Black History Month Film Series: “Malcolm X”

Denzel Washington dominates almost every frame of this electrifying epic that traces the arc of 20th-century America through a single extraordinary life. Washington brings bone-deep feeling and enormous charisma to the story of Malcolm Little, a street hustler whose prison conversion to Islam finds him walking back into the world a free, profoundly changed man named Malcolm X — religious leader, political seer, American martyr. Directed by Spike Lee. 1992, PG-13, 202 min.