Cast: James Baldwin

Direction Raoul Peck

Cast James Baldwin

Synopsis In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers,...

Direction Terence Dixon

Cast James Baldwin

Synopsis An extremely rare film document photographed by Jack Hazan (Rude Boy, A Bigger Splash) in several symbolic locations, including the Place de la Bastille. As Hazan recounts: “Things don’t go to plan for him and the film crew when a...

Direction Mike Hoolboom

Cast Margaret Thatcher · Guy Fawkes · George Michael · James Baldwin

Synopsis Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by neoliberalism and its central mythology of personal freedom, brilliantly laid out in Hito Steyerl’s essay gem “Freedom from Everything” which is...

Direction Keisha Witherspoon

Cast Spiro Agnew · James Baldwin · Aretha Franklin

Synopsis Drawing on literary excerpts from the book Black Quantum Futurism: Theory and Practice, 1968 2068 is a meditation on cyclical and linear time theory, memory and trauma.

Direction Melissa Haizlip · Samuel D. Pollard

Cast Ellis Haizlip · Sidney Poitier · Harry Belafonte · Anna Maria Horsford

Synopsis Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. Soul. “Soul!” was a U.S. public television arts and chat show that ran from 1968 to 1973 created and hosted by Ellis Haizlip. On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless...

Direction Horace Ové

Cast James Baldwin · Dick Gregory

Synopsis Documentary of James Baldwin and Dick Gregory discussing the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Great Britian.

Direction Gonzague Pichelin · Benjamin Sutherland

Cast George Whitman · Sylvia Whitman · James Baldwin · Sylvia Beach

Synopsis In 1951, George Whitman opened a bookshop-commune in Paris. George, 92, still runs his "den of anarchists disguised as a bookstore," offering free, dirty beds to poor literati, cutting his hair with a candle and gluing the carpet with pancake...

Direction Dick Fontaine

Cast James Baldwin · David Baldwin · Amiri Baraka · Chinua Achebe

Synopsis On the trail of the civil rights movement: with typical astuteness and charisma, James Baldwin returns to key locations of protest in the American South and sees old injustices repeated in new legal frameworks.