Allen Ginsberg

Renowned director Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan chronicles the career of the singer and songwriter during the tumultuous years between 1961 and 1966. Dylan allowed Scorsese to have access to hours of footage that had never before been made public, including a number of live performances, and footage of Dylan in the recording studio creating some of his landmark albu...

In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.

Director Matt Wolf's critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992. The film blends archival footage with illuminating interview segments featuring some of Russell's colleagues and most notable collaborators, including poet Allen Ginsberg, composer Philip Glass and indie pop sensation Jens Lekman.

This documentary features a discussion between David Woodward and William S. Burrough at LACMA and the last known footage of the author at his home.

A celebration of the life and career of the poet, painter, and iconoclast whose forceful societal engagements helped shape a cultural revolution.

When Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs met at Columbia University in the 1940s, they spawned a movement, then called the Beats, that set precedents for the political, hippie and spiritual movements of the 1960s and ‘70s. This comprehensive portrait of the Beat Generation includes interviews with virtually every surviving figure from this period. Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper and John Turturro perform dramatized readings of works by Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg. The Source is the definitive film portrait of the Beat Generation and the countercultural movements that followed, directed with flair by Academy Award® winner Chuck Workman.

A fresh look at Chogyam Trungpa, known for making Buddhist concepts accessible to Westerners and facing adversity from the Tibetan establishment.

An entertaining and salacious exploration documentary about sex in 1950s through the eyes of a generation that lived through the Sexual Revolution.

A provocateur, a rebel, a performer and notorious anarchist, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. Containing never-seen-before material, this shocking documentary goes beyond the Mailer of the bookshelves and bestseller lists to reveal the social critic, filmmaker, family man and lover, giving a rare and unique insight into an intellectual man and villainous hero.

An informal portrait of the controversial American author William S. Burroughs, featuring interviews and vintage film footage.

Academy Award nominee and well-loved classic. A defining film about the protest movements of the 1960s. From the Free Speech Movement to anti-war protests, the counter-culture, womens lib and the rise of the Black Panthers, the era is captured in all its immediacy and passion thru dramatic archival film, compelling interviews and 18 songs from the Grateful Dead, Jim Hendrix, Joan Baez and more.

Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.