If you're looking for a movie related to Martin Luther King Day, here's one you probably never heard of. "No Way Out" was released in 1950 and is the first film starring Sidney Poitier. He plays a new doctor at a hospital assigned to the emergency room. Two White criminal brothers are brought into the ER after a shootout. One dies and the surviving brother blames the Poitier character, although he had correctly diagnosed that the dead brother was dying from a brain tumor. It's rather amazing that the film was released by a major studio in 1950 when the film could not be played in the Jim Crow south of that era and probably would have been rejected by theater owners in many areas outside the south. You can see the film - free on YouTube - at the link below. (Caution: Racist language)
Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gklUlDEf9uM.
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