Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Ginsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

  • Title: Allen Ginsberg
  • Popularity: 3.666
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1926-06-03
  • Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • Homepage: http://allenginsberg.org/
  • Also Known As: Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg Movies

  • 2021
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    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground

    6.8 2021 HD

    Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd...

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  • 1966
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    Chappaqua

    Chappaqua

    6.9 1966 HD

    Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in...

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  • 1967
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    Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back

    Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back

    7.416 1967 HD

    In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated...

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  • 2002
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    American Magus

    American Magus

    1 2002 HD

    A documentary about the brilliant and versatile cult figure Harry Smith (1923-1991) – compiler of a famous three-part folk album, film-maker,...

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  • 1981
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    Greetings from Washington, D.C.

    Greetings from Washington, D.C.

    1 1981 HD

    A short documentary about the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on Sunday, October 14th 1979.

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  • 1990
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    Berkeley in the Sixties

    Berkeley in the Sixties

    5.6 1990 HD

    A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.

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  • 2023
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    Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

    Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

    6.8 2023 HD

    The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an...

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  • 2010
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    Howl

    Howl

    6.534 2010 HD

    It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads:...

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  • 1959
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    Pull My Daisy

    Pull My Daisy

    6 1959 HD

    Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose...

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  • 1998
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    Brakhage

    Brakhage

    7 1998 HD

    BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic...

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  • 2022
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    Why Is We Americans?

    Why Is We Americans?

    1 2022 HD

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

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  • 2018
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    Take Your Pills

    Take Your Pills

    6.567 2018 HD

    In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?

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  • 1973
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    We Can't Go Home Again

    We Can't Go Home Again

    6.3 1973 HD

    Nicholas Ray plays himself, acting as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students at Binghamton. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

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  • 1968
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    A.G.

    A.G.

    1 1968 HD

    Experimental film by Ugo Nespolo.

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  • 1967
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    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

    2.8 1967 HD

    Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different...

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  • 2008
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    Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

    Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

    6.2 2008 HD

    Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell....

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  • 1999
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    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

    1 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

    Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

    5.5 2011 HD

    CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.S. in 1970. Trungpa...

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  • 2012
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    Norman Mailer: The American

    Norman Mailer: The American

    7 2012 HD

    A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes...

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  • 1994
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    ChickenHawk

    ChickenHawk

    5.9 1994 HD

    Members of the controversial group NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) discuss why their organization supports "boys and men who have or...

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  • 1969
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    Me and My Brother

    Me and My Brother

    6.4 1969 HD

    Julius Orlovsky, after spending years in a New York mental hospital, emerges catatonic and must rely on his brother Peter, who lives with poet Allen...

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  • 1989
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    Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center

    Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center

    1 1989 HD

    Izzy Young was the guru of American folk music. In this documentary covering his legendary Folklore Center in New York Izzy meets with friends and...

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  • 1965
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    Wholly Communion

    Wholly Communion

    6.1 1965 HD

    A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale...

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  • 1974
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    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    1 1974 HD

    Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

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  • 1968
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    Yippie

    Yippie

    5.1 1968 HD

    The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary group...

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  • 1986
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    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    8 1986 HD

    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

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  • 1999
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    The Source

    The Source

    5.1 1999 HD

    Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in...

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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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  • 1986
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    Autumn Ritual

    Autumn Ritual

    8.8 1986 HD

    Artists, Philosophers, Musicians, Politicians and more offer their thoughts on Pro Football, in this 1986 film produced by NFL Films.

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  • 1997
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    A Poet from the Lower East Side

    A Poet from the Lower East Side

    1 1997 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    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

    1 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    Silence = Death

    Silence = Death

    5.6 1990 HD

    AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.

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  • 2014
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    Great Poets: In Their Own Words

    Great Poets: In Their Own Words

    1 2014 HD

    A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

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  • 2008
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    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10

    6 2008 HD

    Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...

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  • 1997
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    Happy Birthday to John

    Happy Birthday to John

    4.8 1997 HD

    On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the...

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  • 2001
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    New York in the Fifties

    New York in the Fifties

    1 2001 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Renaldo and Clara

    Renaldo and Clara

    8.1 1978 HD

    Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring appearances and performances by Ronee...

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  • 2002
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    The Cockettes

    The Cockettes

    6.7 2002 HD

    Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.

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  • 1980
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    La marche gaie

    La marche gaie

    4.3 1980 HD

    A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.

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  • 1971
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    Johnny Minotaur

    Johnny Minotaur

    5 1971 HD

    Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles...

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  • 1967
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    Ah, Sunflower

    Ah, Sunflower

    1 1967 HD

    Allen Ginsberg in Britain.

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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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  • 1966
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    Galaxie

    Galaxie

    1 1966 HD

    In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

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  • 1967
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    Be-In

    Be-In

    5 1967 HD

    Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people imbued with peace, love and euphoria....

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  • 1973
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    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    7.7 1973 HD

    Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

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  • 2005
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    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    7.68 2005 HD

    A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

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  • 1967
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    Herostratus

    Herostratus

    6.2 1967 HD

    When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly...

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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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  • 2012
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    The Beat Hotel

    The Beat Hotel

    4.5 2012 HD

    The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963,...

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  • 1973
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    Pickup's Tricks

    Pickup's Tricks

    1 1973 HD

    Pickup's Tricks is a beat documentary of Hibiscus and the Cockettes, who were pioneers of San Francisco’s underground queer theater in the...

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  • 2014
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    Beat Generation

    Beat Generation

    9.2 2014 HD

    Tells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs that gave birth to the Beat...

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  • 1976
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    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    7 1976 HD

    Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

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  • 1971
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    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

    5.3 1971 HD

    The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous U.S....

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  • 1985
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    All Star Video

    All Star Video

    6.5 1985 HD

    A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

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  • 1984
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    Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

    Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

    8.1 1984 HD

    In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the...

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  • 1984
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    Burroughs: The Movie

    Burroughs: The Movie

    7.2 1984 HD

    An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion...

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  • 1976
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    Une semaine dans la vie de camarades

    Une semaine dans la vie de camarades

    1 1976 HD

    A road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal....

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  • 1969
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    The Fall

    The Fall

    7 1969 HD

    "The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a...

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  • 2024
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    A Supermarket in Californi

    A Supermarket in Californi

    1 2024 HD

    Carved to the beat verses of Allen Ginsberg and his eponymous poem, A Supermarket in California paints the most surreal contours of an America...

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  • 1964
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    Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes

    Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes

    1 1964 HD

    This fascinating film documents the U.S. premiere production of Originale, a Happening by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Filmed at the "2nd...

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  • 2008
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    Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

    Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

    1 2008 HD

    LSD Guru Tim Leary teaches us all to die by dying himself in what he calls his "custom death". This documentary deals with Mr. Leary's last days, all...

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  • 2007
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    The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    1 2007 HD

    The Old, Weird America tracks the history of the Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of 78 records from rural Americana to...

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  • 2007
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    Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

    Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

    7 2007 HD

    5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16 "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min "Beatles Electronique" USA...

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  • 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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  • 2021
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    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    7.6 2021 HD

    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

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  • 1978
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    Thot-Fal'N

    Thot-Fal'N

    5.4 1978 HD

    This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and...

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  • 1980
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    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80

    8 1980 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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  • 2006
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    Dylan Speaks 1965

    Dylan Speaks 1965

    1 2006 HD

    The legendary press conference in San Fransisco at KQED studios on Dec. 3rd 1965. This was a pivotal year in Bob Dylan's career. In the early part...

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  • 1984
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    Before Stonewall

    Before Stonewall

    6.8 1984 HD

    New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back...

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  • 1994
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    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    5.9 1994 HD

    Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political...

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  • 1980
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    No. 18: Mahagonny

    No. 18: Mahagonny

    5.5 1980 HD

    Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

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  • 1968
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    Underground New York

    Underground New York

    1 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

    The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

    1 2014 HD

    Documentary about western popular music concerts as bearer tendencies of democracy and freedom in the Czechoslovak area in period 1965 - 1990. Unique...

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  • 2017
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    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    4 2017 HD

    The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own...

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  • 1965
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    He! Viva Dada

    He! Viva Dada

    1 1965 HD

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

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  • 2015
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    Don't Blink - Robert Frank

    Don't Blink - Robert Frank

    7 2015 HD

    The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount...

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  • 2003
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    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    1 2003 HD

    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...

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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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  • 1973
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    Ciao! Manhattan

    Ciao! Manhattan

    5.6 1973 HD

    Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie...

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  • 1983
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    This Song for Jack

    This Song for Jack

    6 1983 HD

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

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  • 1989
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    Heavy Petting

    Heavy Petting

    5.6 1989 HD

    Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie...

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  • 1985
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    It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen

    It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen

    7.5 1985 HD

    An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer.

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  • 2019
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    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

    7.104 2019 HD

    Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan...

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  • 1964
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    Couch

    Couch

    6.2 1964 HD

    The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to...

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  • 1994
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    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert

    5.5 1994 HD

    Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of...

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  • 1967
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    Hare Krishna

    Hare Krishna

    5 1967 HD

    A short film from Jonas Mekas depicting an afternoon in New York of people joining in singing "Hare Hare"

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  • 1989
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    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

    5 1989 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    1 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Growing Up in America

    Growing Up in America

    10 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    8 1965 HD

    The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light,...

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  • 1965
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    Allan for Allan

    Allan for Allan

    1 1965 HD

    A short film by underground filmmaker Barbara Rubin.

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  • 2017
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    How the Beatles Changed the World

    How the Beatles Changed the World

    7.2 2017 HD

    The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical revolution ignited by the coming of the Beatles. Tracing the impact that these...

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  • 1961
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    Guns of the Trees

    Guns of the Trees

    7.4 1961 HD

    A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth...

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  • 2004
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    Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair

    Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair

    1 2004 HD

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

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  • 1990
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    Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

    Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

    6.5 1990 HD

    This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to...

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  • 2013
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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.4 2013 HD

    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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  • 1993
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    Road Scholar

    Road Scholar

    8 1993 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    Uncle Howard

    Uncle Howard

    6.5 2017 HD

    When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on...

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  • 1977
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    Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

    Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

    1 1977 HD

    A tribute concert honoring the life of legendary folksinger Phil Ochs recorded at the Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in 1976.

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  • 2010
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    William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

    William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

    6.6 2010 HD

    A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.

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  • 2000
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    Condo Painting

    Condo Painting

    1 2000 HD

    John McNaughton's spotlight on George Condo and his art. The film, which follows the progress of Condo's large-scale oil painting Big Red over the...

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  • 1990
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    Summer of Love

    Summer of Love

    1 1990 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Symphony Of The Invisible

    Symphony Of The Invisible

    1 2020 HD

    "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...

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  • 2017
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    The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

    The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

    6.8 2017 HD

    Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she...

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  • 1967
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    Anatomy of Violence

    Anatomy of Violence

    1 1967 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Ballad of the Skeletons

    Ballad of the Skeletons

    6 1997 HD

    A close-up of Allen Ginsberg reciting his “skeletons” poem is bluescreened and dissolved against archival film and video clips, and...

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  • 2007
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    65 Revisited

    65 Revisited

    9.333 2007 HD

    A collection of rare outtakes and performances from Pennebaker's 1965 documentary Don't Look Back.

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  • 1995
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    Van Gogh's Ear

    Van Gogh's Ear

    4 1995 HD

    A party hosted by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg inspired the director's award-winning graduation film Van Gogh's Ear, an experimental short featuring the...

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  • 1982
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    Allan ‘n’ Allen’s Complaint

    Allan ‘n’ Allen’s Complaint

    1 1982 HD

    The influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant portrait of two artists....

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  • 1997
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    U2: A Year in Pop

    U2: A Year in Pop

    1 1997 HD

    Documentary about U2's album Pop and following tour.

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  • 1986
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    Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

    Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

    1 1986 HD

    Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography...

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  • 1968
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    Chicago

    Chicago

    1 1968 HD

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

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  • 1969
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    Bed Peace

    Bed Peace

    7 1969 HD

    John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-drawn signs above their bed reading "Bed Peace."...

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  • 2015
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    William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine

    William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine

    1 2015 HD

    Jon Aes-Nihil's experimental documentary about iconic Beat author William S. Burroughs' experiences using a stroboscopic device, known as the dream...

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  • 1979
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    Gay March on Washington

    Gay March on Washington

    1 1979 HD

    UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Documentary from Community Video Center San Diego about the Gay Rights March on...

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  • 1997
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    On the Road to Desolation

    On the Road to Desolation

    1 1997 HD

    Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a...

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  • 1984
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    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes

    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes

    1 1984 HD

    Longtime friends and frequent foils, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appeared onstage together countless times over the years, reading to audiences...

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  • 1979
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    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

    6.5 1979 HD

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  • 1968
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    Yippie

    Yippie

    5.1 1968 HD

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  • 1969
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    Me and My Brother

    Me and My Brother

    6.4 1969 HD

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  • 2013
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    Tropico

    Tropico

    7.9 2013 HD

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  • 2024
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    A Supermarket in Californi

    A Supermarket in Californi

    1 2024 HD

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  • 1997
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    Ballad of the Skeletons

    Ballad of the Skeletons

    6 1997 HD

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  • 1997
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    Ballad of the Skeletons

    Ballad of the Skeletons

    6 1997 HD

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  • 2017
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    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    4 2017 HD

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  • 2020
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    70 Years of Youth Revolt

    70 Years of Youth Revolt

    7.3 2020 HD

    A look back at the social movements, revolts and youth subcultures from the post-war period to the present day: after the World War II, the left-bank...

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  • 1999
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    New York: A Documentary Film

    New York: A Documentary Film

    7.5 1999 HD

    This eight-part, 16½-hour television event explores New York City's rich history as the premier laboratory of modern life. A sweeping...

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  • 1968
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.658 1968 HD

    The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

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