Originally broadcast on television Jan. 19, 2001.

Special feature: Interview with filmmaker Orlando Bagwell.

Director of photography, Michael Chin ; editors, Ed Barteski, Jean-Phillippe Boucicaut ; series editor, Sharon Grimberg ; original music, Camara Kambon.

Interviews with: Andrew Young, Walter Fauntroy, Roger Wilkins, Harris Wofford.

This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfloded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans, a civil rights activist whose words and image are more hotly contested, negotiated and sold than almost anyone else's in American history.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.

Closed-captioned.