Writer
Amiri Baraka
92 years · Newark, New Jersey, USA · 26 films
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Best known for
Filmography 26
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025 · Self - poet
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009 · Self
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 · Self
On OVID
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008 · Himself
Return to Gorée
2007 · Self
Turn Me On
2007 · Self
Poets at the Living Theater
2006 · Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006 · Self
The Pact
2006 · Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 · Himself
Bulworth
1998 · Rastaman
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997 · Self
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996 · Self, Writer
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989 · Self
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987 · Himself
Speaking in Tongues
1982 · Actor
Poetry in Motion
1982 · Self
On Kanopy
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982 · Self
Death of a Prophet
1981 · Actor
On Plex
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978 · Self
Medea
1973 · Writer
Nationtime: Gary
1972 · Self, Writer
On Kanopy
1 P.M.
1971 · Self
A Fable
1971 · Screenplay