Amiri Baraka Movies
- 1987
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper01987HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 1969
The New-Ark
The New-Ark01969HD
Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark quickly arrives at its political...
- 2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet82005HD
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...
- 2006
Poets at the Living Theater
Poets at the Living Theater02006HD
With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Living Theater, 1958.
- 1966
Cellar Vigil
Cellar Vigil01966HD
A suite of rarely seen, unreleased films by the poet, activist, and scholar Amiri Baraka.
- 1967
Black Spring
Black Spring01967HD
A short, formerly missing document of Amiri’s time in the Bay Area working with the Black Panthers and San Francisco State University’s...
- 1983
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
In Motion: Amiri Baraka01983HD
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...