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51. He! Viva Dada (1965)
39 min | Documentary, Short
Report from the second free-expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by "théâtre panique/the panic ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Michel Humeau | Stars: Fernando Arrabal, Jose Denoblet, Allen Ginsberg, Alejandro Jodorowsky
52. The Fall (1969)
116 min | Documentary, Music
An extraordinary piece of filmmaking, an extremely personal statement on violence, revolution and the turbulence within late sixties America.
Director: Peter Whitehead | Stars: Peter Whitehead, Alberta Tiburzi, Angelo Mannsraven, Coral Atkins
Votes: 70
53. It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen (1985)
Drama
An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer.
Director: Jacob Burckhardt | Stars: William S. Burroughs, Reed Bye, Vincent D'Onofrio, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 53
54. Johnny Minotaur (1971)
X | 80 min | Adult, Drama
Surrealist poet and artist Charles Henri Ford's 1971 film, Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, inter-generational desire, pan-sexuality and auto-eroticism are a few of... See full summary »
Director: Charles Henri Ford | Stars: Yiannis Koutsis, Nikos Koulizakis, Chuzzer Miles, Shelley Scott
Votes: 26
55. Kerouac, the Movie (1984)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Jack Kerouac was a Beat Generation writer who took the nation by storm upon the publication of his novel On the Road. Kerouac's legacy and influence are explained via interviews with ... See full summary »
Director: John Antonelli | Stars: Peter Coyote, Jack Coulter, Cindy Alwan, David Andrews
Votes: 226
56. Birth of a Nation (1997)
85 min | Documentary
Mekas leads an archival avant-garde, a fast-paced parade of 160 underground film people he captured on film over four decades, described as, "160 portraits or rather appearances, sketches ... See full summary »
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder, Bruce Baillie
Votes: 106
57. Condo Painting (2000)
86 min | Documentary
Director: John McNaughton | Stars: Patrick Achdjian, William S. Burroughs, Anna Condo, Eleonore Condo
Votes: 80 | Gross: $0.01M
58. Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally (1972)
PG | 78 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary about political activist John Sinclair.
Director: Steve Gebhardt | Stars: Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 24
59. Drug-Taking and the Arts (1993)
120 min | Documentary, Drama
How drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.
Director: Storm Thorgerson | Stars: Bernard Hill, Phil Daniels, Thom Booker, Patrick Barlow
Votes: 77
60. Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (1990)
38 min | Documentary, Short
The pioneer of the American diary film presents footage of his avant garde colleague shot between 1963 and 1990.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Andy Warhol, John Cale, Allen Ginsberg, Mick Jagger
Votes: 427
61. Scene at 6:30 (1963– )
Music, News
Stars: Brian Armstrong, Paul McCartney, Michael Parkinson, Ringo Starr
62. Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984 TV Special)
38 min | Short, Music
The first international satellite 'video installation' by South Korean-born American artist Nam June Paik, often credited with inventing video art. It occurred on New Year's Day, 1984. Filled with music and poetry performances.
Directors: Nam June Paik, Emile Ardolino, Paul Garrin | Stars: Laurie Anderson, John Avila, Tom Bailey, Steve Bartek
Votes: 6
63. Rock & Roll (1995– )
Documentary, Music
A history of rock and roll music.
Stars: Liev Schreiber, David Bowie, Robbie Robertson, Debbie Harry
Votes: 86
64. My Generation (2000)
103 min | Documentary, Music
Directors: Thomas Haneke, Barbara Kopple | Stars: Aerosmith, Dickey Betts, Blues Traveler, Joe Cocker
Votes: 165
65. Kopaszkutya (1981)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A Hungarian band plays American rock & roll and blues hits with great enthusiasm and passion, but success seems to avoid them. TV and radio don't play their songs, sometimes even their ... See full synopsis »
Director: György Szomjas | Stars: Gyula Deák Bill, László Földes, József Körös, István Mareczky
Votes: 639
66. Road Scholar (1993)
PG | 82 min | Documentary
Andrei Cordescu, NPR journalist, Romanian immigrant, naturalized American citizen, and newly-licensed driver, sets out on a cross- country road trip. He travels from-sea-to-shining-sea in a... See full summary »
Director: Roger Weisberg | Stars: Andrei Codrescu, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 142 | Gross: $0.59M
67. Silence = Death (1990)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Bern Boyle, Emilio Cubeiro, Rafael Gamba, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 69
68. Man Alive (1967– )
30 min | Documentary
Man Alive was a weekly CBC Television documentary series that debuted in 1967 and last aired in December 2000.
Stars: Roy Bonisteel, Arthur Kent, Marilyn Lightstone, Warren Davis
Votes: 9
69. Corso: The Last Beat (2009)
Documentary
Following Beat Poet Gregory Corso - literary compatriot of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs -- throughout Europe, discovering his past, and facing his death.
Director: Gustave Reininger | Stars: Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ethan Hawke
Votes: 28
70. Mahagonny (1980)
Unrated | 141 min
A mathematical analysis of Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass, expressed in terms of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
Director: Harry Smith | Stars: Rose Feliu-Pettet, Allen Ginsberg, Lotte Lenya, Jonas Mekas
Votes: 31
71. The Beat Generation: An American Dream (1988)
Unrated | 86 min | Documentary, History
An investigation of the Beat Generation.
Director: Janet Forman | Stars: Steve Allen, David Amram, Amiri Baraka, Ray Bremser
Votes: 46
72. Growing Up in America (1988)
90 min | Documentary, History
Documentary on 1960s radicals in the U.S.A.
Director: Morley Markson | Stars: Don Cox, Allen Ginsberg, Fred Hampton Jr., Fred Hampton
Votes: 47
73. Poetry in Motion (1982)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Several also comment. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem.... See full summary »
Director: Ron Mann | Stars: Helen Adam, Miguel Algarín, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan
Votes: 174
74. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg Deluxe Set (2008)
Not Rated | 680 min | Documentary
For 25 years, Academy Award-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 120 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America's greatest... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Aronson | Stars: Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs, Dick Cavett
Votes: 44
75. Prologue (I) (1970)
87 min | Drama
Presents the rival philosophies of young people, militant protest or communal retreat, set against the political upheaval of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Director: Robin Spry | Stars: John Robb, Elaine Malus, Gary Rader, Peter Cullen
Votes: 21
76. It Was 20 Years Ago Today (1987)
104 min | Documentary, Music
An examination of the classic rock album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the year of its debut, 1967.
Director: John Sheppard | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Steve Abrams, Peter Berg, Leonard Bernstein
Votes: 111
77. The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (2007)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Prepare for an eclectic journey through The Old, Weird America. Rani Singh's new documentary film tracks the history of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial ... See full summary »
Director: Rani Singh | Stars: Beck, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, David Johansen
Votes: 44
78. Allen Ginsberg: The Ballad of the Skeletons (1997 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Director: Gus Van Sant | Star: Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 205
79. Face to Face (1994–1998)
45 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Jeremy Isaacs, Steven Spielberg, Billy Connolly, Ken Loach
Votes: 15
80. A Poet on the Lower East Side: A Docu-Diary on Allen Ginsberg (1997)
96 min | Documentary
Two writers from the opposite ends of the world share a meeting of the minds. Hungarian poet and translator István Eörsi journeys to New York City to meet literary legend Allen Ginsberg. ... See full summary »
Director: Gyula Gazdag | Stars: Gregory Corso, István Eörsi, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky
Votes: 21
81. The Les Crane Show (1964–1965)
90 min | Talk-Show
The Les Crane Show, was a late-night talk show up against Johnny Carson of The Tonight Show. Les Crane was known as the bad boy of late night, bringing together controversial guests with ... See full summary »
Stars: Les Crane, Marta Curro, Orson Bean, Alexander King
Votes: 32
82. Wholly Communion (1966)
33 min | Documentary, Short
A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitehead | Stars: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael Horovitz, Gregory Corso, Harry Fainlight
Votes: 108
83. Underground New York (1968)
51 min | Documentary
"A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York "underground" in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by... See full summary »
Director: Gideon Bachmann | Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Gideon Bachmann, Allen Ginsberg, Jonas Mekas
84. Norman Mailer: The American (2010)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
The life and times of Norman Mailer as told through the people that knew him personally.
Director: Joseph Mantegna | Stars: Jack Abbott, Muhammad Ali, Nicole Barrett, Beverly Bentley
Votes: 55
85. Speak Out (2007 TV Movie)
Director: Manolo Cañete | Stars: William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Peter Coyote, Paola Giachero
86. Galaxie (1966)
82 min
In 1966, Gregory Markopoulos filmed portraits of notable figures in the New York art world, including painters, poets, critics, filmmakers, and choreographers. Markopoulos populated his ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos | Stars: Parker Tyler, Storm De Hirsch, Amy Taubin, Donald Droll
Votes: 22
87. Thot-Fal'N (1978)
9 min | Short
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Jane Wodening, Tom Bartek, Gloria Bartek, William S. Burroughs
Votes: 68
88. Twister: A Musical Catastrophe (2000 Video)
128 min | Action, Comedy
The major characters in "Twister" faces turn-of-the-twenty-first-century crises in the world today: The Hungry Wind, The Lonely Virus, and The Restless Earth, which deal, respectively, with... See full summary »
Director: Ken Kesey | Stars: Phil Deitz, George Walker, Arzinia Richarson, Ken Kesey
Votes: 27
89. Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1998)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Jennifer Baichwal | Stars: Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Cherifa, Mohammed Choukri
Votes: 133 | Gross: $0.01M
90. Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Felver | Stars: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper, Billy Collins
Votes: 50 | Gross: $0.00M
91. Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider (1994)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Filmed in Morocco and featuring exclusive interviews with cultural icons such as Allen Ginsberg, PAUL BOWLES: THE COMPLETE OUTSIDER explores the esoteric life of the man who wrote the The ... See full summary »
Directors: Catherine Warnow, Regina Weinrich | Stars: Paul Bowles, Edouard Roditi, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
Votes: 43
92. What's Happening? (1967 TV Movie)
93 min | Documentary
Director: Antonello Branca | Stars: Marie Benois, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Leon Kraushar
Votes: 15
93. West Coast Beat and Beyond (1984)
60 min | Documentary
San Francisco's bohemian history was augmented by the renaissance of creative individuals which began there in the late 1950's. The most significant influences in this movement were Beat ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Felver | Stars: Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman
94. United States of Poetry (1995– )
Documentary
Stars: Johnny Depp, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Jack Kerouac
Votes: 40
95. William Carlos Williams (1986)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Focuses on the life and career of American poet and physician William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), who was closely associated with modernism and imagism.
Director: Richard P. Rogers | Stars: Robert M. Coles, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh Kenner, James Laughlin
96. Greetings from Washington, D.C. (1981)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Greetings from Washington DC was a short documentary about the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on Sunday, October 14th 1979.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Frances Reid, Greta Schiller, Lucy Winer | Stars: Rob Epstein, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Jan Oxenberg
Votes: 14
97. William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine (2015 Video)
70 min | Documentary
The Dreamachine, invented in 1959 by poet Brion Gysin and mathematician Ian Sommerville, is possibly the most effective of all brainwave simulators, triggering mental aberrations that are ... See full summary »
Director: John Aes-Nihil | Stars: John Aes-Nihil, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, David Woodard
Votes: 8
98. Sleep in a Nest of Flames (2001)
118 min | Documentary, Biography
Charles Henri Ford was an openly gay poet/writer/filmmaker/magazine publisher who led a long and interesting life. He started by reading his poetry in one of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. ... See full summary »
Directors: James Dowell, John Kolomvakis | Stars: Eric M. Cole, Val Oisteneau, Rich Bernatovech, Paul Bowles
99. William Blake Part I: Innocence and Experience (1970 TV Movie)
29 min | Documentary
Director: Aram Boyajian | Stars: Allen Ginsberg, Gilbert Hodges
100. Jonas in the Desert (1994)
130 min | Documentary
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
Director: Peter Sempel | Stars: Diahnne Abbott, Kenneth Anger, Jochen Arbeit, Stanley Bard
Votes: 77