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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...
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
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...
The Pact
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"...
Obscene
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...
1 P.M.
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...
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti...
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
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....
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and...
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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.
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
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...
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
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...
Return to Gorée
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by...
Bulworth
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 Motion: Amiri Baraka
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...
Poetry in Motion
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...
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark quickly arrives at its political...
The New-Ark
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...
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
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...
Death of a Prophet
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the...
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben Israel of the Living Theater, the...
Turn Me On
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the...
Nationtime
A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark, the...
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights...
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement