Allen Ginsberg
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Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his t...
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The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
New York
Self - Commentator
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Self (archive footage)
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Self (archive footage)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
Self
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
How the Beatles Changed the World
Self (archive footage)
Howl
Self
Filmography
Nova '78
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
2026
as Self
ALLEN & AI
2026
May Day x 4
2026
as Self
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2025
as Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
as Self (archive footage)
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025
as Self - poet
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024
as Self (archive footage)
A Supermarket in California
2024
as Self (voice) (archive)
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Why Is We Americans?
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Velvet Underground
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020
as Self (voice) (archive)
70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
as The Oracle of Delphi
Take Your Pills
2018
as Self (archive footage)
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
2018
as Self
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017
as Self (archive footage)
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015
as Self (archive footage)
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
2015
as Self (archive footage)
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Beat Generation
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The Beat Hotel
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Howl
2010
as Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008
as Self (archive footage)
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
as Self (archive footage)
65 Revisited
2007
as Self (archive footage)
To John With Love
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Poets at the Living Theater
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
2006
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
as Self
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
as Self (archive footage)
American Magus
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The Cockettes
2002
as Self (archive footage)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Condo Painting
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999
as Self (archive footage)
The Source
1999
as Self (archive footage)
New York
1999
as Self - Commentator
Brakhage
1998
as Self (archive footage)
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997
as Self
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday to John
1997
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
as Self
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997
as Self
U2: A Year in Pop
1997
as Self
On the Road to Desolation
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Van Gogh's Ear
1995
as Self
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
1994
as Self
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Jonas in the Desert
1994
as Self
Moving Pictures
1994
as Self
An Autumn Wind
1994
as Self
Road Scholar
1993
as Self
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990
as Self
Silence = Death
1990
as Self
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
1990
as Self
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
1989
as Self
Heavy Petting
1989
as Self
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1989
as Self
Growing Up in America
1989
as Self
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
1988
as Self
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
1987
as Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Autumn Ritual
1986
as Self
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986
as Self
All Star Video
1985
as Self (archive footage)
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
1985
as Lawyer
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984
as Self
Burroughs: The Movie
1984
as Self
Before Stonewall
1984
as Self
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
1984
as Self
This Song for Jack
1983
as Self
Poetry in Motion
1982
as Self
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1982
as Self
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981
as Self
La marche gaie
1980
as Self
Lake Placid '80
1980
as Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
as Self
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1980
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979
as Self
Gay March on Washington
1979
as Self
Renaldo and Clara
1978
as The Father
Thot-Fal'N
1978
as Self
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1977
as Self
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
as Self
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1976
Suite 212
1974
as Self
We Can't Go Home Again
1973
as Allen
Global Groove
1973
as Self
Pickup's Tricks
1973
as Self
Ciao! Manhattan
1973
as Self
Johnny Minotaur
1971
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971
as Self
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971
as Self
Me and My Brother
1969
as Self
The Fall
1969
as Self
Bed Peace
1969
as Self
A.G.
1968
as Self
Yippie
1968
as Self
Underground New York
1968
as Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Chicago
1968
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967
as Self (uncredited)
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
as Self
Ah, Sunflower
1967
as Self
Be-In
1967
as Self
Herostratus
1967
as Poet (voice)
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1967
as Self (archive footage)
Hare Krishna
1967
as Self
Joan of Arc
1967
as Self
Anatomy of Violence
1967
as Self
Chappaqua
1966
as Messiah
Galaxie
1966
as Self
Wholly Communion
1965
as Self
Dylan Speaks
1965
as Self (archive footage)
He! Viva Dada
1965
as Self
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
as Self
Allan for Allan
1965
as Self
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
Couch
1964
as Self
Guns of the Trees
1961
as Self (voice)
Pull My Daisy
1959
as Alan