Who Was Michael X?
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Who Was Michael X?
Who’s Michael X? A fascinating documentary series investigating Michael ‘X’ Abdul Malik who became Britain’s preeminent Black Power leader of his age, but yet has been forgotten to the folds of time. Malik participated in seminal moments in the black British experience. A friend to the highest and l...
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Requiem for an Illusion
After an audacious escape attempt to Brazil via the Amazon jungle, Michael is imprisoned once more and held on charges of murder. Found guilty, he exh...
From the Dead Level
Michael is back in his home country. Escaping the looming court case for assault in the UK, he relocates to Trinidad with his family, setting up home...
The Black House
Michael is released after serving a year in prison for hate speech. Undaunted, he returns to his activism, this time creating the Black House on Hollo...
Black Power
Black Power comes to the UK in the form of Stokeley Carmichael. He speaks at the Dialectics of Liberation conference with Michael on stage beside him....
Blood of an Englishman
It’s the swinging sixties and Michael X has risen to national fame as an outspoken and radical black leader. He moves between worlds as a hustler, act...
Malcolm X
It’s 1965 and Michael is searching for a higher meaning to life. In London he meets the man who will change his life forever, Malcolm X. They travel t...
Mother Country
Making a home in the slums of Notting Hill, Michael and others of the Windrush generation find that instead of being welcomed to the UK as fellow Brit...
Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?
Born in the midst of empire, Michael grows up conflicted, raised by a mother indoctrinated to loath her own skin colour. We examine this identity cris...
Introducing Who Was Michael X?
Who was Michael X? A fascinating documentary series investigating Michael ‘X’ Abdul Malik who became Britain’s most famous Black Power leader of his a...