Amiri Baraka Movies

A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a...

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

James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for...

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...

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...

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by...

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and...

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

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...

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

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...

A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the...

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...

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

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...

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...

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited...

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.