Which 2016 documentary based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson?

The 2016 documentary based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson is I Am Not Your Negro.

Directed by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, the film draws primarily from Remember This House, Baldwin’s unfinished project about the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Baldwin’s words are delivered in English by Samuel L. Jackson, whose measured narration gives the film the feeling of an essay spoken directly to the present.

Rather than presenting a conventional biography, the documentary places Baldwin’s observations about race, identity, film, religion, and American history alongside archival footage and contemporary images. Its title comes from Baldwin’s own writing and deliberately challenges stereotypes embedded in American culture.

The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. It is often confused with Baldwin’s Nigger, a 1968 documentary recording a conversation with Baldwin and Eldridge Cleaver, but the two films are distinct works.