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10 Best Movies Like MLK/FBI

If you loved MLK/FBI, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

2013★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to MLK/FBI for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democrati...

#2
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

2017★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to MLK/FBI for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

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

#3
Risk

Risk

2017★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to MLK/FBI for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and...

#4
My Mom Jayne

My Mom Jayne

2025★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to MLK/FBI for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayn...

#5
Maria by Callas

Maria by Callas

2017★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to MLK/FBI for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose ...

#6
McQueen

McQueen

2018★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to MLK/FBI for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an...

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