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

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

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

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

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

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

A portrait of Norwegian poet Odd Børretzen in his own words, featuring musical highlights from Børre...

In a film bursting with lyrics, pictures, and music the director shows us a way into the peculiar un...

Howl is an homage to the reading rituals of the Beat poets, to Wholly Communion, to 1965, to Allen G...

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

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons ...
The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is tol...

After the funeral of his wife, a man tries to reconcile with his estranged daughter.