James Baldwin
Birthday: 1924-08-02
Place of Birth: Harlem, New York, USA
Biography: James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
Movies
James Baldwin Abroad
Showcasing three short films by American writer James Baldwin, wherein he muses about race, sexualit...
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Madonna: Madame X
Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal, the film captures the pop icon’s rare and rapturous tour performance, ha...
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Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
TARGET ST. LOUIS Vol. 1© tells the story of how the United State Military conducted secret chemical ...
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Baldwin's Nigger
James Baldwin and Dick Gregory discuss the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Great Britain....
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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two...
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Public Speaking
Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp ...
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life...
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Take This Hammer
Take This Hammer features KQED's mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin in the...
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement,...
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James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism....
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James Baldwin: From Another Place
In Istanbul, American writer James Baldwin muses about race, the American fascination with sexuality...
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A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
"A person is more important than anything else…," is driven by the cadence and intonation of James B...
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The Statue of Liberty
For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations ...
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Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
The Cambridge Union Society debates the motion "Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense ...
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning w...
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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and ...
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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin se...
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Mr. SOUL!
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissan...
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i ran from it and was still in it
I ran from it and was still in it poetically interweaves personal family memories with original and ...
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The James Baldwin Anthology
The James Baldwin Anthology consists of internationally known writer James Baldwin's historic speech...
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Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
A documentary profile of 3-time Pulitzer winning author Robert Penn Warren, featuring Harold Bloom, ...
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The Negro and the American Promise
Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin -- three of the most highly regarded civil righ...
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The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
The Black Contribution – Literature and Theater 1978 is a rare documentary highlighting the voices a...
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The New Yorker at 100
Hard-hitting journalism. Era-defining fiction. Witty cartoons. The New Yorker marks its 100th annive...
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