Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poison...

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the fi...

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, an...

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac...

Jack Kerouac returns to earth as an angel with the goal of changing the life of a struggling writer.

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Hu...

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including All...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attac...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end o...
Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a poet, writer, publisher and playwright whose work has been associat...

Tells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg an...

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemp...

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and...