly unstable country. Illuminating and poignant, the documentary reveals a conflicted leader whose successes were punctuated in his final years by an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum—whether the Black Power movement, who saw his nonviolence as weakness, or President Lyndon B. Johnson, who viewed his anti-Vietnam War speeches as irresponsible. With compassion and clarity, King in the Wilderness unearths a stirring new perspective into Dr. King’s character, his radical doctrine of nonviolence, and his internal philosophical struggles prior to his death, inviting a sense of penetrating intimacy and insight into one of the most profound thinkers of our time.