Directed by Bayer Mack Country United States Directors Bayer L. Mack, Bayer Mack Distributed by Block Starz Music | Edited by Bayer Mack Language English Running time 1h 45m Editor Bayer L. Mack | |
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Produced by Frances Presley Rice
Bayer Mack
Victor Young
Hal Croasmun
Nanci Grady
Gabriell Debear Paye Release date February 19, 2016 (2016-02-19) (GCUFF)
July 25, 2016 (2016-07-25) (Public Television)
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In the Hour of Chaos is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Bayer Mack. It details the life and various trials of the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. ("Daddy King"), including his violent, poverty-stricken upbringing in rural Georgia, the assassination of his oldest son (civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.), the drowning of his younger son Alfred Daniel Williams King and the shooting death of his wife, Alberta Williams King.
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The film's voice cast uses first-person narration sourced from autobiographies and biographies about Daddy King, family attorney Murray M. Silver and other King relatives and associates.
Synopsis
The film follows "Daddy King"'s rise from an impoverished childhood in the violent backwoods of Stockbridge, Georgia to become patriarch of one of the most famous–and tragedy-plagued–families in American history. Set against a backdrop of sociopolitical intrigue and anarchy spanning three generations of the King family, the film also details major domestic conflicts that have impacted the American public during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Release
In the Hour of Chaos was released on February 19, 2016 as part of a Black History Month event sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival (GCUFF), which included writer/director Bayer Mack's debut film The Czar of Black Hollywood, and premiered on public television on July 25, 2016.