BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
14 Kinolab Clips
Opening Sequence
The famous scene from Gone with the Wind, in which Scarlett O’Hara searches for Dr. Meade among the dead and dying in the Atlanta train yard, segues to Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard’s tirade against Black Americans.
Duration: 00:03:29
Timestamp: 00:00:42
Contributor: Allison Cooper
Kwame Ture
Brother Ture encourages his fellow Black Americans to unite and fight against racism.
Duration: 00:07:04
Timestamp: 00:15:38
Contributor: Allison Cooper
Kwame Ture Speech
Civil Rights leader Kwame Ture (Corey Hawkins) recites a speech at a local rally hosted by the Black Student Union. Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) attends, going in undercover on behalf of the police as Philip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) and Jimmy Creek (Michael Buscemi) listen in. Ture speaks on the need to embrace Blackness and Black beauty, police brutality, opposition to the Vietnam war, and the fight for racial equality.
Duration: 00:06:20
Timestamp: 00:16:00
Contributor: Mahlet Tedla
Too Late to Turn Back Now
After Patrice and her friends are harassed by Patrolman Landers, she and Ron dance at the Red Lantern.
Duration: 00:02:04
Timestamp: 00:24:13
Contributor: Allison Cooper
The Godfather of Soul
Ron teaches Flip to talk like him with the help of the lyrics from James Brown’s Black Power anthem “Say it Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud”.
Duration: 00:03:44
Timestamp: 00:32:26
Contributor: Allison Cooper
They’re Taking Over
Flip, undercover as Ron, meets Walter Breachway, chapter president of the Colorado Springs KKK, as well as members Felix and Ivanhoe. The men discuss their shared hatred of Black Americans.
Duration: 00:02:43
Timestamp: 00:39:20
Contributor: Allison Cooper
Skin in the Game
Ron explains to Flip that going undercover to thwart the KKK is more than ‘just a job’.
Duration: 00:01:25
Timestamp: 00:55:38
Contributor: Allison Cooper
Butter Biscuit
Ron and David Duke share memories of Black figures in their lives.
Duration: 00:02:20
Timestamp: 01:12:58
Contributor: Allison Cooper
Black Power / White Power
As Ron witnesses Flip’s initiation into the KKK, the students of Colorado College’s Black Student Union learn about the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington from an eyewitness.
Duration: 00:09:30
Timestamp: 01:33:10
Contributor: Allison Cooper
Lynching of Jesse Washington Story x Klan Induction Ceremony
Jerome Turner (Harry Belafonte) recounts the lynching of Jesse Washington at a Civil Rights rally as it is cross cut with Philip Zimmerman's (Adam Driver) - posing as a white version of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) - induction into the KKK. Turner describes in detail the murder and we go back and forth between this and David Duke's (Topher Grace) white nationalist speech. All the while, Stallworth is watching the induction ceremony happen from a window.
Duration: 00:09:23
Timestamp: 01:33:15
Contributor: Mahlet Tedla
He Tried to Rape Me
Ron arrives at Patrice’s house to prevent Connie from delivering the bomb, but his attempts are thwarted by fellow police officers.
Duration: 00:02:56
Timestamp: 01:53:09
Contributor: Allison Cooper
Klan vs Ron vs Police
Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) runs to stop Connie Kendrickson (Ashlie Atkinson) from bombing Patrice Dumas's (Laura Harrier) home. Ron gets stopped by the police for catching Connie and unknowingly, Felix kills himself, Ivanhoe, and Walker by pressing the button to the bomb while parked right next to the car.
Duration: 00:02:23
Timestamp: 01:53:43
Contributor: Mahlet Tedla
Did You Ever Get His Name?
Ron reveals his true identity to David Duke.
Duration: 00:02:01
Timestamp: 02:01:57
Contributor: Allison Cooper
Closing Sequence
Ron and Patrice are lured out of Ron’s apartment to witness robed Klansman gathered around a burning cross as the film gives way to footage from the August 2017 white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Duration: 00:05:11
Timestamp: 02:03:56
Contributor: Allison Cooper