Amiri Baraka Filmes
- 1998
Bulworth
Bulworth6.31998HD
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by...
- 1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket1.51989HD
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...
- 2007
Return to Gorée
Return to Gorée92007HD
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...
- 1970
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark01970HD
A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark, the...
- 2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes02005HD
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...
- 1981
Death of a Prophet
Death of a Prophet4.31981HD
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...
- 2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place02007HD
Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
- 1978
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement01978HD
This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights...
- 2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture02008HD
The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the...
- 2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow6.42006HD
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...
- 1971
A Fable
A Fable11971HD
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...
- 1982
Poetry in Motion
Poetry in Motion71982HD
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...
- 2007
Turn Me On
Turn Me On02007HD
Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben Israel of the Living Theater, the...
- 1970
The Dutchman
The Dutchman01970HD
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...
- 1972
Nationtime
Nationtime01972HD
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the...
- 1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
I Heard It Through the Grapevine01982HD
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and...
- 1971
1 P.M.
1 P.M.5.81971HD
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...
- 2008
Obscene
Obscene52008HD
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"...
- 1966
Dutchman
Dutchman4.61966HD
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for...
- 1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit5.21997HD
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...