Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

  • Title: Amiri Baraka
  • Popularity: 1.637
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1934-10-07
  • Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
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  • Also Known As: Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka, LeRoy Jones-Baraka, Ameer Baraka
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Amiri Baraka Movies

  • 1997
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    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

    5.2 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 2006
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    The Pact

    The Pact

    1 2006 HD

    A gritty, provocative true-life story of three friends from the 'hood, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, who made a pact in high school...

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  • 2008
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    Obscene

    Obscene

    5 2008 HD

    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"...

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  • 1971
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    1 P.M.

    1 P.M.

    5.8 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 2006
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    Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

    Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

    6.4 2006 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

    Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

    5 2009 HD

    The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti...

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  • 1979
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    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

    6.5 1979 HD

    After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City....

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  • 1982
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    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    1 1982 HD

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

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  • 2024
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    Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

    Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

    1 2024 HD

    The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

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  • 2005
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    Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

    Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

    1 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    1 2007 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Return to Gorée

    Return to Gorée

    9 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 1998
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    Bulworth

    Bulworth

    6.3 1998 HD

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

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  • 1983
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    In Motion: Amiri Baraka

    In Motion: Amiri Baraka

    1 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Poetry in Motion

    Poetry in Motion

    7 1982 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

    Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

    8 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    The New-Ark

    The New-Ark

    1 1969 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

    Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

    1 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    Death of a Prophet

    Death of a Prophet

    4.3 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    1.5 1989 HD

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

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  • 2008
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    New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture

    New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture

    1 2008 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Turn Me On

    Turn Me On

    1 2007 HD

    Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben Israel of the Living Theater, the...

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  • 1972
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    Nationtime

    Nationtime

    1 1972 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    Black Journal: 23; New-Ark

    Black Journal: 23; New-Ark

    1 1970 HD

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

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  • 1978
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    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

    1 1978 HD

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

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  • 1966
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    Dutchman

    Dutchman

    4.6 1966 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Dutchman

    The Dutchman

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1971
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    A Fable

    A Fable

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    A Fable

    A Fable

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1972
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    Nationtime

    Nationtime

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1969
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    The New-Ark

    The New-Ark

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1969
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    The New-Ark

    The New-Ark

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1973
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    Medea

    Medea

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1966
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    Cellar Vigil

    Cellar Vigil

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    Black Spring

    Black Spring

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1994
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    ER

    ER

    7.812 1994 HD

    ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened...

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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