If You Didn't Watch These MLK Movies As A Kid Your Childhood Was Lost

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In 1999, two movies came out that would change the game of in-class movie watching forever.

On MLK day (or any other Black history day), you better believe Our Friend, Martin is getting played in somebody’s classroom.

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The movie follows an academically struggling kid who goes back in time to relive events in Martin Luther King Jr.‘s life. He learns more about MLK’s philosophy and the civil rights movement, thus being transformed in the process.

Exciting right?!

For those who’ve watched this movie a hundred times, maybe not.

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But with a bumping soundtrack, and a voiceover cast including Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Samuel L. Jackson, this was a breath of fresh air in a work-filled week.

Swipe through to find out what other movie wore out the VHS player on MLK day!

Before Jurnee Smollett-Bell was dodging slave catchers in Underground, she was hanging with Dr. King as an 11-year-old girl in Selma, Lord, Selma.

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Once again, Dr. King is seen through the eyes of a kid and of course, many lessons are to be learned.

Add in some great singing moments and an emotional depiction of the Selma march attacks, and you have a MLK story that’ll have any classroom in their feelings.

Here’s to remembering. Happy MLK Day!