Cast: James Baldwin
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Baldwin. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 8
I Am Not Your Negro
2016 · Documentary · 93 min. · United States
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,...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (S)
1970 · Documentary · 26 min. · United Kingdom
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...
6.8
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6.8
50 votes
Freedom from Everything
2022 · Documentary · 87 min. · Canada
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...
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1968 2068 (S)
2018 · Documentary · 7 min. · United States
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.
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Mr. Soul!
2018 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
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...
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Baldwin's Nigger
1968 · Documentary · 46 min. · United Kingdom
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.
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Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man
2003 · Documentary · 52 min. · France
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...
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I Heard It through the Grapevine
1982 · Documentary · 91 min. · United States
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.
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