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In 1967, Canadian documentarian James Beveridge traveled to Kolkata to film director Satyajit Ray at work. The resulting program, produced for the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Satyajit Ray

Take This Hammer features KQED's mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Baldwin

A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

Genre: Music

Cast: Martha Graham

In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's "Black Journal" television program—legendary jazz...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alice Coltrane

At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, reporter Karen Dennison...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Truman Capote

A commemoration of the four-year anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, featuring an intimate interview with his wife, Betty Shabazz.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Malcolm X

A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Aldredge

Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Warden

The 1960s black student movement at Duke University evolved into a separate institution to study and engage with the history and culture of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Betty Shabazz

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kenneth A. Gibson

Documentary film about three veterans of the Civil Rights movement who have become peace spokesman for the new opposition activist. It traces their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kwame Ture

Follows the efforts to gain the right to vote for Negroes through a succession of legal decision and social changes. Dramatizes the case of Smith vs....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dr. L. E. Smith

Reconstructs the case of United States vs. Darby Lumber Company, which, in 1941, resolved long struggles over the question of whether Congress had...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Francis Biddle

A series of programs designed for the adult layman who has a curiosity about the skies and the makeup of the universe in which we live. The terms...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James S. Pickering

This program profiles Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, two of pop art's greatest icons. Back-to-back interviews highlight their differences. The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andy Warhol

A documentary that covers issues such as petroleum discovery, distribution of wealth, and new venture planning in Saudi Arabia and United Arab...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sheikh Zayed

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Amiri Baraka

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Prowitt

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow

Piri Thomas, a painter, poet, author, ex-con, and ex-junkie, describes the life of a Puerto Rican in the Spanish Harlem ghetto in New York City.

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Cast: Piri Thomas