Allen Ginsberg Movies

  • 1997
    No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

    No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

    No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

    11997HD

    Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary...

    No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
  • 1999
    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

    11999HD

    One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been...

    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
  • 1989
    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

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    Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility...

    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
  • 1993
    Road Scholar

    Road Scholar

    Road Scholar

    81993HD

    Andrei Cordescu, NPR journalist, Romanian immigrant, naturalized American citizen, and newly-licensed driver, sets out on a cross- country road trip....

    Road Scholar
  • 1989
    Growing Up in America

    Growing Up in America

    Growing Up in America

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    Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other '60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his...

    Growing Up in America
  • 1983
    This Song for Jack

    This Song for Jack

    This Song for Jack

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    In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Kerouac Conference, a 25th-anniversary commemoration...

    This Song for Jack
  • 2003
    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    02003HD

    A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA...

    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
  • 1980
    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80

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    Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a...

    Lake Placid '80
  • 2022
    Why Is We Americans?

    Why Is We Americans?

    Why Is We Americans?

    02022HD

    The story focuses on Newark's Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, art and politics.

    Why Is We Americans?
  • 2004
    Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair

    Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair

    Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair

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    John Sinclair first emerged out of his small-town Michigan background to forge a legendary course through the 1960s as a cultural activist, manager...

    Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
  • 1990
    Summer of Love

    Summer of Love

    Summer of Love

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    Produced in collaboration with MICA-TV, Summer of Love is a public service announcement produced for the American Foundation for AIDS Research....

    Summer of Love
  • 2001
    New York in the Fifties

    New York in the Fifties

    New York in the Fifties

    02001HD

    New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot...

    New York in the Fifties
  • 1968
    Chicago

    Chicago

    Chicago

    01968HD

    UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National...

    Chicago
  • 1997
    U2: A Year in Pop

    U2: A Year in Pop

    U2: A Year in Pop

    01997HD

    Documentary about U2's album Pop and following tour.

    U2: A Year in Pop
  • 1967
    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

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    The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental...

    Joan of Arc
  • 1965
    He! Viva Dada

    He! Viva Dada

    He! Viva Dada

    01965HD

    Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings...

    He! Viva Dada
  • 1997
    A Poet from the Lower East Side

    A Poet from the Lower East Side

    A Poet from the Lower East Side

    01997HD

    Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of...

    A Poet from the Lower East Side
  • 1967
    Anatomy of Violence

    Anatomy of Violence

    Anatomy of Violence

    01967HD

    Documentary of the Symposium on the Dialectics of Liberation and the Demystification of Violence, held in London, July 1967, organized by R.D.Laing,...

    Anatomy of Violence
  • 2020
    Symphony Of The Invisible

    Symphony Of The Invisible

    Symphony Of The Invisible

    02020HD

    "Symphony of the Invisible" is a reflection on creation and how through art, poetry and images you can break the limits that have been imposed on...

    Symphony Of The Invisible
  • 1968
    Underground New York

    Underground New York

    Underground New York

    01968HD

    A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

    Underground New York