Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.
An emblematic figure in the defense of Berber culture, Mouloud Mammeri (1917-1989) experienced numer...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
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Directed by Rachel Viollet, and featuring interviews with soccer legends; Sir Alex Ferguson, Bryan R...
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"The Undefeated Femininity" - a film about Gun Grut Bergman. In September 1949 Ingmar Bergman left h...
Documentary about the work of photographer Alair Gomes, one of the first artists to introduce male n...
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gol...
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Documentary on Belgian director of greek descent Jean Daskalidès.
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