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2023
James Baldwin Abroad
James Baldwin Abroad10 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
Madonna: Madame X
Madonna: Madame X7.5 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
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
Target: St. Louis Vol. 10 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
Baldwin's Nigger
Baldwin's Nigger6.6 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
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket1.5 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
Public Speaking
Public Speaking7 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
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues6.9 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
Take This Hammer
Take This Hammer10 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
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
I Heard It Through the Grapevine0 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
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village0 1962 HD
James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.
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Cast: James Baldwin
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1973
James Baldwin: From Another Place
James Baldwin: From Another Place6.5 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
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else0 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...
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Cast: James Baldwin
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1985
The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty6.7 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
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley0 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
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis7 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
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade0 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
The Madding Crowd
The Madding Crowd0 2017 HD
"A great many conundrums." An assemblage of found footage.
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Cast: James Baldwin
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1971
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris7.1 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
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
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.7 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
i ran from it and was still in it
i ran from it and was still in it6 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
The James Baldwin Anthology
The James Baldwin Anthology0 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
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision0 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
Toc Storee
Toc Storee0 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
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.7 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
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
I Heard It Through the Grapevine0 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
James Baldwin Abroad
James Baldwin Abroad10 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
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk6.933 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
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
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain5 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