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  • 2023
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    James Baldwin Abroad

    James Baldwin Abroad

    10 2023 HD

    Showcasing three short films by American writer James Baldwin, wherein he muses about race, sexuality and civil rights, among other topics, in...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 2021
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    Madonna: Madame X

    Madonna: Madame X

    7.5 2021 HD

    Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal, the film captures the pop icon’s rare and rapturous tour performance, hailed by sold out theatrical audiences...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Madonna

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  • 2018
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    Target: St. Louis Vol. 1

    Target: St. Louis Vol. 1

    0 2018 HD

    TARGET ST. LOUIS Vol. 1© tells the story of how the United State Military conducted secret chemical testing on citizens of St. Louis's...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 1968
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    Baldwin's Nigger

    Baldwin's Nigger

    6.6 1968 HD

    James Baldwin and Dick Gregory discuss the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Great Britain.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 2010
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    Public Speaking

    Public Speaking

    7 2010 HD

    A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Fran Lebowitz

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  • 2022
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    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    6.9 2022 HD

    An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Louis Armstrong

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  • 1964
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    Take This Hammer

    Take This Hammer

    10 1964 HD

    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

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  • 1982
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    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    0 1982 HD

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

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 1962
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    James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

    James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

    0 1962 HD

    James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.

    Genre:

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 1973
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    James Baldwin: From Another Place

    James Baldwin: From Another Place

    6.5 1973 HD

    In Istanbul, American writer James Baldwin muses about race, the American fascination with sexuality, insights into his interrupted writing decade in...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 2014
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    A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

    A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

    0 2014 HD

    "A person is more important than anything else…," is driven by the cadence and intonation of James Baldwin’s voice, for Baldwin was also...

    Genre:

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 1985
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    The Statue of Liberty

    The Statue of Liberty

    6.7 1985 HD

    For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and...

    Genre: History

    Cast: David McCullough

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  • 1965
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    Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

    Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

    0 1965 HD

    The Cambridge Union Society debates the motion "Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?" on its 150th anniversary....

    Genre: History

    Cast: William F. Buckley Jr.

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  • 1970
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    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    7 1970 HD

    Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Martin Luther King Jr.

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  • 2020
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    De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

    De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

    0 2020 HD

    Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Abdias Nascimento

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  • 2017
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    The Madding Crowd

    The Madding Crowd

    0 2017 HD

    "A great many conundrums." An assemblage of found footage.

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    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 1971
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    Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

    Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

    7.1 1971 HD

    In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 2018
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    Mr. SOUL!

    Mr. SOUL!

    7 2018 HD

    On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ellis Haizlip

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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.7 2017 HD

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Samuel L. Jackson

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  • 2021
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    i ran from it and was still in it

    i ran from it and was still in it

    6 2021 HD

    I ran from it and was still in it poetically interweaves personal family memories with original and found footage to offer a more complex portrait of...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 2003
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    The James Baldwin Anthology

    The James Baldwin Anthology

    0 2003 HD

    The James Baldwin Anthology consists of internationally known writer James Baldwin's historic speech at UC Berkeley in 1979, his answers in a...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 2018
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    Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

    Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

    0 2018 HD

    A documentary profile of 3-time Pulitzer winning author Robert Penn Warren, featuring Harold Bloom, David Blight, Natasha Trethewey, David Milch,...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Robert Penn Warren

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  • 1992
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    Toc Storee

    Toc Storee

    0 1992 HD

    The film utilizes the story-telling format to create a multilevel narrative that explores the relations between speech, language, and desire....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.7 2017 HD

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Samuel L. Jackson

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  • 1982
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    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    0 1982 HD

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

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 2023
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    James Baldwin Abroad

    James Baldwin Abroad

    10 2023 HD

    Showcasing three short films by American writer James Baldwin, wherein he muses about race, sexuality and civil rights, among other topics, in...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Baldwin

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  • 2018
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    If Beale Street Could Talk

    If Beale Street Could Talk

    6.933 2018 HD

    After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: KiKi Layne

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  • 2022
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    Brother, Where Are You?

    Brother, Where Are You?

    10 2022 HD

    Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Troy Maxwell G. Blakey

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  • 1985
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    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    5 1985 HD

    This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Paul Winfield

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