Screenplay: James Baldwin

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by James Baldwin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


I Am Not Your Negro

2016 · Documentary · 93 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Peck

Cast James Baldwin

Plot 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...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

6.8

381 votes

If Beale Street Could Talk

2018 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Barry Jenkins

Cast KiKi Layne · Stephan James · Regina King · Diego Luna

Plot Based on the novel by James Baldwin, “If Beale Street Could Talk” follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while...

6.3

4K votes

6.3

4K votes

Freedom from Everything

2022 · Documentary · 87 min. · Canada

Direction Mike Hoolboom

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

Plot 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...

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Stan Lathan

Cast Paul Winfield · James Bond III · Olivia Cole · Roderick Wimberly

Plot This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a...

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