William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic Natio...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

In a film bursting with lyrics, pictures, and music the director shows us a way into the peculiar universe of Tóroddur, and the otherwise not very tal...

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of taboo. In...

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 film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wif...

Beat poem parable to black youth.

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

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest...

The intimate story of a nine-year-old girl living in one of the oldest off-grid communities in the UK. We follow the fledging climate activist as she...

A short documentary about Suspiria by Dario Argento.

Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII became the most decorated unit in American histor...

Like many other young men of his generation, after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Aldo Giannini joined the Marines with little idea of what lay ahead. Aft...

"Monday's Girls" explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young Waikir...

Some years ago, the Palácio de São Bento suddenly shook from visitors singing Zeca Afonso’s 1972 Grândola, Vila Morena in protest against Prime Minist...