Amiri Baraka Movies

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...

This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights...

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...

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

A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark, the...

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

Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark quickly arrives at its political...

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...

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

A suite of rarely seen, unreleased films by the poet, activist, and scholar Amiri Baraka.

A short, formerly missing document of Amiri’s time in the Bay Area working with the Black Panthers and San Francisco State University’s...

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...