Amiri Baraka

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid ’60s, is told through interviews recorded in the ...

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world’s living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, ...

A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like “Tropic of Cancer” ...

The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the ...

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 ...

Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben Israel of the Living Theater, the ...

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Living Theater, 1958.

An exploration into the life and art of the renowned author of “Last Exit To Brooklyn” and “Requiem For A Dream.” Hubert ...

A gritty, provocative true-life story of three friends from the ‘hood, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, who made a pact in ...

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, ...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. “All the Notes” captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this ...

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by ...

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 ...

James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling ...

One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. ...

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 in ...

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and ...

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 ...