. >> rose: we conclude with raoul peck, the director with the new documentary about james baldwin. >> ten years ago, i decided to make this film because i felt that the world around me was changing. somehow we got lazy, and after the end of the civil rights movement, you know, things that we have monument, black history month, martin luther king day, as if everything was now perfect, and a new generation has started to come out, and i felt it was time that the words of james baldwin had to come back on the front line. >> rose: the u.s. in iran, the super bowl, and james baldwin, when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin tonight with iran. friday morning the trump administration announced new sanctions against iran. the move comes in response to the test firing from an iranian ballistic missile earlier in the week. the sanctions target

that's why i was very proud to be able to put "directed by raoul peck" but "written by james baldwin,use he wrote every single word in the film. i did not add anything, i deconstructed but i didn't wrote it. >> what people have to do is try to find out in their own hearts why it was necessary to have a figger in the first place. i'm not a nigger. i'm a man. if you think i'm a nigger, means you need it. >> brown: in his film, though, peck has done what baldwin, who died in 1987, could not: connect his time to ours-- through images of ferguson, trayvon martin, and others. >> when i started ten years ago to work on this project, it was because i already felt that something was wrong. it was for us, you know, scary because it was actually something we were working on. and now we have visual of that, images. and it made the film more urgent for us, but it did not really change the origin of all the needs for this movie and the need to go back to baldwin. because baldwin gave us the fundamentals. >> i am tired. i don't know how it will come agent about. i know no matter how it comes about,

charlie: i am pleased to have director raoul peck at the table for the first time. welcome. this begin? raoul: it began when i read james baldwin for the first time when i was about 17. it changed my life. suddenly, i had an author through which i could understand where i was, who i was and it gave me an explanation to a lot of things that i was seeing, but could not put a name on them. and since that time, i read all of baldwin, and he had been a constant presence in my life. 10 years ago, i decided to make this film because i felt that the world around me was changing . somehow we got lazy and after the end of the civil rights avement, you know, we had monument, we have black history month, martin luther king as ifday, -- martin luther king day, as if everything is now perfect. and the new generation started to come out. i felt it was time that the words of james baldwin had to come back on the front line. charlie: have there been no major film about him? there was one film, which was more of the doubt a. i did not want to make a biography film. i wanted to find a way to pu

america" won for best documentary, beating out ava duvernay's "13th" about mass incarceration and raoul peck's "i am not your negro" about jim's baldwin, and other documentaries. and awards ceremony host jimmy kimmel critiqued president trump throughout the night, including during his opening set. >> we are at the oscars, the academy awards hewitt you are nominated. you got to come here to your families are nominated. some of you will get to come up and give a speech that the president of the united states capstweet about in all during his 5:00 a.m. bowel movement tomorrow. amy: as of now, president trump has not yet tweeted about the oscars. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i am amy goodman. am juan gonzalez. welcome to our viewers around the country and around the world. we turn now to look at the trump administration and press freedom. on the white house took the friday, unprecedented act of barring the new york times, cnn, politico, the los angeles times, the bbc and several other news , organizations from an off-camer

coming up, filmmaker raoul peck