James Baldwin Movies

  • 2018
    Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

    Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

    Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

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    A documentary profile of 3-time Pulitzer winning author Robert Penn Warren, featuring Harold Bloom, David Blight, Natasha Trethewey, David Milch,...

    Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
  • 2020
    De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

    De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

    De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

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    Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European...

    De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
  • 1962
    James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

    James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

    James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

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    James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.

    James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
  • 2021
    i ran from it and was still in it

    i ran from it and was still in it

    i ran from it and was still in it

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    I ran from it and was still in it poetically interweaves personal family memories with original and found footage to offer a more complex portrait of...

    i ran from it and was still in it
  • 1964
    Take This Hammer

    Take This Hammer

    Take This Hammer

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    Take This Hammer features KQED's mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San...

    Take This Hammer
  • 1965
    Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

    Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

    Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

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    The Cambridge Union Society debates the motion "Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?" on its 150th anniversary....

    Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
  • 2014
    A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

    A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

    A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

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    "A person is more important than anything else…," is driven by the cadence and intonation of James Baldwin’s voice, for Baldwin was also...

    A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
  • 1992
    Toc Storee

    Toc Storee

    Toc Storee

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    The film utilizes the story-telling format to create a multilevel narrative that explores the relations between speech, language, and desire....

    Toc Storee
  • 2003
    The James Baldwin Anthology

    The James Baldwin Anthology

    The James Baldwin Anthology

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    The James Baldwin Anthology consists of internationally known writer James Baldwin's historic speech at UC Berkeley in 1979, his answers in a...

    The James Baldwin Anthology