As the Western world becomes casually more and more accepting of and interested in the principles of Buddhism, this...
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2011
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The curious life of controversial avant-garde author and Beat poet William S. Burroughs serves as the subject of this...
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2010
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of America's best known and most respected poets, a major figure of the Beat poetry scene of the...
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2009
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With his documentary Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, director Matt Wolf etches out a biographical portrait of...
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2008
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In 1955, poet Allen Ginsberg summed up the greatest fears of his generation in a landmark poem appropriately titled "Howl."...
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2004
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2004
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This is a documentary chronicling the life of Charles Henri Ford (now in his nineties and still as alert as ever), a pivotal...
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2001
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2001
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2000
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Expatriate American writer Paul Bowles came to the limelight with an adaptation to screen by Bernardo Bertolucci of his first...
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1999
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With the Civil War settled, New York could focus solely on the business of business and getting rich. Central Park finally...
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1999
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New York of the 19th century was already a haven of celebrities; showman P.T. Barnum's museum drew crowds on Broadway, and up...
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1999
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Calling Prohibition a "noble experiment," New York congressman Fiorello La Guardia then declared the law unenforceable....
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1999
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1999
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The "Big Apple" has a colorful, influential, and, at times, tragic history that spans nearly four hundred years. This is the...
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1999
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Directed by William Tyler Smith, The Third Mind is a video montage of images, poetry, and music that chronicles the artistic...
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1999
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It was the fire that sparked reform; after 146 people -- mostly women and girls -- died in the ferocious 1911 blaze that...
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1999
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Allen Ginsberg was one of the leading voices of American poetry from 1956, when he published his ground-breaking piece Howl,...
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1997
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Jack Kerouac penned such books as On the Road and The Dharma Bums, which captured the essence of the bohemian life that he...
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1994
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Evidently shot over a decade, this documentary portrait of Lithuanian-born filmmaker-poet Jonas Mekas examines his life and...
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1994
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1994
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Poet and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu was born in Romania, immigrated to the United States in 1966, but...
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1993
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The once highly controversial Walt Whitman book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, is set to music in Paul Joe Heist's...
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1992
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Fascinating documentary of artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol, combining rare footage with interviews with his friends and...
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1990
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Berkeley in the Sixties takes a fond, if not always loving, look back at the epicenter of leftist political activism during...
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1990
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Those of us who had to suffer such "instructional" films as Dating Do's and Don'ts in high school will be especially...
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1989
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This documentary by filmmaker Maria Beatty explores the lives, careers, and creative inspirations of the beat poets, forging...
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1989
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Director Morley Markson interviews political radicals of the 1960s in this informative social documentary. Twenty years after...
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1988
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In the U.S., in the 1950s, contemporary jazz was becoming more and more esoteric, and a small group of writers, poets and...
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1987
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This biographical documentary tackles the legend of Jack Kerouac, one of the foremost writers of the Beat Generation. Kerouac...
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1986
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The comedy and thrills are a little anemic in this movie based on a real-life experience of director Jacob Burckhardt. Warren...
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Sidney the Lawyer
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1985
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This documentary by Greta Schiller takes a look at the sometimes oblique American acknowledgment of homosexuals in the...
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1984
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1984
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1983
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This documentary takes a look at the history of the beat movement, a revolution in culture and art that germinated in San...
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1982
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Director Ron Mann has put together readings by 24 different poets (after filming a total of 60 writers reciting their works),...
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1982
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After World War II there was a group of young men -- writers primarily -- who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the...
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1982
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Bob Dylan made this concert film that chronicles a 1975/1976 performance of his Rolling Thunder Revue. In between songs he,...
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1978
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The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview...
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1971
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Underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas presents a collection of home movies, outtakes and unfinished projects. A picnic in...
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1970
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Produced on behalf of the National Film Board of Canada, Prologue is a story of the youth-rebellion movement of 1968. The...
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1969
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This documentary about poet Peter Orlovsky's schizophrenic brother, Julius, is a film within a film and is generally regarded...
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1968
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In 1965, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker accompanied Bob Dylan to England to make a film about the singer/songwriter's British...
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1967
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The bizarre hallucinations of a heroin addict in withdrawal provide the basis for this unstructured, autobiographical film by...
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Messiah
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1966
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1965
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1964
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Robert Frank's half-hour, black-and-white short film Pull My Daisy has also been released under the title...
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1959
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