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1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit5.2 1997 HD
This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Gregory Corso
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2006
The Pact
The Pact0 2006 HD
A gritty, provocative true-life story of three friends from the 'hood, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, who made a pact in high school...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Bill Cosby
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2008
Obscene
Obscene5 2008 HD
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch"...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Barney Rosset
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1971
1 P.M.
1 P.M.5.8 1971 HD
Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard
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2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow6.4 2006 HD
An exploration into the life and art of the renowned author of "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and "Requiem For A Dream." Hubert Selby Jr., a self-described...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Hubert Selby Jr.
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2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder5 2009 HD
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds6.5 1979 HD
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City....
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Allen Ginsberg
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1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
I Heard It Through the Grapevine0 1982 HD
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: James Baldwin
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2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri0 2024 HD
The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Amiri Baraka
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2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes0 2005 HD
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Cecil Taylor
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2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place0 2007 HD
Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ammiel Alcalay
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2007
Return to Gorée
Return to Gorée9 2007 HD
Because jazz is the miraculous product of the horror of slavery, Youssou N'Dour returned to the slave route and the music they created, in search of...
Genre: Music
Cast: Youssou N'Dour
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1998
Bulworth
Bulworth6.3 1998 HD
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Warren Beatty
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1983
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
In Motion: Amiri Baraka0 1983 HD
This video portrait, filmed in the days leading up to Amiri Baraka’s appeal of his 90-day sentence for resisting arrest following an argument...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Amiri Baraka
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1982
Poetry in Motion
Poetry in Motion7 1982 HD
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Charles Bukowski
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2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet8 2005 HD
Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Sun Ra
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1969
The New-Ark
The New-Ark0 1969 HD
Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark quickly arrives at its political...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Amiri Baraka
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1987
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper0 1987 HD
One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. Clair...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Amiri Baraka
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1981
Death of a Prophet
Death of a Prophet4.3 1981 HD
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Morgan Freeman
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1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket1.5 1989 HD
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: James Baldwin
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2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture0 2008 HD
The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Sam Anderson
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2007
Turn Me On
Turn Me On0 2007 HD
Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben Israel of the Living Theater, the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jane Birkin
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1972
Nationtime
Nationtime0 1972 HD
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Sidney Poitier
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1970
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark0 1970 HD
A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark, the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Kenneth A. Gibson
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1978
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement0 1978 HD
This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Amiri Baraka
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1966
Dutchman
Dutchman4.6 1966 HD
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Shirley Knight
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1970
The Dutchman
The Dutchman0 1970 HD
Set on a New York subway, The Dutchman centers on an encounter between a well-to-do Black man and an enchanting white woman who match wits in a...
Genre: Thriller
Cast: André Holland
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1971
A Fable
A Fable1 1971 HD
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Al Freeman Jr.
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1971
A Fable
A Fable1 1971 HD
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Al Freeman Jr.
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1972
Nationtime
Nationtime0 1972 HD
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Sidney Poitier
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1969
The New-Ark
The New-Ark0 1969 HD
Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark quickly arrives at its political...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Amiri Baraka
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1969
The New-Ark
The New-Ark0 1969 HD
Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark quickly arrives at its political...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Amiri Baraka
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1973
Medea
Medea0 1973 HD
Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited...
Genre: Documentary
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1966
Cellar Vigil
Cellar Vigil0 1966 HD
A suite of rarely seen, unreleased films by the poet, activist, and scholar Amiri Baraka.
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1967
Black Spring
Black Spring0 1967 HD
A short, formerly missing document of Amiri’s time in the Bay Area working with the Black Panthers and San Francisco State University’s...
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