Amiri Baraka Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

A suite of rarely seen, unreleased films by the poet, activist, and scholar Amiri Baraka.

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